on the edge of ordinary

One of my jobs with our mission's social media is to come up with media posts, especially the text-parts. That sounds easier than it som...

This year has been one filled with pain for many. One particular struggle has been the uncertainty and difficulty in making plans. We've...

This morning I'm blogging from the airport. Again! I'm in shock, actually. I've never gotten to a boarding gate for an internati...

"Making it up as you go." Yep, that's what we're doing! Often parenting as a missionary feels like you are all alone ...

In the ongoing saga of transitioning our eldest son to the next stage of his life, we've had unexpected news.  Good news. Unexpected, ...

This is a map on a wall at school. Marked are all the places that the seniors who graduated from the Christian Academy in Japan in June pla...

The thing that has been looming for the last few years is getting closer all the time: the day our eldest moves to Australia. I feel like we...

Following on from yesterday's post , this morning our eldest son did an American test called the SAT. It is a test needed to standardize...

I came across this interesting webpage , it's aimed at people looking at higher education in the UK and USA and comes up with some enlig...

Yesterday I witnessed and signed some papers for some friends. They're returning to their home country for an unspecified period of time...

This is another couple of questions that we're repeatedly answering: "What is your eldest son going to do after he finishes schoo...

Just wanted to share some photos with you today (especially as the computer and Blogger are cooperating with me on this front). Today w...

Saturday Well the weekend slipped away from me and I never did get back here. Our Saturday mornings are generally taken up with wrestling t...