a new road....

it's once again been an astonishing long time since I've posted a blog entry.  ugh....  I hate to write unless there is something blog worthy. facebook captured a few key moments and  our entire last year in Malawi, Africa flew by with my teaching Year 3 at St. Andrews Int'l Primary ( and my first stint in working full time since before marriage and kids), Ben and Anna attending school there and being happily busy with friends and activities ( most likely here in the usa our kids won't be in after school " play with orphans" club and we are all missing the abundant life of swimming outdoors year round) , Louisa beginning the secondary school and loving it and Stefan working hard to keep the Jesus Cares program to the disabled in Malawi afloat. The majority of his last 6 months entailed a massive relief and aid distribution after severe flooding a year ago. Just in Blantyre alone we went 12 days without water and very little electricity. We also enjoyed a few more volunteer VBS teams and sang, danced and shared God's word with literally hundreds of beautiful Malawian children and then sadly that chapter closed in our lives but we are feeling thankful for the time that God gave us for such an experience - again.  Read previous posts which detail a few events in our lives in both Africa and Germany.
and now? well we live in Kansas.  And when we're not soaking up family time or planning, planting and tending to our little acre, we are a preschool director and a work production supervisor to the disabled and we have lots of stories from felgsafar to share which sometimes come bubbling out.  I don't intend to make this a blog detailing our transition, again, from country to country but I imagine bits of it will sneak out at times. Repatriation....a story in and of itself.   Mostly I hope to share the beginnings of a tiny little homestead - hardly self sufficient - no where near what I imagine it to be in my mind or my pinterest pins.  But it's something and I love that we are doing it. So grab a coffee or a glass of wine and join me along another road the Lord has opened up for us.  I DO intend to write a book one day - perhaps a series ( the path of life series it'll be called) about all the different roads we've been on.  But for now......it's just this new road and "the little acre that could"