I think Thanksgiving might be my favorite holiday. And the more guests the merrier! The R.S.V.P.s just kept rolling in and then 5 strangers knocked on the door. Our final headcount was around 28! Miika rolled up the sets of silverware… Good job! Everyone started arriving promptly at 5pm. It was the most wonderful day! [...]

These past 2 weeks have been a blast! On November 4, we had 14 ladies at our evening workshop making fingerless gloves, hats, legwarmers and so much more. We were so busy I only took 2 photos! And I can’t show them because our female Muslim students took off their head coverings which they wouldn’t [...]

On any given Saturday, if we are home doing chores, we are also tuned in to PBS watching cooking shows. Miika is a little ambivalent but not Nathan. He is a cook. If I’m folding laundry, he’ll pull the socks out of the basket and start chopping (pretend) and stirring them with his eyes glued [...]