Day 3: Marshmallows and a Med-evac

July 24, 2023

This post was originally published on July 22, 2021 at https://thekresges.com/2021/07/22/day-3-marshmallows-and-a-med-evac/. I’ve never met Grace face-to-face, but she feels like a sister to me. She was in town several months ago, but then I had to go have a baby. By the time I was up and around again, she was back interior. Grace and […]

Day 2: Let’s Talk About Food

July 24, 2023

This post was originally published on July 21, 2021 at https://thekresges.com/2021/07/21/day-2-lets-talk-about-food/. Americans get a bad rap for being obsessed with food. It’s true, we do like our cuisine, but it’s also true that people from every country and culture love to prepare, talk about, and eat good food. Eating is common to all mankind; it brings us […]

Day 1: Catching Up

July 24, 2023

This post was originally published on July 20, 2021 at https://thekresges.com/2021/07/20/day-1-catching-up/. At the top of every newsletter we send out, there’s a little subline that says: “Read more at http://www.thekresges.com” With shame, I admit that for over a year there hasn’t been any “more” to read here. The problem wasn’t that life got boring. It just […]

Time Out.

July 24, 2023

This post was originally published at https://thekresges.com/2020/04/06/time-out/ on April 6, 2020. Unprecedented. Unparalleled. Unbelievable. These buzzwords have been in our ears and on our lips over the past several weeks as the world settles in for its long-term battle against COVID-19. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my generation!” is on the tongue of young […]

Back in Training…and WHY.

June 23, 2019

The months of silence on this blog have been filled with the noisy reality of life being lived. Sometimes it’s hectic and stressful; other times we can rest and enjoy quiet and relaxation. Allthe time, God is patiently reminding us that His peace is an ever-present gift to our weary souls. The early months of 2019 […]

Christmas Reflections

December 19, 2018

Christmas is a season of celebration, when we remember joy and hope and sing heartily of good cheer. However, as we draw near to the end of 2018, Jared and I are tempted to say, “Good riddance!” This has been a year we will always recall for its sheer quantity of trials. In years to […]

Beauty for Ashes

September 28, 2018

“Mom…Mom?” My last-minute preparations for a Friday-night dinner with friends were interrupted by Ivan’s uncertain voice as he thrust his left hand over the kitchen sink in front of me. Although it took a few moments to realize the severity of his injury, I knew at once that his fourth finger had experienced some trauma. […]

The Day Tarzan Fell

April 9, 2018

Three weeks ago on Monday, March 19, I (Carol) went to the boys’ school to pick them up at noon. Titus was busy playing on his favorite part of the playground, a rope swing that swings out over a small drop-off. A couple of months ago, a ball was hung out above that drop-off so […]

Loving in Small Ways

February 23, 2018

A conversation recently took place in our local expat* Facebook group here in our little city in Asia-Pacific. A newbie family introduced a question along these lines: “Are we the only foreign family that constantly deals with local people wanting to take selfies with us? If you have experienced this, how do you deal with […]

A Year in Pictures

August 8, 2017

The following pictures tell the story of our first year in Asia-Pacific. They’re not all pretty or professional, but they speak better than words alone. One year ago on August 5th, we departed for Asia-Pacific. We arrived on the 7th of August, jet-lagged, with (most) of our bags. We began making friends… …going to […]