This week we sat down and looked at the month ahead.  The month is already full and it hasn’t even begun.  I am not sure how we will get done what we have before us to get done, but I know it is what we are supposed to do. Step In a few weeks Joel […]

I spent the afternoon learning how to dye cloth.  Here are some of the objects we used.

How to travel out to the village as a family 100 new French words How to make Senegalese tea How to plant a papaya tree A small taxi out to the village is not considered full until there is four adults in back and 3 up front We discovered the first African dish that Ethan won’t eat […]

This week our challenge was all about bugs Household bug…With the rains this week our bug population exploded.  Thousands of flies, hundreds of mosquito, a few spiders, roaches, beetles and millipedes Food Bugs…for some reason there were an abnormally large number of bugs I had to sort out of our flour and sugar this week Fever Bugs… […]

A New Language Helper We were able to find a female language helper for me from our church.  I started with her this week and it is going really well.  She is a perfect match for me and will be able to hopefully guide me to the end of my French study.  This is a […]

Some days… I am dripping in sweat the entire day I stare up at our open roof and want to scream I go outside and realize there are fewer bugs outside my house than inside my house I worry about how the details of how our new language helper will work out I don’t feel […]