Month: January 2015

  • It’s Good to be Home

    We made it to 2:00am today. I went to bed last night at around 7:30pm, so that’s actually a pretty good night’s sleep. And I’m learning to live with jet lag. In fact, I was really productive between 3:00 – 7:00 this morning. Went through emails, wrote people back, worked on my to-do list, got…

  • Captain’s Log: Jet Lag Edition

    Wednesday, January 14, 2015 18:30 – Just arrived home in Czech Republic from America 18:45 – Kids are crying a lot from exhaustion 19:00 – Avery fell asleep 19:15 – Titus is crying still 19:30 – Titus fell asleep 19:31 – Bethany and I fell asleep. 23:30 – Avery is wide awake and crying 23:31…

  • Back in Czech

    We made it to the train that is taking us home. Other than the Lord’s grace, I have no idea how we have come this far. We are exhausted, the Paris airport was ridiculous, and the sparkling grape juice I just opened exploded on me and my computer as I was typing this. It’s been…

  • The Big Trip Home

    Looking out the window of our airplane I see clouds, snow, and the orange glow of the sunset on the wing. According to the flight map on the screen in front of me we’re somewhere over Canada. That explains the snow, I guess. The morning was a little rough for me. Not only was I…

  • Unexpected Toothache

    I’m sitting here in a good amount of pain so I’m going to keep this as short as I can. When I was nine years old I got hit in the face with a baseball. At that time it broke three of my teeth, including one on the bottom which needed a root canal and…