We heard on the news the other day that American Airlines is averaging 59% on time this summer, the worst in the industry.  Go figure that’s the airline we fly on our first leg to Chicago.  I’m writing this blog at 2:24p (was supposed to leave at 2:25p), still sitting here at gate A11 and [...]

Well, on Friday our air freight shipment items were taken out to JAARS shipping to get packed up and sent to Tanzania.  Mom and Ralph (stepdad) were in town a few days to visit and they brought their F150 truck.  So, I took advantage of the opportunity and got him to drive me and our [...]

Poor Dana had another bad vomit day today.  Unfortunately her morning sickness has allowed me to put different plastic shopping bags to the test. Food Lion, Eckerd, Harris Teeter have all had contestants but one has outperformed them all.  The Target shopping bag.  The return of Dana’s early morning waffle showed me the Target bag [...]

 That was our baby’s heart rate when we went to our first doctor’s appointment today! Everything looks great and we have a due date of March 1, 2008.  I’m sticking with February 29, 2008 as the doc’s little calendar thingy didn’t have that date on there so he’s a day off.  I’ve never been smarter [...]

This is the packing monster as it growls now.  You would not BELIEVE what is in there.  The monster ate more than either of expected it to.  That’s a good thing though.  The stuff in the background to the left (desk, open boxes, blue ottoman) are not part of the monster’s body.  Those are just [...]

Dana wasn’t feeling well again today so I made a solo trip to pay a last visit to the Dorcas Quilting Group at HGBC North. They presented me… us with this quilt for our baby. That group of women is absolutely AWESOME, so good to us, and even crucially important to our support structure. Dorcas Group [...]

Poor Dana. Last Tuesday was one of the worst I’ve ever seen anyone sick. She’s steadily improved since then but things took a turn today. She’s sick again to the point of needing a small trash can on the floor right by her. When her mother was pregnant with Dana, vomiting happened [...]

I’ve had to fax quite a few things here lately and I don’t have a fax machine.  So, I searched online and found this website that will send an electronic document to any fax number in the U.S. and Canada. An example of how I used it is JAARS Clinic needed a copy of my health [...]

  If you have been keeping up with how quickly and easily our possessions have sold, this story won’t surprise you. Our last big item to sell is our 2001 Honda Civic.  We put a small ad on the back page of our 2nd quarter newsletter that was sent out at the beginning of this week. [...]

 One week I’m testing audio-recording equipment to prepare it for a departure for Africa in a month’s time and the very next week I’m surfing the web trying to find the best place to buy enough cloth diapers to last until our (newly-discovered growing in Dana’s womb) baby’s 2nd birthday. Definitely caught by surprise on [...]