It’s less than 3 hours from March 2008 and unless Dana goes into sudden ultra warp speed labor, Asher will be born in the 3rd month of the year; the same month as Dana and I.  That’s kind of cool now that we think about it.  Between him having a leap year birthday or a [...]

This is some video I caught of Dana, some snow, and our drive to the doctor for her 34th-week visit.  This was back in mid-January of this year.

This is video of water from the shower in our banda in Africa.  You’ll see me fill up a bucket in a dim-lit bathroom then carry it outside so you can see it better.                                 

You can go there at www.mccalled.com/photographs/africabirds/ or just click on the graphic above.

Dana is due one week from yesterday! It has taken an eternity to get here and yet it also seems as though it has abruptly come upon us. In about a week’s time, we’ll be parents. Ruh-roh. (That’s a good ruh-roh.)
Mama Asher (what Dana will go by in Tanzania) is [...]

These are section screenshots from the same two websites (mccalled.com/amyboyles/ (left) & mccalled.com (right)) viewed in Safari 3 (top) and Firefox 2 (bottom) on Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2. I was wondering if anyone else has noticed any color oddities in Safari like this and if so, have you learned how to fix it? [...]

While we were still in Africa, I made a prediction of Asher’s arrival to be on February 20.  Well, if you keep track of the modern-day calendar, you’ll discover that, well… I WAS WRONG.  For Dana’s sake, I wish I was right because her discomfort is vastly increasing day-by-day.  But, she is still overall very [...]

I haven’t posted one of these in a while but Dana and I were looking at these over the weekend and got a kick out of some of them.
One question… why are so many people interested in one foot bigger than the other???
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February 11, 2008

More than ever, a particular part of being a christian has become a challenge for me. In general, each day of life in the States is filled with nothing but Americans (mostly) and each Sunday is spent in a home church. In that home, most of those around us are extremely easy to [...]