Boys In Jaalabiiyas
We gave each of the boys a jaalabiiya for Christmas. If you don’t know what that is, just check out the picture. All of…
Archive for December, 2010
Haddasah and Khadiija
Our Email application is on the fritz and we cannot see any of our emails or use the program right now, so NO update…
Christmas Tree
Our first Christmas in Chad was wonderful. As always, we miss our family and friends, but living in another context makes you feel the…
Labor For Hire
I have started to equip our children with skills in high demand. Athanasius, who is healthy and out of bed now, has finished his…
A Purifying Discipline
We read this in our Psalm reading this morning as a family and we (Sonja and I) found ourselves nodding our heads at its…
8 Years Ago…
…I woke up in a church pew, after falling asleep there trying to complete a song for the lovely lady I was to see…
Rough Dinner
Supper in the Broten home is a full-contact activity, so here is Athanasius sporting the proper gear for the occasion: Actually, another teammate (Loretta)…
Banned
Today, I officially banned Evangeline from taking care of Athanasius. I mean it was one thing when he was nursing a doll…that was kind…
House or Hospital?
Since we’ve already seen a baby delivered in our home this year, we figured why not give vaccinations as well. Nurse Margit returned from…
True Blues
When a visitor holds Hadassah these days, you will often hear Evangeline in the background reporting, “It’s 4-2 now”. No, she hasn’t joined Nehemiah…
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