At this point we could post a shot of a red weeping sore that has been bandaged twice a day for about a week now, but does anyone really want to see that? Nairobi eyes, avoid them! One of our dorm girls has a burn both above and below her knee from one of these sinister creatures. With great skill and daring we eradiated them. For days you have an infected sore that is unsightly and painful. So what happens is, if you find one of these tiny creastures on a part of your body and if you accidentally crush them and get their bodily fluid on you, it literally gives you a chemical burn. About as thick as a piece of spaghetti and 15 mm long, (been here so long we use metrics). There is an insect here called the Nairobi Eye. Our extensive experience has taught us much and we feel duty bound to share. Our friends, Andy and Laura, are ministering in Hilton Head, SC, and everybody says 'When can we visit?' Very few of our friends (like none) have said, 'When can we visit?' Even so, we thought it would be good to let you know what you may want to avoid if you jump on a jet for the short flight over. Now that we have been in Kenya over two months, we are pretty much experts at all things cultural, environmental and.well, everything. We celebrate the birth of our saviour with you! Have a Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year! Thank you so much for traveling this journey with us. These blogs have been meant to track our feelings and emotions as we navigate, for us, what is a pretty big change. Not sure how that will change over the next 18 months, but looking forward to reflecting on it. As our mission at RVA grows and our affinity for the people grow, our feeling of being at home in Kenya grows too. It just is so much less like home than it was back in July. Our niece and her son, our great nephew (and he is great) are doing a wonderful job at the house on Lakeshore. We will do that again as soon as we get back home. We backed up our computers just before we left Michigan so we've been informed by them of the last back up. We have been away from Grand Haven for 155 days or so our computer tells us. Ben took two days off from work to hang out with us. In fact, he awoke to us after a nap while we were babysitting and giving Ben and Christina a date night and, after a quick room check for Christina, he was off and playing and doing fine. Jay has stopped crying everytime he sees us which is a big improvement. Ari already knows that Nana can be trusted and Papa is silly.

A great time of connection and learning the bends of these beautiful children. We got to spend 5 days with the kids and grandkids out in Utah and it was the best. So here we are, back in the USA, and enjoying our first big break. Being second career people with AIM and the fact that RVA by it's nature has longish brakes between each term, it was a fairly short negotiation. She was all set to go anywhere she was asked to go as long as she got to see our grandkids at least a couple of times a year.

It is not well known that Jane was a contract holdout.

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