We know the prayer offered in faith brings effective results.

What of the food offered and the food eaten?

One of the cardinal rules of visiting a foreign country is to be gracious and polite and eat what is offered.

When you’re trying to cut down on your consumption of carbs, Mexico can be a difficult place to cut down on your carbs.

We smile, we’re thankful, we eat what we are given and hope it all sorts out in the end.

Which it usually does, or the belly!

We’re back down in Mexico helping with another building project.

Worked all day long today and drove only 1 nail.

Can you believe that?

Between the hard working crew from Oregon and the local workers now involved in our building projects it’s hard to get a nail in edgewise.

It’s great, absolutely fantastic to see so many people working so hard.

May not have been able to help frame (which is my favorite part) but the boy and I did run the chop saw all day long.

The boy, like his mother, has a head for numbers and comes in handy making sense of fractions.

Yes it has been a long time.

So long I forgot my username and password!

Busy?  Yes

Lots of activity in our lives?  Yes

I know that’s true for you as well.

In spite of the frenetic pace everyone is well.

August will be a month of transitions and changes – part of the normality of  growing kids and full-time jobs and school.