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When we lived in Tegus last year I was at home alone with the kids and someone rang our doorbell.  I went down to answer the door and looking through the gate I could see it was three people with vests, official looking badges and clipboards.  It’s important to note here that when I say [...]

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This is going to get boring.  
In about an hour I’m heading to the airport.  While this certainly marks a turning point in our lives, it also marks a turning point in this web page.  Gone are posts like the last one about raging rivers, malaria and installation of running water (at least I hope [...]

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I headed up to the north coast this two weeks ago to visit Andrea and Matthew in La Ceiba and to visit the Finca in Trujillo.  It was a nice trip, though a bit rushed and quite frankly a bit wet.  It rained the whole time which isn’t entirely unexpected this time of year.  
At [...]

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I sent out this email last week to a few people, I’m posting it here because it’s the best that I can do to explain what’s going on in our lives at the moment for those who may not have been included on the original e-mail.
Family and Friends,
We really thought that our lives would start [...]

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There are places in the heart that do not yet exist, and it is into these that sadness enters, that they may have existence.
When we learned that we were pregnant we had just about decided that we were done having children.  We had three beautiful children, we were happy, we were good with three.  The [...]

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I always try to give a little sense of what it’s like to live overseas.  You get used to the strangeness sometimes but every once in a while something truly startling breaks through. 
I’ve quickly become accustomed to driving on the main boulevards of Teguz with the taxis, buses, and sad street performers (let’s just say [...]

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I spent two days last week in San Juan, La Paz.  San Juan is a village of about 60 houses about 2 1/2 hours from Tegucigalpa.  Until last week the town had no running water.  The residents of the village (typically women) had to go down to the river outside of town to wash clothes, bathe, bring water back for [...]

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I called home today to check in and Erika paused the conversation to yell at the kids.¨ “No synchonized diving off of the couches!” 
 

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After a week of house hunting and being cooped up in a hotel room we are happy to be moving into our new home.  It’s a great house up on a hill overlooking the city just a few minutes from the CRS office.  It’s furnished with everything we’ll need to get started and we’re very [...]

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After my last post about resorting to Burger King for my children’s amusement I thought I would just post an update that we found something much better than a BK playland.  It turns out that Tegucigalpa has a world class children’s museum.  We’re talking 4 floors of pure educational fun.  Costumes, kid sized construction vehicles, [...]

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