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This is not the zoo. 動物園？

This picture was taken from our living room window.   This is a neighbor's car parked in front of our apartment building.   We are so grateful for screens on our doors and windows so that we can safely open the windows to enjoy the breeze without fearing any intruders.

これは、私たちの居間の窓から撮った写真です。家の前に駐車している車の上におサルさんの家族が日向ぼっこしていました。

The First Day of School

This was taken the very first day our children went to school outside of our home (not simply this year's first day of school, but their first day ever!).  They leave at 7:15 am to drive to the school bus pick-up point by 7:30; then they return by school bus around 3:30 pm--if it doesn't rain.   (When it rains, traffic gets much worse.)

Every day when they get home from school, we have them rate on a scale from 1 to 10 how much they liked school that day.   On average, Meena rates it anywhere between 9 and 20, Sawyer rates it between 6 to 9, and Satoshi rates it between 7 to 9.  

Kansas Sky

Roger grew up in the middle of the USA, in the state of Kansas. As far as the eyes can see, land spreads out all around, and some of the biggest sky you can ever see covers everything. Often as you drive along the highways which seem to run endlessly in straight lines toward the horizon, the land and sky make different harmonies of light and shadow, texture and color. We enjoyed the God's exhibit of His majesty, as we drove for 5 hours across a swath of Kansas one day recently.

USA:The boys' first time experience of kayaking

Before we left Charlotte, North Carolina, we drove west into Tennessee, where the boys got to go kayaking on a lake for the first time ever!

USA: Roger's family in KS

We have been really enjoying spending lots of time with Roger's family in Kansas

USA: Paintig with a Purpose

A woman who owns an art studio in Charlotte, North Carolina hosted a Courage Homes art fundraiser. It was a fun night of fellowship, laughter, and painting together. Roger & I shared about Courage Homes, before the artist then coached everyone to paint a picture of a cross. Something about painting in community makes my heart full.