Alma has wanted a goat for a long time. A really long time. This summer seemed like the perfect combination of: A) Alma’s best friend of 5 years just moved away B) the compound was pretty empty due to some people leaving, and others not yet returned C) our move to Rwanda made a natural…

One of the strange things about having this blog chronicle our lives for as long as it has – is there’s a post from when Alma was born! This one has been kind of a strange birthday – because we’ve entered a new stage of our family life. Starting this fall, we only have one…

{ooops…wrote this our last week in Kibuye – and didn’t get around to posting it.} One of the strange things about this team is that although we are in the least medically served country in the world (Canada & USA have a physician for every ~340 people, rural Burundi has 1 physician for ~40,000 people),…