Thankful for successful immigrants!

This week I’m thankful that my friend Camryn and her husband got their papers to immigrate to Canada! I cannot wait to see her in the spring.
Well, I mean I can’t wait to meet her!
We’ve known each other for over six years but we met online. Almost immediately she referred to me as “sis” and [...]

Wedding plans

If everything goes according to my heart’s desire (and that happens approximately 0% of the time), I will meet a lovely Nigerian guy, we will date for a little while, he will propose to me (white gold ring with a modest sparkling stone in hand), and then I will be flung into making decisions like [...]

Thanking God in tough times — do you do it?

There were a lot of blog entries referring to Haiti last week, and I would like to encourage us to continue to keep the relief and rescue efforts in our thoughts and prayers. When something devastating happens far away from us, it’s easy for it to drift from our minds as our daily things occupy [...]

Traveling to Nigeria – clothing and accessories

To those of you who asked questions about staying in the village, my mom would correct you rather quickly and tell you that Akure is not a village, that it is the capital city of Ondo state and its largest city to boot, with a population of approximately 387 087 people (thanks, Wikipedia). Of [...]

Beautiful Nigeria

Here are some pictures I took while I was in Nigeria in October/November 2008. If I had to give this set of pictures a theme, it would be fertility (that or lushness). All pictures can be clicked to make larger.
I love dodo (fried plantain) and this is how plantain looks on the tree before all [...]

Thankful for what has been done and what will be done

For the past week, access to my site has been terrible, and I have called technical support on four occasions, sent an email and even found them on twitter to explain that I’m having trouble accessing my blogs. They kept saying they were working on it, and even that they had fixed it but [...]

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