teisipäev, august 10, 2004
Books, Flowers & Music
We're doing well unpacking the shipment of 96 boxes which arrived on Friday. But we still haven't unpacked our many boxes of books (except the Sonlight homeschooling stuff!) because we don't have bookcases to put them in. Tim went out with a guy today who showed him a bunch of stores, including a furniture store that is going out of business (hurray!). So soon that should be taken care of.
Chris went out tonight with a youth group at the Botanical Garden here. After we dropped him off, we walked around the grounds. It was SO beautiful! Hey, check it out at http://www.ut.ee/botaed/
I remember that the first field trip we took to D.C. after moving to Virginia was to the Botanic Garden. http://www.usbg.gov/
Three weeks ago, Tim went to the Botanical Garden for the welcome reception on his first day of language school.
Flowers (and -- thank God -- chocolate!) are abundant here and an important part of the culture. We always have fresh flowers in the house, usually a vase in every room. The other day I was thrilled to find some edelweiss! We got a small bouquet for only 5 krooni! (A dollar is about 12.5 krooni.) I was reminded of singing "Edelweiss" at Aunt Joann's funeral last summer.
Today we kept opening boxes that said they contain CDs, trying to find Christopher's music. We didn't find his yet, but we did find a lot of mine and Tim's. It is so nice to be able to listen to "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever" as I type!
Tomorrow we will go to Tallinn to meet with our Regional Commanders and the finance staff.
Please pray for us, as we have some important and difficult decisions to make. We really want to hear God's voice and not only be acting on what seems to be logical to us! We're grateful for logic, but we really need wisdom as well!
If you've been reading our blog, we'd love to hear from you!
Evelyn (for Tim, Chris, Elizabeth & Peter)
Chris went out tonight with a youth group at the Botanical Garden here. After we dropped him off, we walked around the grounds. It was SO beautiful! Hey, check it out at http://www.ut.ee/botaed/
I remember that the first field trip we took to D.C. after moving to Virginia was to the Botanic Garden. http://www.usbg.gov/
Three weeks ago, Tim went to the Botanical Garden for the welcome reception on his first day of language school.
Flowers (and -- thank God -- chocolate!) are abundant here and an important part of the culture. We always have fresh flowers in the house, usually a vase in every room. The other day I was thrilled to find some edelweiss! We got a small bouquet for only 5 krooni! (A dollar is about 12.5 krooni.) I was reminded of singing "Edelweiss" at Aunt Joann's funeral last summer.
Today we kept opening boxes that said they contain CDs, trying to find Christopher's music. We didn't find his yet, but we did find a lot of mine and Tim's. It is so nice to be able to listen to "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever" as I type!
Tomorrow we will go to Tallinn to meet with our Regional Commanders and the finance staff.
Please pray for us, as we have some important and difficult decisions to make. We really want to hear God's voice and not only be acting on what seems to be logical to us! We're grateful for logic, but we really need wisdom as well!
If you've been reading our blog, we'd love to hear from you!
Evelyn (for Tim, Chris, Elizabeth & Peter)
