Posted in Daily Living, Family, Pictures, Travel on Dec 26th, 2008
We’ve gotten to enjoy our first Christmas as a family with me away at work…not the most fun way to spend Christmas but Melissa and the kids were super flexible to accomidate my schedule. I’m now half way done with my internal medicine rotation and have got about a week and a half left to [...]
Posted in Daily Living, Family, Medicine, Pictures, Travel on Dec 21st, 2008
Merry Christmas wishes to everyone early since I’m not sure if I’ll get another opportunity to post another message before Christmas because I’m on call the night before. I’ve been busy at work the last few weeks and thus very little time to devote to working on pictures or posting an update. I finished another [...]
Posted in Family, Food, Pictures, Travel, Video on Oct 18th, 2008
In my last post, I had talked some about one of our favorite restaurants in Chicago for deep dish pizza - Lou Malnatis. We first discovered this pizzeria about 4 years ago when we we did a marathon 3500 mile trip that brought us through Chicago on the way to Kalamazoo, MI. Since then we [...]
Sorry we have not posted in a while. We were on vacation the first week of October to visit my sister, Chrisly, in Battle Creek, Michigan and since we got back I’ve been working long days in Labor & Delivery at Parkland until today, which was my first day off since I got back to [...]
Posted in Daily Living, Family, Medicine, Pictures, Residency, Travel on Sep 30th, 2008
We’re all packed up to leave for Michigan this morning to visit Christo’s sister, Chrisly, who works for Kellogg in Battle Creek, Michigan. We’re so glad that I’ve got a week off during my labor & delivery month so that we can have time together as a family and to enjoy time with Chrisly in [...]
Posted in Daily Living, Family, Medicine, Missions, Pictures, Travel on Jun 3rd, 2008
We are still working hard on getting projects done around the house before Christo starts his residency orientation on June 22nd. The big things we have done so far have been to put in new ceiling fans in all the rooms (did you know that a ceiling can make a room feel 10 degrees [...]
Posted in Daily Living, Medicine, Missions, Pictures, Travel on May 16th, 2008
Just wanted to give all of you a quick summary of our trip back to the US and our first few days back in America. We left Makunda last Wednesday to start our journey home back to the US. Before our departure, the staff at Makunda threw us a wonderful farewell potluck dinner and so [...]
Posted in Medicine, Missions, Pictures, Travel on May 14th, 2008
Because of the problems we had with our internet connection, we were not able to put up this post from Melissa. Continue to lift up Luke in your prayers as he has still been suffering from diarrhea. The kids are having a difficult time with jet lag…they were up this morning about 1:30 AM. We [...]
Just a quick post to let all of you know that we have arrived safely back in Rochester around 4 PM this afternoon. God blessed us with a good travel experience and the kids did well although they have both crashed for the evening. Please continue to lift us up in your prayers [...]
Posted in Daily Living, Medicine, Missions, Travel on May 6th, 2008
Another week has passed and we now down to less than a week at Makunda before we leave here for Delhi on Saturday and then return to the US on Tuesday. It has been a good week at Makunda with time to talk with other families on campus and to get their perspectives on mission [...]
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