Archive for January, 2007

First born

First born

January 28th, 2007 | By Flo living in Mexico | More from Flo

Well, a new year has officially begun and I already see lots of changes on the horizon. The biggest one is that in April I’ll become a first-time mother!! Argh it’s so soon! Thankfully I got some time to take it nice and slow in January and I’m trying to read everything on the subject [...]

New year, new month

January 28th, 2007

Blink and a month goes by. Funny how that happens. All of our bloggers are busier than ever with life in the Family International—There is much to prepare for and look forward to this year all over the world. For Family members 2007 is going to be a year that focuses on training and gaining [...]

Evaluations

Evaluations

January 24th, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

We tried something a bit new this year—we made personal evaluations for each person in our Family home. Since the New Year is a wonderful time to make goals, resolutions (that you intend to keep), and especially goals in areas that we all want to do better in like our personal relations with others, we [...]

New moves

New moves

January 24th, 2007 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Joni: Things have been very busy here, but with it has come a lot of progress for which we are very glad. One news item of interest is that we will probably be moving houses in one month. Actually the way we found this new house was a miracle in itself. For a while [...]

Trip tales

Trip tales

January 18th, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

Our trip tales have not ended with the elephants….heh. You know, having another kid on the way I always wonder what will it be like with two kids. Well, having my sister Amanda on the trip with us gave me a little bit of a picture. It’s no piece of cake, but [...]

Christmas disco

Christmas disco

January 17th, 2007 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Joni: Ok, yes, so I was going to tell you about why my room looks like a disco at night. Well, one day I come in the room and Chad is…well I forget exactly what he was doing (yes, you lose brain cells when you’re pregnant) but I remember thinking it looked a bit like [...]

New Year’s at Dubare Elephant camp

New Year’s at Dubare Elephant camp

January 15th, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

Our new years’ was closely followed by a trip to another part of Karnataka, called Coorg. What a brilliant place that was – greenery everywhere and fresh cold air. When you live in a big cosmopolitan city in India, you don’t get to see much of nature and much less breathe fresh clean [...]

Three Kings Day

Three Kings Day

January 14th, 2007 | By Vas and Joni living in Mexico | More from Vas and Joni

Vas: Well here in Mexico it’s kinda still Christmas because January 6th is Kings Day and that’s the time they give presents. Well, they actually give presents on Christmas and Kings Day. What I have usually seen is that on Christmas the presents are given to your family and friends and on Kings Day a [...]

Christmas Highlights

Christmas Highlights

January 13th, 2007 | By Sara and Vincent living in India | More from Sara and Vincent

Belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! And to all my friends, I love you guys and miss you especially much during this time.
Well, since I missed out all the Christmas questions I just thought I would jot down some highlights of our Christmas adventures and miracles. This was truly [...]

January 12th, 2007

Well, Christmas is over, New Year’s has passed, but we’ve still got a few Christmas and New Year-related posts coming up this week. “It’s Christmas every day”, right?