I have just been informed that we have been setting the latest trends in the fashion world for the summer. We’ve been doing it for several years now-pretty much since we moved to Ghana. I thought it was just a convenient way not to have to style my hair and yet fulfill local fashion requirements for northern Ghana. I now know that people have been watching and have decided that it must be proclaimed as a “must.” Have you figured out how the Esala women (and more recently Christina) have set the trend? Two words-Head scarf. Yep. We’ve been doing it here for a while. Now you can get on the fashion band wagon with us. Click here for MSN article.  So as you don your scarf (some call them “head bands” but that doesn’t sound very imaginative) you can smile, knowing where the trend really originated.  Esala headscarfs.

Shooting star is no longer with us after a traumatic trampling event that we will not describe. Unfortunately it was very rough on the girls. That happened while mom was still at home. Percy, however, is doing well. While Sarah was gone Karissa and Annaka and I transitioned Percy from sleeping, eating and drinking inside to an outside chicken. He now sleeps in the same room with his relatives though they do not fraternize much. But at least they do not attack him anymore. If they run at him, now Percy is smart enough to get away. That is partly why Percy is a bit of a loner. Still we are thankful he is surviving in the real world and we hope to find him well when we return home in a couple of weeks. By the way, one thing that helped aid the transition was watching an episode of the Dick Van Dyke show called “Never name a duck”. Read the rest of this entry »

Sarah and Aili arrived home to Ghana after visiting ‘home’ in the United States. They arrived in Tamale on Friday morning and we traveled to Ouagadougou for our quarterly homeschool coop on Saturday. So Sarah and Aili have gotten a bit disoriented with international time, and Aili with a different bed each night. I must say that I am glad to have them back. Here’s a little run down of how it went while Karissa, Annaka and I were ‘treading water’. Read the rest of this entry »

Nathan is holding down the fort in Nasuan with the two big girls while Sarah is at her brother’s wedding with Aili and Christina is visiting the Federwitz’s in Tamale.  I thought how can I get any work done? Is it okay to just tread water? Read the rest of this entry »