Fareaststreet is the creative outlet of Kristie and her husband Jason.
June 2008
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J is for Japanese Encephalitis
Last week Ellie got her vaccination against Japanese Encephalitis, a pretty nasty illness you can get from mosquitoes over here. It was the usual vaccination drill: the baring of the leg, the stick in the thigh, the bandaid, the shock, then the getting mad, then the crying, then finding something to distract with, and we’re [...]
A Flower for Sunday
The LORD lives!Blessed be my Rock!Let the God of my salvation be exalted.Psalm 18:46
God Bless Taiwan
Ellie striking her patriotic pose.
A Real Conversation
Ellie has a little seed of some kind that she is showing us. Note: It is not even a round seed, it is oblong. If it was round I would have agreed right away.
Ellie: Ball !
Kristie: No, that’s a seed, honey.
Ellie: Ball !
Kristie: It’s a seed.
Ellie: Ball !
Kristie: It is sort of roundish, like [...]
Uphill both ways.
Don’t ya just hate those running routes that are uphill on the way out and flat on the way back?!?
How is this cruel, cruel trick on the psyche possible?
But you know, the negative splits are a big ego booster.
A Flower for Sunday
Give ear to my words, O Lord, Consider my meditation. Give heed to the voice of my cry, My King and my God, For to You I will pray. My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will direct it to You, And I will look up.Psalm 5:1-3
And It’s Suuuuuuu-mer! Summer Time is Here!
When do you think summer begins?
According to the western calendar the official start of summer was yesterday, June 20th. In some people’s opinion summer begins with the arrival of shorts and flip-flop weather. By this standard summer in Taiwan began sometime around the beginning of April and hasn’t even come to Vermont yet (where we [...]
A Real Conversation
Jason: My Dad wants to know if it is OK with you if instead of my family coming to visit us in Taiwan we all take a vacation to Hawaii together.
Kristie: Umm…is this a trick question?
Jason: So Hawaii?
Kristie: Hawaii!!!
Jason: Don’t get your hopes up, things aren’t definite yet.
Kristie: Too late. Hopes are so up. [...]
A Flower for Sunday (Father’s Day Edition)
Blessed is every one who fears the Lord, Who walks in His ways.
When you eat the labor of your hands,You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.Your wife shall be like a fruitful vineIn the very heart of your house,Your children like olive plants All around your table.Behold, thus shall the man [...]
The Big Honkin’ Ellie Update (with tons of pictures)
Maybe it’s because Ellie is my first of (hopefully) several children, maybe it is my none-too-sentimental personality, maybe I am just too busy with the present to think about the past, but I never really find myself missing Ellie’s “baby days”, wishing she would stay the way she is, or feeling sad that she is [...]
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