Fareaststreet is the creative outlet of Kristie and her husband Jason.
September 2008
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A Real Conversation
Ellie and I are at the elevator, getting ready to go down to the cafeteria for lunch.
Seminary student: Is this Ellie?
Kristie: Yes.
Seminary student: She’s very famous.
A Flower for Sunday
This is the day the LORD has made;We will rejoice and be glad in it.Psalm 118:24
Worst Birthday Ever? You decide.
Yesterday was Poor Ellie, today it’s Poor Jason.
Every year, for some reason, it turns out that Jason’s birthday falls in the midst or just after major upheaval or events in our lives. This usually leads to a mediocre (or worse) celebration. Over the past five years of our marriage, two stand out as particularly bad. [...]
A Real Conversation
This one is from a week or two ago. We were still living amidst the “chaos of stuff” (now reduced to “major disorganization”). Our second shipment of furniture had arrived that day and Jason and I worked hard to get it all put together and get the rest of everything at least off the floor. [...]
Take My Trash Away
The trash system here in Taiwan is a wide margin of different from the trash system in the US, or at least the trash system as I know it. I say this because I am from a rural place. How rural? So rural that there are no trash services. As in, when you need to [...]
Today is a Very Special Day
Happy Birthday to you!Happy Birthday to you!Happy Birthday, we love you!Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday Jason! With love, from your best girls.
A Real Conversation
Kristie: Okay! Dinner’s ready!
Ellie: Yaaay!!! (as she jumps up from what she’s doing and runs to the table)
City Mice Now
On our first day in Taipei I was walking through the subway with Ellie in the Ergo pack and I told her that we were city mice now so we needed to be cool. Of course some may argue that the very act of talking to my not-fully-verbal 18 month old in the middle of [...]
A Flower for Sunday
Sow for yourselves righteousness;Reap in mercy;Break up your fallow ground,For it is time to seek the LORD,Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.Hosea 10:12
A Real Conversation
This conversation doesn’t really translate that well, but it is so fun I’ll try anyways. Some keys for understanding: In Chinese every country name ends in the word “country”. So, for example, France might be “France-Country” and the US “America-Country”. People from a certain country are X-Country-Person, for example a French person is “France-Country-Person” and [...]
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