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Today, we loaded up the mini-van and headed for Jonesboro to represent ABCH at the Global Impact Celebration hosted by Central Baptist.

I’ve never been to Jonesboro. It takes forever to get there! Seriously. FOR-EVER.

I was just about to my wits-end when we came upon Weiner. That’s right. There is a town in Arkansas that goes by the name of Weiner. Here’s a photo to prove it.

Happily, I’m picking up some wireless at our host home. They’ll be more to come as the weekend progresses. Stay tuned!

[My wife made me take all the mood pictures off.]

Amanda and I will be representing the Arkansas Baptist Children’s Homes this weekend at the Global Impact Celebration hosted by Central Baptist Church in Jonesboro, Arkansas. We are pretty excited about it for lots of reasons. One being that this guy is going to be there. The Austin family came to Peru to join the ReapSouth team 2 weeks before we were leaving it.

Come on over if you get the chance!

I’ll be posting about the conference throughout the weekend. Ya’ll come back now. Ya hear?

Without Skype, we might not have survived Peru. It is truly amazing, this technology thing. We called home literally daily, and never paid anything, and it was crystal clear.
I haven’t had much use for it since we returned to the U.S., until now.  Two of my best friends are serving with the Marines in Iraq. Amazing. I can talk to a guy in Iraq, for free, and it sounds like he’s in the next room.

It’s been a good day. Anything good happen to you today?

A few days ago I mentioned my lack of adult-to-baby-to-adult communication skills. Laura, a good friend of ours, suggested that we teach Sophia to answer. What a brilliant idea! We worked on it and I think we might have gotten somewhere. Here’s a video of Sophia holding her own.

WordPress does this really cool thing. Every time someone finds my blog through a search engine, it shows me what word or phrase was searched that led them to my blog. Here are my favorites so far from 2008.

• teenage meltdown
• my wife is gorgeous
• tony saturies seasoning
• funny cartoons of snowstorms
• rabbit with a computer
• wearing shower caps
• alpaca + smell

I’m learning about hair.

Lesson #1: What you see isn’t always what you get.

One of our girls had really long braids. Then, Friday night, while she was watching a movie, she began quietly removing them!  It scared me I was very intrigued. In about 45 minutes, she went from long braids to . . .

I take feeding myself for granted. I mean, I wasn’t born with that ability. Yet, I can get almost all of my food into my mouth by myself and in a socially acceptable manner. Sophia, on the other hand, can’t. But, she’s working on it!

Here are two photos documenting two of her three preferred methods of eating. 1) Using an eating utensil. 2) Using her hand. And her third method is on this video. It’s called “The heck with it. I’m just turning up the plate.”

Do you know what improbity means? I didn’t either, but I knew a whole lot of other words. Enough to get more than 2,000 grains of rice donated. How? Well . . . .

Firefox just reached 500 million downloads. That’s a lot. To celebrate this significant milestone, the company is doing a ‘get behind’. Today they are asking users to visit the site FreeRice.com, which is a sister site of Poverty.org.  At FreeRice.com you play a vocabulary game and for each word you get right, the site donates 20 grains of rice through the UN Food Program. Give it a go. See how high you can get your vocab level.

Improbity, by the way, means dishonesty.

One of our girls slipped a way too small ring on her finger yesterday. And when I say ‘way too small’, I mean WAY too small. She slipped it on and it wasn’t coming off. Soap and water . . . nope. Crisco . . . nope. Praying and fasting . . . nope.

It ultimately took a trip to the fire station where 2 fireman used their highly specialized resources (butter knife, wire cutters) to detach it. She’s baking some cookies to take to them just now. So, if you happen to see one today, give a fireman a hug.