House Tour

We thought we'd give you a tour of our house here in Beira. We have been blessed with a beautiful space to live in--the bottom half of a four-plex that is located only a few hundred meters from the ocean. Hopefully you can get a sense of our house through the following pictures:


Front Porch (with the boys).

Side Yard. Although we technically "share" the yard with all the othe families in the complex, we pretty much have it to ourselves throughout the day since the other tenants are at work and do not have children.

Living Room (the view as you walk through the front door).

Dining Room. This room is actually a part of the living room. We knocked out the blocked "window" that leads to the kitchen (You just can't keep Stefan from home renovation!)

Master Bedroom.

Cohen's Bedroom. We've got him sleeping on the floor due to the lack of a bed with rails. Even this way he is literally "all over the room" while he sleeps: We often come in after a nap to find his mattress scooted way over in front of the door!

Christian's Bedroom (with Cohen posing).

The Kitchen (leading to the back porch).

Back Porch (where we do laundry and wash dirty little feet several times a day).

Changes in Weather

We are beginning our first "Winter" in Mozambique and have really been enjoying the change in weather. It is so much fun to wake up to a cool and breezy house or to spend our afternoons outside walking on the beach or playing in the yard. Cohen always looks forward to Stefan coming home from work so we can spend a few minutes playing ball or sitting and eating a snack on our front porch.

The Beach

What to write on a first post on a first blog? Not even sure where this blog is going at this point other than serving as an attempt to join twenty-first century communication.

How life has changed from the time Stefan and I were little squirts romping and reveling in our own little lives as missionary kids--from the Amazon jungle to the highlands of central Brazil! And now here we are with our own two little ones--their view vastly different than our own as they look out from the shore of Mozambique. As parents we wonder what this experience will be for them...hoping they will be blessed as we were with the opportunity to live extraordinary childhoods as they come to know and love this God who led them, at least for now, to this country...these people...this view.