Some highlights from our week:
1. Finally got my pre-natal doctor set up and went in for check-ups and the blood test thingy where they have you drink sugar and sit for two hours. Yes, this is a highlight, as there was lots of daddy/daughter time and I got to sit and read. By myself.
2. Teaching at the International school. I stopped teaching in 2012 to focus on Living Stones, but it has been really neat to be back (not full-time though, and with an assistant who will take over once pregnancy takes over me). And oh my goodness...the school has the best lunches ever.
3. Teaching English at Living Stones. The two days I am not at the International school, I am at Cajueiro and Guadalajara. The leadership at both places asked that I go back to the basics and offer English classes to the students--which is the easiest and funnest for me to do, especially while pregnant (basketball just WASN'T gonna happen).
4. Cajueiro Claro Bible Study and Preaching class. Not only do we love our church, but everyone has homework of putting together and posting a five minute lesson on the Bible chapter we discussed together. In Portuguese. Each week. This has been fantastic and challenging for Caid and I, and a much needed "dig into the Bible and Portuguese" time.
5. Old and new friends. Taco Tuesday is a basic staple to our lives, and I don't know what we would do without our amazing English speaking friends/teammates. Friday we met with some new friends (and ministry) and were blessed as well.
6. Pre-natal yoga. I found a couple of moves that have been helping with digestion and oh-my-goodness-so-much-burping. If hairy babies cause more heartburn, I am birthing a monkey.
7. Stay-in rainy Saturdays. Finally saw Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2, and the best part? Baby Groot and teenage Groot. Made me look sideways at my daughter and wonder how we are going to manage in ten years.
Reads from the Interwebs:
About Charlottesville:
1. Who is willing to pick up their cross? I knew Ann Voskamp would have something posted soon:).
2. How to talk to kids about race and racism: I want like all the lists of resources ever. For eventually when I have some space in a suitcase.
3. Love cannot look away: from my cousin or second cousin or something like that...from family:).
4. The false equivalency of the alt-right and Black Lives Matter: yes, I know there were "all sides," and yes, I saw hate and violence from both sides. And yes, that hate and violence was wrong: but to call them equal, or the same thing is also wrong. I understand that there are unbalanced and horrible people involved in BLM (and anti-fa, or whatever other groups were involved), but it is an important movement, and there are many important things to be learned from BLM, as well as many wonderful people involved in it (that I know and love). Looking at the heart of both sides (yes, both sides messed up!), I clearly see what is hate doctrine, and what is standing up for our brothers and sisters who have real needs and issues that need to be addressed.
5. My mother posted this video on Facebook, and I appreciated it. Especially the part about getting over the hot air of the press, and getting to the real race issues: education and prisons.
5. For our white friends desiring to be allies: from Sojourners
About everything else:
1. My favorite post I had to post on Facebook as soon as I read it because it couldn't wait: Dear future missionary: how to prepare for missions
2. Living as an acceptable outsider: it has taken a while to be okay with "acceptable outsider." But so true.
3. The art of belonging
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