Smith family blog

Hippo Song

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:46:29 -0500

So the title says it all. Rachel, our new teammate, taught Shaye this song one day and she hasn’t stopped singing it since. Enjoy!

(I didn’t compress the file, so let it download for a few seconds first)

Youth Group

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:01:03 -0500

Check out some new activity at our house each week. Article available at http://teamarequipa.net/stories/192-youth-group.

posted by Larissa

The Next Phase

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:51:31 -0500

Two things happened today for the first time that drove home, YET AGAIN, how old Shaye is getting.

1. She drew her first stick figure. “Look, Mom,” she says. “I drew a big daddy.” And so she had. (The circle in the middle is something about a shirt/stomach...we’re not sure.)

1. Oh, yeah, she has started calling me Mom. Not mama. Not mommy. Just Mom. We’re not sure why.
2. We caught her sitting on the stairs with her baby doll and a red marker. “Are you coloring on the stairs?” “No. Just my doll.” “Let me see.” She was coloring her dolls fingernails red. “I’m just making her pretty.”

Oh, boy.

One more picture, just ‘cuz. I love this family of mine!

posted by Larissa

Lent 2010

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:44:17 -0500

We have chosen to participate in Lent the last few years. I find that it is just a good opportunity to be more intentionally disciplined in one area of life for the purposes of anticipating Easter. One year we stopped eating desserts for the period. Another year we didn’t watch TV.

This year, since I am nursing a baby, food fasting didn’t seem to be the best idea. I considered what I wanted to be different about my day, and noticed something. Since Cora was born, I had spent lots of time sitting down while I nursed her...time which I used to read some good books my mom brought down when she visited. I realized I could just as well (better?) use that time to read the Bible instead.

So from last Wednesday until Easter, I am reading nothing but the Bible. This is significant, because I am through 6 books of a 7 book series, but I just ran out of time to finish that last one. Oh, well. My mom also brought me a reading schedule that gets you through the entire Bible in 88 days, so I am following that schedule. I just finished Exodus earlier this afternoon. I won’t be done by Easter, but I plan to continue through the entire plan. We’ll see what comes of it, but for now, I am enjoying it...noticing things in the story of God I had never noticed, simply because I hadn’t read it all together before.

How about you? Do you participate in Lent? If so, what are you giving up this year?

posted by Larissa

V-Day ’10

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:58:21 -0500

This years’ V-Day was pretty uneventful. We had a nice, simple family day and made a V-day appropriate dinner.

Here are pictures of our pepperoni-italian sausage calzone (thanks for the recipe Megan!). The italian sausage we made...it came out pretty good.

posted by Kyle