What's happened...?

I hate that this blog might be the way I have to tell some of you this, and yet at the same time, I don't quite feel up to the conversations that I have to have with each of you. I want you to hear this from me, but don't yet know what to say. I've left Praying Pelican Missions. I love what they do, who they represent, and the many friends, brothers, and sisters that we've met thru them, both here in the States and in Belize. But for reasons still not entirely understood, I've stopped working for them. I pray that God will continue to grant them success in open doors to new trips and new connections and lives touched both in participants and villages and communities in Belize. Though some of our most challenging times as a couple, Mike and I will both desparately miss our time spent and people loved this past summer. I've thought about changing our blogsite, but I'm not quite ready for that, so keep M & M'ing with us, even though we're not in, and probably won't be going back to Belize. The lovely Marin, famous for her upstairs diner on Caye Caulker taught me a few sayings this summer. There's a saying in creole, the more native "English" they speak in Belize, that Marin taught me that says "sea breeze blow pilikin same place 'e wan' go," which literally means "the sea breeze will blow the pelican to the place he wants to go to." Mike and I are riding this breeze, we don't yet know where it will take us, just that it's where we want to go.

Reunion...

The Belizean Bathroom...

By popular demand, I've been telling some of you about my plans for my Belizean Bathroom, and I'm pleased to say that it's completed! I collected a couple of items on my travels in Central America, printed a couple of pictures, and voila! The color is "azure afternoon," I always like color names. And this one seemed very appropriate, does remind me of a few afternoon skies in Belize. The shower curain is a sarong with little yellow geckoes all over it; the pictures are of some beautiful scenes Mike and I saw, a sunrise, a sunset, a waterfall in the jungle over the entrance to St. Herman's Cave, some bougainvilla (what's all over Anaheim BJ), and three sisters and a brother from Valley Community. And the hooks by the sink are from the Toucan Gift Shop on Caye Caulker. Come see
it in person! Mike says it's the best looking room in our apartment, that's kinda sad, I know, but it's the only place I was brave enough to paint in our apartment. And Sally really likes to wreck the TP for some reason, only in that bathroom... Crazy cat.