In March 2019, after a very very long two months of absolute madness at the apartment with Dave Paladino under so much fire for the condition of his properties and all the subsequent upset that had affected us and our neighbors so much, we felt the need to call the parents of all our families…
Here's some stories and photos from January (and even December) that I had written down as they happened at the time. I'm sharing this before I document the craziness that started after January 24th when the health department came to our apartment and everything changed. Here are some ups and downs from the very start…
Yes, it's the middle of July 2019 and I'm just now catching my breath to remember that seven months ago in January, I wrote out some memories and thoughts from the end of 2018 that I never posted. As so many of you reading this already know, 2019 has been really really hard to say the…
In my last blog post in September, I sort of ended with a brief statement of the shut down of the Yale Park apartments and then went into a story of one of those families from YP moving in with her sister and my upstair’s neighbor, Hser Boe Paw, and how the week they moved…
A sweet five year old in the apartments Htee Moo (not to be confused with the 20 year old Moo Tee), needed some serious dental work done. She had an initial dentist appointment where they told her she would need surgery. The poor girl and her mom had had zero dental hygiene education up until…
Easter Sunday in our Karen dresses. ❤ Two women I taught English to every weekday morning for six months. Love them.After attending an educational award ceremony for Day Mu (in the red), we celebrated back at her apartment. Spending one of the first nice days of 2018 outside with some of my favorite women. Day Mu…
I want to first answer a few questions right away that may clear up some things, as I have gotten these on many occasions in the last several months and then I have jotted down as best I can some stories and moments that have really impacted me in the last nine, almost ten months,…
I know I've talked about how I spent a lot of December and January feeling sorry for myself in the last couple of blog posts. I had friends leaving the church, friends moving states away, friends struggling with mental health, a torn marriage in my family, health issues of my own, no clarity about the…
Three weeks ago I wrote about being back in the states for a month, the challenges that have come with that, how my health has been, and a small picture of where my head and heart have been too. I never reread it after I wrote it, but I know I wrote it as a…
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January 12, 2018 It has been one month since we landed back in the United States after 4 months and four days abroad, 126 days. We had quite literally flown around the world from August until December, from the Midwest to Ireland to Greece to Thailand to Japan and then back home. This month has…
Robbie + Chase 