http://open-dialogue.com/mandm Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:38:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First allow us to apologize for not updating this more frequently.  I'm afraid we ran into some hacker problems not too long after the last post, and lost all of our password-protected access until very recently, and since then we've been crazy busy. We are now living in the US again.  ... http://open-dialogue.com/mandm/2008/08/08/long-time-no-write/ Well, the new semester is off to a grand start!  Mike is back to work and generally busy and stressed out.  I'm staying home with Ioan - which is a big change from teaching 11th grade Pre-Calculus!  It's an adjustment, in more ways than one, but God provides.  In the ... http://open-dialogue.com/mandm/2008/01/23/a-whole-new-world/ Funny, "Happy Holidays" tends to be used in our 21st century society by groups who are trying to avoid the religious connotations of "Merry Christmas" . . . but the word "holidays" is itself a reminder that this is a time of year dedicated to praising and worshiping God. We are ... http://open-dialogue.com/mandm/2007/12/27/happy-holy-days/ Ioan Michael was born on Friday, December 7th at 4:25 PM.  We are both doing pretty well, and are all trying to get used to being a family of three.   My mom is here visiting and has been a huge help and encouragement.   It is really a blessing to have ... http://open-dialogue.com/mandm/2007/12/13/welcome-ioan/ If someone were to ask me what my favorite holiday of the year is, I would have to say "Christmas."  But I don't really mean Christmas Day, per se - I mean the whole Advent season.  (If I HAD to pick just one day, I'd probably end up saying Easter).  ... http://open-dialogue.com/mandm/2007/11/27/advent/ I've been meaning to send out a prayer letter for a couple of weeks now.  In the mean time, an up-date here will help with the silence a little bit. It's been a pretty crazy week here.  Mike preached at church on Sunday night.  His sermon was on Psalm 31, and ... http://open-dialogue.com/mandm/2007/10/18/end-of-quarter-craziness/ This weekend is "Korean Thanksgiving" - better known to our students as "Chusok" (pronounced "chew sock"). Actually, most of the North Americans here (including the US embassy) call it Thanksgiving, but from what I've heard it sounds more like Korean "Dia de los muertos."  (Uhm . . . how do I ... http://open-dialogue.com/mandm/2007/09/20/happy-thanksgiving/ Wow!  Here we are, back at the weekend of the big season-opening cross-country meet.  (One of the few conference-wide athletic events that our school can actually host.)  Anyway, last year at this time we were still overwhelmed with moving, getting into the swing of work, making friends . . . ... http://open-dialogue.com/mandm/2007/09/07/september-already/ So the name we've picked for our baby is Ioan Michael Lewis. It's pronounced Yo (as in yo-yo) an (as in peon). We picked it for several reasons. We didn't want an extremely popular name. It's not necessarily that we don't like the names that are popular, we just want to ... http://open-dialogue.com/mandm/2007/08/20/name/ This is the same as the prayer letter we sent out via e-mail, so if you read that you can skip this . . . Dear family and friends, Thank you for praying for me while I was on bed-rest during May and June.  Things are looking much better now, and my ... http://open-dialogue.com/mandm/2007/08/07/august-prayer-letter/