Last week I joined a club. It's called the Mothers' Club, and it meets at Braden's school on Tuesdays. Any mom of a student at the school can come. It's actually a cooking class led by the wife of the school's principal. They are a Turkish couple, so each...

Today was a really sad day. I left on the early boat to meet with a friend on the main island. Just as the boat was pulling into the harbor, Angie sent me a text message. “Got really really really bad news- Buzz is dead. Don't know what to...

Today was a nice day of rest for some of our family. Today is Saturday so Angie and I were able to sleep until 8:00AM this morning. It was great. The kids got up earlier as it is their usual routine. We have our family meetings on Saturday mornings....

This is Buzz. Kyndal got this little guy for her birthday. Yes, we have rodents on our island.nn...

Well, we're coming to the end of our third week of school and for this homeschool family, it's been a challenge to master the tasks of getting the ponytails up, hair gelled, shoes on, and teeth brushed for the 7:10 bus ride to the 7:20 ferry ride. Check. We're...

Yeah, I'm getting huge. Yeah right. When we moved to the islands, we used these very strong but very light plastic trunks we bought from Wal-mart. Since there are no closets in our house, we use the trunks for storage, so we have them everywhere. We gave some of...

Bet when you saw the title of today's entry, you figured Bobby was teaching one of the kids to take over the blog. You'd be wrong – it's me, Angie! I'm giving this blogging thing another shot, now that my schedule is so “freed up!” Actually, in the past...

I hope you have a great day....

If you have known me for any length of time, you probably know that I am an idea guy. I love ideas. The other day, I walked into the kitchen and said to Angie, “Hey, I just had an idea.” She said, “I should have known you just took...

I cannot describe how excited the kids are to go to school. One of them is a little bit nervous about it… I'll let you guess who that is. The school has called us three times today. They don't seem to be very efficient in their phone calls. There...