Just popping in for a minute. Life is never boring around here, I'll say that! Last week Thursday, our puppy Minga, managed to chew just the slightest bit on the computer cord to our last functioning computer. Eeeehumm. Yeah. Remember, Noah's computer complete bit the big one about a month ago.
After looking at about 6 stores here and in San Jose, we didn't find a single power cord that fits the computer. But!! A friend offered to get us one in the States, and there happend to be a missionary that we know in the States who is coming back to Costa Rica tomorrow. And another missionary friend who lives close to the first missionary friend is coming to see us on Saturday and she is bringing the new cord with her. We hope.
I have been able to limp along with our kindle fire, sorta kinda updating facebook (with tons of auto correct nonsense...seriously! I hate it!), but I can't call the US with our magic jack or skype or really even email effectivly. Noah has been able to bring his work computer home at night...but ummmm, did I mention, the camp season started Monday. And if you will remember with me, camp equals crazy work schedule/time without Dad/Husband. Ummmhummm.
So, while I have tons to tell you about making tamales, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, sledding in Costa Rica and all sorts of other fun stuff...it will all have to wait until I have my computer back.
In the mean time, leave me a comment and tell me your worse tech related story.
Showing posts with label Dog. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Meet...
I wanted to say something about this earlier this week, but wanted to wait until we were totally sure this was going to come to pass, but we added to our family this week. Yes, we have clearly lost our minds. Meet Minga.
You know, there are just some things you do as a parent because of the benefits for your kids. We have always felt strongly that kids need a pet. There are so many life lessons wrapped up in taking care of, loving, doing what's best for the animal when you're not in the mood. Lessons about life and death that are important. And with three boys, well, it just seemed like a boy needs a dog, right? Plus my husband has always wanted a dog to follow him everywhere, to play fetch with, and to take for rides in the car. I said to him today, "Wouldn't it be fun if you could take her to camp once in a a while?" To which he had this big goofy grin and said, "Yeah!"
A bit more about this chica. She is about 8 or 9 weeks old golden retriever pup. She was given to our landlady, who already had a dog and wasn't crazy about adding to the mix. Noah had been praying that God would show us the right timing for a puppy, and I think he even prayed something like, "Lord, if you want us to have one now, have a puppy show up on our doorstep." This was pretty stinking close. She is the right breed, the right age and the right price, free!! We also discovered there is an animal rescue just a few minutes down the road and they have a pet store and a vet. We stopped by there today and learned that spaying will only be about $16! That's great!
We have been telling the boys for over a year now we would get a dog when we got settled. Last year on our walks to and from school the boys would look at different dogs from their stroller and say things like
'Oooh, I like that dog!" Or " We don't want a dog like that!"
People have asked about her name. Well, last year, when Elliot (then 2 1/2) learned the song Bingo, he came home and told us he wanted to name a dog Mingo. In Spanish, "o" endings usually are masculine, so we thought we should change it to Minga. So, nothing terribly significant, but fun non the less.
And now I am not the only girl in the house!!
You know, there are just some things you do as a parent because of the benefits for your kids. We have always felt strongly that kids need a pet. There are so many life lessons wrapped up in taking care of, loving, doing what's best for the animal when you're not in the mood. Lessons about life and death that are important. And with three boys, well, it just seemed like a boy needs a dog, right? Plus my husband has always wanted a dog to follow him everywhere, to play fetch with, and to take for rides in the car. I said to him today, "Wouldn't it be fun if you could take her to camp once in a a while?" To which he had this big goofy grin and said, "Yeah!"
A bit more about this chica. She is about 8 or 9 weeks old golden retriever pup. She was given to our landlady, who already had a dog and wasn't crazy about adding to the mix. Noah had been praying that God would show us the right timing for a puppy, and I think he even prayed something like, "Lord, if you want us to have one now, have a puppy show up on our doorstep." This was pretty stinking close. She is the right breed, the right age and the right price, free!! We also discovered there is an animal rescue just a few minutes down the road and they have a pet store and a vet. We stopped by there today and learned that spaying will only be about $16! That's great!
We have been telling the boys for over a year now we would get a dog when we got settled. Last year on our walks to and from school the boys would look at different dogs from their stroller and say things like
'Oooh, I like that dog!" Or " We don't want a dog like that!"
People have asked about her name. Well, last year, when Elliot (then 2 1/2) learned the song Bingo, he came home and told us he wanted to name a dog Mingo. In Spanish, "o" endings usually are masculine, so we thought we should change it to Minga. So, nothing terribly significant, but fun non the less.
And now I am not the only girl in the house!!
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