Hello again, surfers of the internet! Guess what? In about a week, NANOWRIMO begins! Woo-hoo! Not to mention that I have nearly finished ANOTHER book–Missing! Of course, you probably don’t know about it yet. But let me just say this–it includes magic, dragons, mysteries and talking stuffed animals! 😀 Doesn’t that sound exciting? I hope it does. 😉 Well, okay, so I’ve been working on it for almost five years. That just means I started it when I was around six or seven. Anyway, I am very happy to have almost finished it–that means I get to start working on ANOTHER book! Yay! Of course, next will be my NaNoWriMo book–and then I’ll probably finish up the Three Tenderpaw (still considering a new title), and then maybe write a sequel to Dragon Girl. 🙂 Well, I haven’t got much else to say, both fortunately and unfortunately–fortunate...

Hello again, awesome blog readers! I am back from my 3-day trip with familia to South Sudan! We visited the coldest place within a less-then-three-hours flight from Loki, where there was mist, rain, fog, and ANIMALS! There were *deep breath* four puppies needing homes five kittens too young to go four cats staying there lots of fiesty chickens, how many, I don’t know one little home-needing pup a lot of strangers who liked to stare a determined group of adults holding it all up three dogs covered in hair six kids who were (not) a pain and lots and lots of rain!!!!! So, you get the idea. The four pups who live there (for now) have temporary names, and now I shall tell you them: Snookums, who I called Fluffy. She is fluffy and yellow and white and sleepy and loves attention. ZuZu, who is also called Zuz and Tiger-dog. She is also fluffy and black and brown and white and skinny and...

As it says: Pasta la vista, Nairobi and your people! I am actually kind of sad to be flying up and out of the big city and returning to home (for a day, anyway). It IS nice here–unlimited internet (I’m loading an internet game now), lot of people, and the COOLNESS (literally). And, I’m not a fan of airplanes, oddly enough, since my father is a pilot. At least we’re (hopefully) not going in the 206. Anyway, I am kind of excited to see our puppy (I call most dogs puppies) and our kitten (she’s beautiful!). And of course there are our fun-full neighbors, and the excitement of going on a retreat in South Sudan. Sadly, we are leaving today, BEFORE Olivia’s midterm is over! :O Luckily, she has friends in cold places, and they will gladly take her out to do fun things until she has to return to school. Here’s something else fun–I have a LEGO...

Hello again, peoples of the internet! Today is Wednesday, which is not too important, except that I am having a SLEEPOVER with one of my EXTREMELY good friends! Yipee! And then there’s co-op, and of course, today an important event happened–one of my dragons is officialy a teenager! Granted it was on a video game… But it made me very happy. 😀 So, anyway, not much is going on. Isaiah’s screaming, Jack’s talking gibberish, and I’m getting hungry. Also, I need to pack my bag. But instead I am writing to you. Because that is much funner. 😀 Soon I will go pack. But one more thing–last night I lost TWO teeth! Wow! Awesome! Right? 😉 Well, that’s all for now. WTYL, ~Grace~z~Artist 😉

Hello, Nairobi! Just a few days ago, we arrived here in the big city, after leaving our new neighbors at home in the desert. The new people, who just recently moved up to join us, are [probably] doing fine. We waited and prayed for a family to joint us in our lonely home, and finally, somebody has! Which means we are free to go places, like Nairobi, with no worries. Yay! More vacations! However, the reason we are here is (unfortunately) not to vacation, but to see my older sister, Olivia, who goes to boarding school near here. Her mid term is happening very soon, so of course we have to be here to see her. This is the long one, after all. Nairobi is not a bad place to wait, if you ignore the traffic (which means it takes an hour to drive a mile) and the pollution (it appears that sunset doesn’t end until sunrise). There are a lot of fellow missionaries and missionary kids here,...