Sorry I’ve been away so long.  I haven’t been literally away.  I just got busy doing other things and so didn’t blog.
So here’s an update on the news in my life:
In early February Jeremy came home for a couple of days.  That was a surprise.  He literally didn’t know until the day he came home [...]

Friday night at church the conversation turned to glasses and I mentioned I needed to visit an optician (where you buy glasses).  The pastor, Majdi, who is a doctor, volunteered to take me to the shop he deals with.  I accepted.  So the next day, Saturday, he and his wife, Margo, and his son Mark [...]

The President of the United States of America visited the Kingdom of Bahrain!  Isn’t that way cool?  And I never even got to see him either.  That’s way NOT cool.
I’ve known about it for days, but I’ve delayes saying anything until it was over.  Yes, it’s public knowledge and has been in the papers for [...]

It rained tonight!  Actual, honest-to-goodness water coming down from the sky!
I’ve been here since the end of June and this is the first time it has rained (that I know of).
It started as people were leaving church.  The kids were so excited.  They acted just like small children back home do when it snows for [...]

Well, Jeremy’s mother was here for a week.  That’s why I haven’t written for a week–we’ve been busy showing her the town.  She went back today.  It was really nice having her here.  We took her shopping and we took her to church and she cooked Thanksgiving dinner for us.  That was awesome!  And we [...]

On Veteran’s Day Jeremy and I went boating. A man from the church named Yusef invited us to come on his boat and go fishing with him. He loves to fish. Just the other day he caught a barracuda. So we went. Jeremy drove.
Yusef sat in the back trawling. [...]

I posted this information on the “About the Subtitle” page, so if you’ve already checked that out, my apologies for repeating information.
I took the header picture (picture at the top of the blog) on November 11, 2007.  My husband, Jeremy, and I went boating, and I took the picture from the water, facing back to [...]