Our 18th
Anniversary -
We
celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary on November 22, 2015 by
going out for a quiet breakfast with real cappuccino at a restaurant not far
from our house. We then wandered through a local farmers market where I
purchased a beautiful cyclamen that sits in my kitchen window brightening up
the room.
Especially at this time of year, I am thankful for all that I have been given. I am truly grateful for my family and wonderful husband. Words fall short to express how blessed I am
to be doing life together with this funny and adventurous bunch I get to call family. Love
you all so much and am so thankful to be sharing in this great adventure with
you.
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| Family photo taken in October after my birthday dinner. |
Stephanie’s Biking Accident -
I have not updated the blog in a couple of weeks
and wanted to be sure and communicate with our prayer partners and supporters recent events. On November 19th Stephanie was sneaking a ride home on the back of my motorized
bicycle and caught her heel in the spokes of the back wheel. It was a pretty
traumatic injury resulting in a trip to the ER and 20 stitches/staples.
She is doing much better this week, getting the remaining stiches/staples out and
is off the crutches. We are praying for no infection and the skin to heal
together fully. The past couple of weeks have been stressful including trips to
the hospital regularly for her follow up care and coordinating that care with
translators from our small group and fellow teachers at KCS.
God has been faithful, providing the help we need but
it has been trying for all of us to be sure. We are grateful to God her
Achilles tendon, nor nerves were damaged and it is just a bad cut per the
doctor. Those of you who know Stephanie will appreciate her struggle to be on
crutches for a little over two weeks. This has really slowed her down and
caused her to rely upon all of us for even her most basic needs.
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| Ikoma City Hospital, Nara Prefecture, Ikoma, Japan |
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| Ikoma City Hospital entrance and waiting room. |
I cannot fully express how difficult it was in the ER
to not understand the physician who is caring for your child. I have prayed a
ton since her injury and relied upon God very heavily trusting He is looking
out for my child like only He can. I am grateful to God her Achilles tendon is
intact and was not severed. This has been a whole new level of trusting God
with my baby and leaning on Him for comfort and peace.
We are still going to the hospital weekly for her
follow up care and pray she will continue to heal quickly, without infection
and return to full activity soon.
Hope English Thanksgiving Dinner -
Onto a much
more enjoyable and fun topic - Thanksgiving Hope Chapel style. We had a
wonderful Thanksgiving celebration on Saturday, November 28th with our Hope Chapel
community. Since the Japanese do not celebrate Thanksgiving to speak of, and
the Pilgrim’s do not hold much significance for them, we worked on Thursday and
celebrated the holiday on Saturday.
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| Jonah, Betsie, Alex and Eddie at the Hope Chapel Thanksgiving Celebration. |
Some of you may have heard me bemoaning the fact I miss my American oven
terribly and not being able to bake muffins, bread or lasagnas this time of
year. I love fall and all of the amazing pumpkin recipes available when the
weather starts to cool. Well, my wonderful husband set about locating a
reasonably priced roaster oven (I say reasonably priced because if you purchase it here in Japan it is a small fortune) and had it shipped to the house a few days
before our Thanksgiving feast. So, kudos to my husband for locating the
best deal and planning for its arrival in time to roast a turkey for our
celebration.
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| Oh so grateful for this wonderful kitchen appliance. |
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| Let the turkey and pie eating begin! |
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| Kansai Christian Students and Hope Chapel guests at the Thanksgiving celebration. |
Many thanks and God bless you,
K. Chadduck
I've seen a couple of other events at other places, but this was my first time in here. It was amazing! Great venue, it's smaller than those bigger places but it is still a fair sized venue. Food at venues in Atlanta was great and I think it's recently renovated - it didn't seem old or anything.
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