It’s been far too long—our apologies for that. Though in our defense, we’ve been rather busy (as you can see from the previous post).

As to that—yes, Lorraine is pregnant. She’s due in early October. No, we don’t know the gender, but we’ll tell you when we do. We’re excited, of course, and we’re enjoying the adventure of doing all this in a foreign country. But not all of it—we return to the States in mid-June, in plenty of time to have the kid on American soil, surrounded by grandparents and whatnot.

And that leads me to the other thing keeping us busy these days. Returning to the states and having a child means we will need jobs, in order to earn money to purchase the the various baubles and foodstuffs that such children are expected to have these days.

That’s going fairly well. I’ve got an interview lined up for a couple weeks from now, and have been sending off about a resume a day for the past couple weeks. You can’t have too many opportunities, though, so if you know of anyone looking for online marketing help, let me know.

Lorraine, meanwhile, is looking for a part time job, preferably doing church music, or doing some sort of upper level teaching.

In the meantime, though, we’re still loving the teaching. We’re also loving the break from it–due to some odd Brazilian holidays, we have Tuesday through Thursday off this week.

Friday is the International Fair, which Lorraine has been organizing. Hopefully we’ll have some pictures and/or video up about that this weekend. It should be a good time.

In a couple weeks, we’re taking the 9th and 10th graders to São Paulo for Week Without Walls. We’ll be doing some work in an orphanage, sightseeing and spending time building relationships with the students. We’ll be going with another couple from the school who, coincidentally, also learned recently that they’re expecting.

And on another note, I’ve put up some pictures from our recent trip to the Rio zoo on Flickr.

Please be praying for us in all these things, and that we finish our time in Brazil well.