by Lulu Stories | Feb 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily I live in a tiny village north of the US border, tucked amongst snowy fields and red silos. I look out my window and see deer walking down our road. And across the highway, a huge Co-Op. It’s a Co-Op that offers everything from gloves to paint to...
by Lulu Stories | Feb 5, 2018 | Happenings in Uganda, Uncategorized
It was Ontario, mid-summer. I was 27 and weeding my mother’s flower bed while she lay inside, comatose. She’d been asleep for 30 hours. She was sick with brain cancer and my husband and I had decided to move close to my parents to take care of her. And that’s when I...
by Lulu Stories | Jan 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily The Lulu Tree was born four years ago in Uganda, in the midst of one of the hardest years of my life. A year in which I had every reason to stop believing. But I clung. My husband and I clung. The Buddhists say to cling is to suffer. Christians,...
by Lulu Stories | Dec 18, 2017 | Happenings in Sierra Leone
By Mommy Emily We arrive to a throng of people alive with hope the color of the lush green forests around them. They begin few – three miles out – a few young men and boys able to run the distance. Then they’re joined by school children in blue...
by Lulu Stories | Dec 4, 2017 | Happenings in Sierra Leone, Uncategorized
By Mommy Emily We arrive in the evening, after 24 hours of flight. We arrive to the roar of a motorboat taking us across the waters to the mainland of this west African country founded by former slaves. We’re ushered into the country by boys who scramble to...
by Lulu Stories | Nov 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Post by By Erica Hale, VP of The Lulu Tree I sweep pie crumbs from the counter into my open hand, wipe the sticky remains of cranberry sauce from the table. We’ve spent this week in thankful fellowship, the sound of laughter rising up above the warm scent of...
