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Working!!
We have been busy getting back to work. My schedule is not as busy as it was but I am happy to back into the normal routine of life out here in Kijabe. I am back teaching at the Primary school and taking the Moffat students to Kijabe town for ministry. plus I have been up to Little Lambs a few times just visit and reconnect with the kids. i have also been visiting a few people in their homes. I went to John, Beth and Mwangi but they still have not come to spend the day with us yet. Our Sundays have been busy and while we were away their father had been taking them out to eat after church. As much as I want to see them I know it is better for them to go with him and truthfully they love their father and would rather go with him. i also visited the home of Moses, David Ng'a ng'a and Salome, whom I have mentioned in past blogs. Everything is ok at their house although ok might not be a good word for it. They are incredibly poor and their house is a shack but life goes on there inspite of it all. The children of the young mother who died right before we left were taken by their other grandmother accept one of them .. The little Nyambura, the one no one wants ( except for me!) because she is so sickly. So she stays there and is also ok there but when you think about how she could be it gets you down... so you don't think about it....
Our kids are doing great, except for some school stresses and DH is also busy with the work of LL, Moffat and the computer classrooms.....
Today I met with Bernice to see how we could fix the malfunctioning clasp on the Little Lambs bracelets. we also talked about some new designs ,so i 'll keep you posted on the new designs.
We also have septic problems which seems to be an ever occuring problem in this house.
Thanks again for checking out my blog!!!!
I'm back and I'm fat......
Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 03:25 - 4 Comments - Post Comment - Link
We arrived in Kenya late Sunday night then proceeded to wait over 2 hours to pay Duty and to if one of our pieces of luggage arrived. it didn't so we left. We went right to bed in our nice clean house (thanks to Virginia). We finally ventured out on Tuesday and , here comes the fat part, everybody who saw me proceeded to say how fat I was!!!! I have to admit it was a little hard to take,when I arrived at the primary school with all the kids and the headmaster telling me I was fat, Needless to say I am on a diet now!!! Anyway.... we are settling in well. The kids are happy to be back at school and Bruce and I start work on Monday. For now I am organizing , unpacking, etc. i feel confident that the issues that stressed me so much last time won't this time because I already putting into practice my resolves I made. i will tell you them only after I break one of them. i have seen most of my special people, but not all of them yet. More to come as the days go by
Back in the USA!!!
Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 09:11 - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
We are back in CT now and we are settled into our temporary life in the US. We are enjoying seeing family and friends but we still feel the tug to go back to our "home" in Kenya. In fact we aren't sure where home is anymore!!! Well we know where our true home is!!! i will taking a break from blogging until we return to Kenya and I will use my time to rest, relax and work on support raising. Thanks for reading my blog and I see you in October!!! Ellen
Busy, Busy , Busy!!!
To say the least we are busy!!! DH is busy finishing up his work, I am busy with my responsibilities and the kids are finishing up finals!! We have alot to do before we get out of here!! We are excited and we are feeling the need to get away from it all for awhile. I have had some very stressful things happening but I am working through them all. I will miss my neighbors, John, Beth and mwangi and my LL friends but I am reallly looking forward to seeing my CT friends and my family and of course mt neices and nephews!! Two years changes kids alot so we are looking forward to seeing our "little " friends changes and growth!!! I am so full of emotions about leaving and coming that it is hard for me to write it all. I am sick about leaving John, and Beth and mwangi but I am filled with excitement to see everybody and just sit and talk and catch up on 2 years worth of struggles and joys. RVA grad is next weekend and that following weekend is Moffat's. I have to say goodbye to my Kikuyu teacher and friend Tabitha Munyao. And to our special moffat student friends, Fredrick and Irene. Plus my nephew is back to the US for college. So we say goodbyes and hellos then goodbye again. Well that's it for now......Thanks for checking out my life Ellen
Life is good
I am doing much better this week after the tragedy of last week. Over that following weekend I had a busy weekend with the kids plus my neices stayed over and so did DD1's friend and DS1's friend. We went to Nairobi watched Rugby and ate out twice!! You all know how much I love to eat especially when I don't have to cook it!!!! During that week since it was still midterm for Moffat I was able to go up to Little Lambs and just hang out. Rachel, the director of that center taught all the girls how to knit so they were all busy knitting away and talking, talking, talking. it was good. Then the final thing that broke me out was our family friend, Givan , a Masaii, came over and one thing led to another and we were all jumping up and down in the living room( masaii are known for jumping high and straight up)!!!! I thought to myself, this is real and it is MY life and it is pretty cool!!!! So I feel better becuase as my friend Lori said to me on the phone one night "it is the joy of the Lord" . i still had a few stressful and frustrating things happen but I am ok. Today I thought I need a vacation from this place beause I felt tired but then I got home and I heard a chirping sound from our chicken coop and there was , just out of the egg, a wet little yellow chick!!! New life is all it's sweet innocence!! By tomorrow there should be more! So life is good. I love my hubby, I love my children and the new ones he has given me to love and I am loved by the One who created the universe so no more complaints (at least not today!!!) !!!!!!!
More burning tears for Kenya
I went to Nairobi to do some food shopping and on the way out of the city the matatu (small bus) about 5 cars in front of me hit and killed a young lady. I don't want to be gross but her face was like ripped off her and it was folded over on to the road. Her shoe was off and there on the side of the road was her friend who managed to get across the road without getting hit. I can't stop because it can be dangerous to get involved in situations like this, as they have a mob mentality. So I drove past her and sobbed almost the whole way home. There was apolice check about 1 1/2miles up the road so I stopped to let them know and do you know, the policeman was more interested in taking the food I had sitting on my passneger seat. I told him "there is a young girl dead on the road, shut my door!" I was so angry at the death and the police's indifference to the whole thing I felt like vomitting. I have been told in that one area where the road is narrow and there are hundreds of people walking on the road and running across the 4 lane highway that about 5 people die there a week!!! I can't forget it and I was so thankful my African children are growing up in the country not the city slums!!!! I saw Mwangi later that day and I just wanted to kiss his sweet face!!! My children will never have to run across highways but when I saw that girl there my heart ached (again) for the people who don't have the priveleged life we have. I also thought that girl had no idea that her life would end that morning as she went with her friend. Say a prayer for her friend who made it across the road, I won't forget her face either standing there shaking looking at that lifeless body left in the road. It is a bad day for sure, and today was a day that changed me inside and I am not sure it was in a good way.....
Work, spiderman and ice cream
We have been busy, busy working our usual activites plus a few added responsibilities for each of us so the term is going very quick. We had visitors from the US staying at Moffat, plus Bruce is helping another missionary set up his computer ministry and opening at least 2 more feeding centers with Moffat graduates. I am teaching STD 6 english while Mrs. kimani is out on maternity leave, and I am Dean of Women at Moffat this term.. Which means I need to have office hours!! Plus Bruce and I are Class sponsors for Levi's class this term and I am responsible for planning at progressive supper. Brenda, I need you!!!! Anyway it is all keeping us busy and I must say I feel like I am doing none of it very well but I feel like maybe that is Satan trying to make me feel defeated!! The kids are all fine, but Sadie's friend J.... R.... is leaving for Switzerland for the term so she will be bored without her. We saw Spiderman 3 this weekend in Nairobi and i was very surprised at the wonderful moral story it provided for the boys about the dangers of unforgiveness and also making good choices. I would definitely see it again to catch more of the message. i am busting with excitement about seeing everyone back "home" and looking forward to Friendly's ice cream. I hate the feeble atempt at ice cream here sO I really haven't had ice cream in almost 2 years. i am definitely an ice cream snob!!!
Living the mundane life God has called us to----- NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Life is going on here well. I thought I would wait and write until something very interesting or exciting happened and then I'd have something interesting to read but I realized that is not real life here in Africa. Our lives are very routined but not dull. The same yet always different. As is life all over the world. Life is as good as you make it. There will always be challenges and lulls but we are to keep pressing on into the unknown. The benefits of long term missions is seen in our lives. Seeing people day after day watching them grow up or grow old!!! I find great pleasure is seeing my African friends make good, godly choices in their lives. Short term missions misses the day in day out of living out our faith. and I have to remember they are doing the same watching of me living it out day after day!! I have found great joy these lasts few days in my African friends. My kids call Fredrick , a fourth year Moffat student "uncle Fred" and he loves it. He grew up in an orphanage so to be called Uncle thrills him to no end. We have Timothy, another Moffat student visit every day and we all enjoy his visits. There is Phoebe , jotham and Wanjiku are neighbors. John , Beth and Mwangi and their father who always bring excitement with them. There is our friends at the Dukas, our friends at Little Lambs and Moffat and Kijabe Primary. Just today I did the mundane task of getting gas for the car (it is a 15 minute drive straight up the side of the valley. On the way Sadie and I talked and sang together, waved at our Kijabe primary studetns friends, gave some of them a lift up the hill (including our John) got the gas came back waved again then stopped to say hello to our friends at LL then I brought Sadie to her friends house, who lives at RVA . Visited with them then I went on to the Dukas (shops) and had chai with my friend at MAMA Shikos and discussed the world's problems with 2 kikuyus and a masaii . Now I am home and it's only 12:00!!! The rest of the day is full as well and I am looking forward to the potential it holds!!! Life is good if you choose to let it be where ever you live!!!! " I came to give life in all it's FULLNESS" Jesus
Sharing cookies and stresses
I finally took David Ng'a ng'a to the eye hospital. Salome, his sister and Mirriam the teacher at LL with me. Good news.... It is just serious alergies and can be corrected and maintained with eye drops. We had a good time together and I want to tell a story about what happened while we were there. We had to wait outside the waiting room so another woman who was waiting offered Salome a package of 2 small "sandwich" type cookies so Salome opened the package and offered me one!!! She probably gets cookies once a year and she offered me one of the two.. Later the same lady offered David one and he , not knowing that his sister already had some , opened his package and broke the cookie in half and gave half to her and broke the other one in half for Mirriam and I !!! He got 1/2 a cookie!! I was blown away by this and told him he was a good young man. Then I went and bought then both a soda (another treat) to reward them!!! It was a good day and when we got back to their home we visited with their mother who was working in the garden when we showed up. You would never know that this woman is sick with a deadly disease but I guess when you have 8 children to feed you find the strength to throw that hoe over your head and back down into the hard soil. Other news.... we went to Moffat chapel to hear our friend, student David Rehani preach on 1 kings 19 (elijah fearly Jezebel and God comforting him and leading him through his trials). He used our friend Terry B as an example and his own troubles in facing civil war in his home country of Congo. He did an awesome job and we were proud of him and thinking Terry would be upset that he dared to compare her "light trials" to his trials of watching his people being murdered around him. But God gives grace to all in all trials. PTL. I especially needed to hear the sermon as we have had own our trials and stresses here in our world. But God is faithful and I am still trying to be faithful and trusting and loving to those who wrong me. God has shown me I need to stay strong in my love towards those who act in ways I find hurtful. To be honest , these past few days I have struggle to even like the very people we have been called to love and serve, There have been some bright lights that continue to shine but we have had more then our share of let downs. But again God has given me the renewed strength to carry on and may he find us faithful in word and deed.....
Recent happenings
As if i wasn't having enough problems with the sinus infection now I have a cracked rib!! I guess I cracked it coughing or blowing my nose, but it hurts!!! I am so sick of being sick!!!! I am coming to realise this a trial so I need to be patient and peaceful in my time of trouble. We have had some family time together in the past few days. We took the kids swimming at a nearby resort for the day then yesterday we took the kids to Nairobi to see Meet the Robinsons. It is about an orphan boy who wants a family. he gets on in the end so of course I cried. the kids start school next week and I hope to take Nga'nga (I mentioned him last blog) to the Eye hospital in Nairobi. Little lambs will pay for the visit. So that will be one day for me next week then Sadie starts school the following week and Kijabe starts in May. So does Moffat. that is it for now. Ellen
Please take a minute and read this true story of life here in Africa
Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 11:29 - 3 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Yesterday I went to visit 3 of our Little Lambs kids at their home. Their names are Salome, Gichoya and Ng'a ng'a. They are brother and sister from the same mom but all have different fathers. Their mom is HIV positive but seems to be "healthy" these days. She takes her ARVs so she remains relatively healthy. She got AIDS from sleeping around with men, some for money some because they took care of her for awhile. She sold wine and herself for years. She bore 10 children most don't have the same father. Now she still has 4 of her own at home and is raising 4 of her grandchildren. Her son and his "Wife" can't be bothered to take care of their own children. Salome is about 14 years old and is "blossoming". She is a beautiful girl with a sweet child like personality. She is top in her class, speaks perfect English and her future looks bleak. Her mother still entertains men in her home (when I came there were 2 there) and someday I worry that one of those men will notice the young beauty in rags outside washing the clothes. But I pray for protection and strength and determination on her part. Gichoya and Ng'a ng' are alos top in their class with perfect English. They are 13 and 15 years old and are quite handsome. There are few men in their lives but they are quite manly. Gichoya built a rabbit cage himself and raises rabbits as pets. he is proud of his rabbits and offered one to me as a gift. Ng'a ng'a has an eye problem that clouds up his eyes and hurts but he can see ok in school. there is no money to have them looked at so he has lived this way for years. As for their HIV status, no one knows. They haven't been tested because their mom " thinks they look ok" so who knows. They are healthy for the most part but only God knows their future. The grandchildren are skinny and of course wearing rags. Thier bellys are swollen from worms and when I was there the girl was sitting in the rabbit manure pile !! What can I do for these kids. Little lambs does alot for them by feeding them and loving them but what about the grand children? and the living conditions etc... I can love them and pray for them and visit them (that is a sign of great love here in this culture). I can hopefully bring him to the eye doctor for a check up but now the money is not here so I will wait awhile longer too. Maybe you can pray for them right now. These are 3 kids story , I could tell you about 3 kids with no mother and sporatic food on the table , or the girl whose mother refused to send her daughter to school so she could take care of the younger siblings or the girl who broke her hip and no one took to the hospital and now she is deformed. Or the boy who was burned with 3rd degree burns and left alone with physical and emotional scars but I won't, not today at least.....
Happenings here in Kijabe....
Last week I checked out other people's blog, what fun i had that night. We are a diverse bunch!! thanks to all the people who read and comment on my blog. what a surprise to see Tom M. reading my blog!!! The work team from the US is gone now, on their way back to the US after a trip to masaii mara. We enjoyed their visit but (truthfully) we are looking forward to a rest!!! we brought them up to little Lambs on Sunday and they had fun with the kids, our family went and we had fun together working on the food and enjoying them enjoying "our " kids. After having been here almost 2 years now I can honestly say they are "ours". We know their names, they family situations, we know some of their care givers, etc and this only comes from living with them. They know we are here with them and have comitted our lives to them and that makes a big difference!!! They ladies who run the centers are with us and us with them!! In fact the other day, they told me , they had never seen a white woman work that hard!1 I was highly complimented because if you saw how hard they work you would understand!!I told them "i am a mother of 5 children, i have to work hard!!!!"
This weekend is Easter and we will go to a sunrise service here at the station then have an egg hunt and eat dinner with the other Kinzer family. it will be fun!! Well that is it for now....
Problems with blogs, pangas and money
I haven't posted in awhile because AGAIN ,I was having problems with my blog so I will try again!!! RVA has closed until April 24th so the kids are home. DH and I are still working until next week. I am still teaching and Bruce has a work team here from the US for this week. they are redoing the Moffat admin building. It has been awhile since I updated this blog so I really don't know where to start!!! Last week, Virginia, the lady who works in my home , cut herself with a panga (machete). Last blog i mentioned the dangers of these things and then WHACK!! She goes and cuts her leg, even cutting the bone!!! Bruce went up to Machani to get her and I stayed with her in the emergency room then Bruce brought her back up in the pouring rain!!! needless to say, I am now doing her job and mine!!! I did dishes 4 times yesterday!!! And we produce alot of dishes at each meal!!! I am not rushing her back because she has a walk to work 1 hour each way so we can wait....
i have also had some discouraging things happen these past few weeks but I am learning that my hope is found in Christ not people. I have to constantly fight the bitterness of disappiontments in people you think you love and you think love you but they can't see past their own nose!! They also can't see past today so their decisions are always based on what is good for ME TODAY!!! Example... I was saving money for a man (it was his hard earned money) to be spent at a later time when the other money runs out . Well, he decided he NEEDED another cow ( he already has 3 cows!!) today so he took all the money and bought the un needed cow and in a month he will come wanting to borrow money!!!
Well I have to close, Lydia just fell down the stairs onto the cement floor!!
HELP wanted!!
Can someone walk me through the steps to putting pics on blog? We use APPLE. I'd love to post pics but I don't know how!! Anyway.... great news--Shilo's ears are no longer blocked and her hearing is n ormal!! We are so happy for her!! After the hospital her, Sadie and I went out to eat to celebrate then I visited at her home with her "grandmother" . She isn't really her biological grandmother but she has taken her in as her own. I just got back from the hospital. i finally went for m ore meds for my cold. while I was there I ran into one of my students, Eunice Wambui. The other day she cut her finger with a panga (machete). They were able to sews it back on but it looks bad now!! She is not the first kid I have met with scars from pandas. The children are required to cut and gather wood so they are often cut on their hands. when boys get to men men they do not collect wood but thegirls will continue to cut, collect and carry the wood on their backs. You should see the loads these women carry!!
We are alittle stressed here at home. Bruce and i are tired and Levi is very stressed about school. He doesn't like band but we are making him finish the term. He is not happy and he is in a terrible mood. I pray for him and talk to him but I think heneeds to work this out with God himself.
Thanks to our frineds at CFC for the donation towards the pastors book set. Now all of the Moffat students have over 60 of the best Christian resources available to help them teach and preach!! So thanks for that!!!
My schedule for the day plus other news
First of all , My blog was one of the ones that was affected by the hackers. So I am sorry to anyonewho had to see the awful picture on it. it makes you realize that the web is a great tool being used all over the world for good yet there are those who seek to fill it with filth. Anyway.... we have been busy as you know but these past 2 weeks we have been especially busy!!! Today for example here is my list for the day..... Wake up, get the kids ready for school, excercise , get myself and sadie ready for the day. Make chai for Little Lambs meeting, Take Sad... and her friend to school, bring Chai to meeting and visit for a few minutes w/0 appearing to rush off, teach at Kijabe primary school, go to Bethany and fill out forms for the Group home of the man who has 6 former street boys in his family, perpare lunch , eat with Bruce , Lyd... and Sad...,drop Lyd.. back at school, drive 15mins up the hill to get gas in the car and gas for Cement mixer, pick up Shilo and Gladys at LL and visit with kids there, temporaly solve a problem up there (long story), go to hospital with shilo to have peanut size ball of wax removed (there is still more so we will go back next week), have a reward soda with Shilo, meet Lyd... at school lib, pick up donations for the Moffat auctions at 2 houses, sort stuff out and bring to Moffat, Put away and feed chickens, make dinner (I made bacon and Tomatoes omellette) meet with Bruce and Machaa at Mama Chicku's about the problem at LL that occured earlier in the day, stop at Super Duka for TioletPaper, go home and visit with children and listen to "new" CD i got from the auction stuff with Kim, then go to bed. As I laid there I thanked God for all that I was able to accomplish and the fact that I was able to enjoy each responsibility and that my family was not squeezed out in the busyness. Of course you see I did no housework except cook and again, that is because Virginia stayed here and did all of it for me. I say this not to brag but to let you know blessed I am to have her here with us.
Other news... I was able to sell 10 bags of Charcoal for John, Beth and Mwangis father. I had a goal of selling 10 bags and I reached it and I also had the hope he would let me hold for him most of it, and HE DID!!! money management is a huge cultural problem here, if you have it , spend it is how 90% of the people live here. So now he has money when the charcoal runs out.
Other news.... my first born daughter is turning 15 tomorrow. Her dorm friends called to invite themselves over for her biirthday so tomorrow we will have dinner together. i thought it was so sweet how they asked if they could come over. Of course i don't mind and she'll love it!!! She is becoming quite the goal keeper in soccer, very agressive!!
other news...Gav... is totally into reading these days!!! At night we can't find him or hear him and he is in bed at 7 reading!!! He is into the redwall series. Lev.. has always been into reading and is very serious about school work. Lyd... reads too and is totoally into the Library thing ( hence the trip there today).
That's it i guess.. busy weekend here... Ki...'S friend will be here all weekend and my neices will be here saturday. Sat night is family skating night and Levi has a class party that I am asked to chaperone. I'd rather skate but don't tell him that, he is excited I will be there... Ellen
Weekend activites
Posted on Monday, February 12, 2007 at 08:13 - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
I am back to my old self now except for the cold I have. I am thankful for my health. Funny how that works, when you get sick you learn again to thank God for the ability to work and take care of others!! Bruce and Levi are away this long week end . They are climbing Mt Kenya wih some other fathers and sons. So we are here enjoying the relaxing mid term break. Yesterday we had J, B, and M over. I never really got to talk to Beth about salvation but we did have a great time together. The girls and her played Amer. girl dolls all afternoon. It reminded me of Terry's generous giving as I looked at Beth with "her" Addy and Sadie with her doll straped to her back by a blanket made by Terry. Mwangi played so nicely with the cars we have and John Played outside with the soccer ball. I brought them home around 4 and spent the night watching old VCR movies we haven't watched in years, like Madeline and Harriet the Spy. Tomorrow Gladys and I will take Shilo , a little lamb girl, to the Ear, nose and throat clinic put on at the hospital by visiting ENT doc from US. People wait all year for this team to come so we will be sitting there all day I am sure. She doesn't hear well and her school work is suffering. I also have to take the time to play a trick on Beth. She wants chips from the duka (chips are french fries) because she is getting tired of the beans and maize she eats everyday at the feeding program. Remember this is the girl who dies of embarassement to be seen with me. So I told her if she wanted chips at lunch I would stand near the feeding line and if she came up to me and kissed me on the check I would give her the money for the chips. Of course I am not really going to make her kiss me but we will have fun with it, or I should say John and I will !! She has quite a personality. She likes to fool around alot but she doesn't like to be the one who the joke is on at all !!! They all have fun personalities, yesterday By mistake John hit Mwangi in the face with a ball and john is saying sorry and mwangi turns and chases him to beat him and I am yelling "remember Mwangi how John took a beating for you at school defending you." It was funny to see the whole scene but I guess you had to be there to find the humor in the whole thing!!!
I'll let you know if Levi made it to the top. I am proud of him even if he doesn't because he was even sicker then me last week!! Got to run !!! Ellen
Big Continent, Big Viruses!!
Everything is bigger in Africa, including the viruses!!! Monday I took Meg our visitor down to Mai Mahiu to see the other LL centers and as the morning went on I started to feel worse and worse by 3:00 I told Abraham and Meg it was time to go home!! By the time we made it back home I was in full swing of the attack!!! I spent the next 3 days in bed having NO desire at all to leave it!! it is now Sunday night and I am still trying to regain my energy. I told someone WWIII could have started and I wouldn't have known or frankly cared at all. My whole world consisted of me and my bed. Meanwhile Levi and Kimberly got the same bug and were also suffering but I didn't care or should say couldn't care at all!!! i am so glad that I am on the repair and back in the world of other people!! I am also thankful Meg never got sick!! This is here final week and we will go full swing again on Monday. I am looking forward to seeing my little friends again!! I know they were concerned for me and praying for me. Please keep J, B and M in your prayers, particularly Beth. she has been behaving badly in school and she has been getting alot of beatings in school because of it. I want to talk to her about the fruit of a sinful man and the fruit of a saved person. I think she has NOT accepted the Lord in her life yet, mainly because she really has never heard the story as her father kept them out of church for a few years. Pray also for their father , he has been gone alot (doing I don't know what!!) and it is hard on the kids and John in particular as he then becomes the parent to his siblings. If you could say I quick prayer right now that would be a help.Thanks for reading my blog and caring enough to remember me way over here!!!!
ABC's
Just a quick note to say what is going on here... Today I started teaching some big boys at the school how to read. We are starting at the beginning even though they are in 6th and 7th grade. Pray for me and them as i teach them English. They are Mugai, Mwangi, Moses and Hannah Njeri. They are write letters but don't have a clue the sounds they make. Pray I will be able to handle the work load of an extra activity. I asked God to have this work because i feel i great burden for these kids. it worked good around my family scedule but I don't want to take on too much.
We have a visitor coming from the US. She is a young lady from NY. We are so excited about her visit and are looking forward to showing her our life here in Kenya. I just hope she isn't bored. Some of what we do here is far from glamorous!!!! In fact her first day here I will spending the morning with Abraham getting him set up with putting up my new curtains!!! oh well, this is real life, isn't it?!
We hope to take her to nairobi a few times and also to a game park as well as coming along side us in the work we do.
Got to run....
Thoughts on blogging........
I couldn't sleep last night so I spent my time reading other people's blog on this site. I have made some observations-first, how hard working you ladies are!! It seems that the ones who call themselves Christian tend to be the most busy with caring for their families and also they are very creative!!! Some do quilting, baking, and beading and there are are alot who are taking household management to a whole new level. Keep it up ladies!!!!
the other thing I realized is how much someone can learn about me on my blog..... Most of you say DH for husband and DD for daughter etc.. I didn't do that and I'm wondering if you should have. I am aware that I can edit my blogs, but should I for the sake of others I have mentioned. All of the Kenyans I ahve mentioned don't have computers but maybe someone who knows them does and google names as a hobby like I do!?!?!?!!
Well that was a quick thought. I finally got to check out some of my online friends sites out and it was interesting to me that if you were my neighbors we would probably be best friends!! So lets keep this blogging thing up and continue to encourage and pray for each other and also continue to "spur one another on to good deeds" because people are watching our lives and our blogs!!!
Joy comes in the mourning
As you know I have been mourning the loss of Terry and various other things and last Friday night God gave me the gift of laughter. Our boss' daughters came home from the US for a short visit and they surprised me!! My hubby knew they were coming but everybody kept it a secret from me. Well, these young ladies are FULL of joy and fun and all this week we have been laughing together!! Last night thier brother a student here at RVA had us all laughing so hard we thought we would bust!! As I thought about that fun night I said Thank you God for that gift you gve me and my family last night!!
We are up and running at full swing here in Kijabe so I will keep you posted on our activities. Right now i am off to the primary school to start another year there teaching Christian Religious Education. I love teaching the bible and I really think God has used that work to get me into the community and develop deep relationships with whole families here in Kijabe....
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