It's true that laughter is the best medicine. Having said that, one of our favorite "get a good laugh" songs on Savannah's ipod is a country song by Brad Paisley, maybe? Anyway it's called, "I wanna check you for ticks." OMG...LOL for sure! What's crazy is to think that someone actually wrote that...seriously?!? At any rate it cracks us up! It took on a whole new meaning this week when we discovered my girls had lice. UGH! What an ordeal. If only we had a Walmart to run to and quickly find a removal kit! If only!!! It took me all morning long to find something. Four shops and two parking fees later I finally found some lice killing lotion. I had to find a whole in the wall shop referred to me by a "friend of a fiend" kinda thing to find the "fine tooth combs" to use. It was the kinda shop where you look thru a literal "whole in the wall" and point to what you want hanging on the walls as display. The vendor then disappears behind the curtain door and returns minutes later with your items to purchase. So, even tho it took 3 hours to find what I was looking for, we finally returned home with the "goods." Bless them...my girls are troopers. I lathered them in the "6-8 hour leave on lotion." Not wanting to take any chances I wrapped plastic bags on their heads. I figured whatever the lotion couldn't kill a lack of oxygen would! In 80+ degree weather...that was miserable but they were such fun about it all. That is, until we had to do the come thru to get out all the eggs. UGH! What a job! Praise the Lord tho..I believe we have conquered! We combed and combed for the past several days, changing bed linens every day and praying for God to give us victory over this pestilence. I'm not sure I can listen to the "Tick" song for a while. It hits too close to home. :-)
The house is coming along...YAY! What a week it has been. Each day is a victory and we have to choose the positive. The workers leave one day and then don't show up until they feel like it. That's frustrating enough but they don't even call to say they are not coming. My kitchen cupboards are still not finished. It's been months. There is only one more step left in the process but they don't seem to be in a hurry to finish it. The positive thing is...what IS in really looks great. Our friend and local builder, Brandt, hooked up lights and they work. It was so exciting to see the house lit up. YAY! One step closer to moving in. Except for the floors...an ongoing challenge...we have really only the toilets and sinks to hook up. We put on doors and managed to paint the floors upstairs. Even after the leftovers from the previous flub ups of bad varnish on the stained concrete, they surprisingly look pretty good. We'll varnish over the paint to protect it from chipping. I truly have no idea how this will work out in the end but we'll see. It's the cheapest alternative. The problem is, we don't know anyone who has ever done it and the local paint vendors don't seem to think it will work. At this point and with our budget...it's our only option. So, we paint and trust. :-) The downstairs is a whole different story.
For the past two months we have been desperately scraping up the bad varnish in an attempt to recover the really cool concrete stain we used. Unfortunately, I think it's past recovering. We have a friend who sells parque (sp)? wood tiles. He's giving us a good deal. It's not in the budget right now but we are trusting in faith it will be there. It would be nice to have wooden floors as opposed to hard, cold concrete. So, for the main living/dining room areas we will do that. The other areas will be painted concrete. That's exciting! Lord willing, in a few weeks we move in! Yippee! Christmas in our new home! That's a gift in itself!
On the ministry side of things, God continues to amaze us with all that He is doing thru our church planters. They have such a burden to reach their own people and God is blessing that! We recently found out that 4 of the 5 families planning to come to the training in January had to back out. Apparently it's planting season at the first of the year and they simply can't miss out on that. That could be a bit discouraging but Todd and I truly believe God has something else in store. We're trusting it's b/c He has other people in mind that He is going to bring us. The training is due to start the first of the year. Please stand with us in trust that God is going to bring us just the right families to be trained. In the meantime we work with our field coordinator, Robert Mollel, putting together enrichment lessons for our current church planters. He also is part of the team that does research and survey trips into the unreached tribes and helps in the selection of future trainers. God has a great vision and destiny for the people of Tanzania. We are thrilled to be called to be a part of His mission to reach the lost here.
Well, it's a gorgeous Saturday morning. So easy to embrace the day when it's this sunny and inviting. Tanzanian mornings are so peaceful. I wake up early to the sound of a donkey in the distance. Sunshine and coffee await me as I boot up the computer to catch up on emails and blogging. Soon one or all of the kids will be waking up..overjoyed that it's not a school day! I'm always really popular on Saturdays around here when I'm just plain 'ol mom and not "teacher" mom. :-) I just love saturdays.
Oh...here comes two of the kids...I'm just so loved on.... no school!! :-) Time to begin our Saturday. Yippee!!!
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