Sorry, we must be a bit like a stuck record but this darling wee girl is the highlight of our days and gives us such joy. She has diarrhoea at the moment so please pray for her so that she doesn't lose weight.
Well one week of the holidays is over and we have survived, only 9 more to go... We find that we get little time out during the holidays as there always seems to be at least one of the boys hanging around home and at times there are up to twelve!! However, we do have our moments of joy, especially watching Richard try to ride a bike, and getting a lovely bunch of flowers from the threee volunteers here at the moment.
On Thursday we went with Alex to his school to appeal a decision they had made for him to repeat the year. We filled in a request for special consideration which will be decided on Jan 4th. It was interesting being on the 'other side' of the 'begging' process, in the past people have been asking me for special consideration. I bought all the skills I had picked up listening to others, so who knows.... We went out with Alex & Simon for a nice lunch afterwards, their Christmas dinner from us.
Alex and Simon came here on Saturday to skype Sherrilyn & Deane, they were here by 9am (which is 7pm NZ time) but the best laid plans are set aside when the network is down and you can't connect. The network came back at 2pm (midnight NZ time) so they missed. It was nice having a day together though. They stayed and looked after the boys on Sat. night as we had the staff 'Christmas do' that evening. An interesting evening with over 100 people there with an exchange of gifts where we were each given one other person to buy for as a 'secret'. I got a lovely short sleeved striped shirt and Marilyn a wonderful African outfit which will be fine once she has taken in the seams.
Sunday evening was interesting as we went to a meeting with the other missionaries to sort out the programme for Christmas. Guess what..... we celebrate TWO days of Christmas with activities. Our contribution on Christmas day will be a drama with the children (a Pagaent) in the morning, and in the afternoon to organise activities for the children after lunch from 2pm -3.30pm. On 2nd Christmas we will have some time with just the boys in the morning and organising more games and activities in the afternoon. No laxing out after a roast dinner lunch for us this year (Marilyn, what's a roast dinner taste like?) and no blobbing on Boxing day either. The 27th could be different though!!!!
The blog is later than usual this week as we have had variable power and we thought we'd show you the decorating of our Christmas tree which took place tonight. You can see Richard, Owen and Ezra decorating the tree, and the boys singing carols afterwards.
Papa and Mama returned from their trip, very happy to be home and also very tired. Peit had driven 12000kms in course of 6 weeks and had put on considerable weight. He has spent his time since his return chasing up the workers to get tasks finished before Christmas, but I fear he is running out of days. Please pray for the workers here, as many take time off for holidays prior to Christmas so that they will be here on Christmas day and this places a strain on the work now.
Also pray for Ischa as she is struggling with her breathing and is on oxygen fulltime now, and there are a number of other children unwell, Manessah,Jeremy, little Joshua, to name some.
Please also continue to pray for good health for and an extra portion of patience and wisdom for us as we deal with the day to day issues with the boys. If you know of anyone who might consider coming over to take on the girls family unit please let us know, we can tell them how much fun it is. Please pray for this role as the house is nearing completion and the girls are looking forward to shifting in.
Well, that's all for now, we hope to write our Christmas letter to send soon, until next time
Our love to you all
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