Pretty Darn Quick

August brought me home unexpectedly. Jesse was told he would be deployed to Kuwait and Grandma was still fighting her way through her stroke. My two weeks we packed with visiting family and Friends and essentially saying goodbyes or c-ya later’s. I am happy that I did make it home and was able to spend the night with my dad and grandma caring for her even if it was only one night.

Time never stops, not even in Honduras! August flew by and before I knew Jesse’s birthday September 1^st was here! September for Central America is a very important month. There is Dia de la Bandera, Flag Day; Dia de Independencia, Independence Day; Dia del Nino, Day of the Child; and It is the month of the Bible! The month is celebrated with many desfilas, or parades, which the kids got out of the last 45minutes of class everyday for two weeks to practice, marching around our little loop. This year we had another school from Trujillo come—they had a marching band, we don’t—as well as the mayor of Trujillo among our special guest! It was a kinda a big deal :D

I also had a trip to San Pedro Zula with one of our kiddos for a special consult, which made me feel like I was in several scary movies that Lily (another volunteer) and I joked about—The Ring, Casper the Friendly Ghost, and Sleepers—to name a few, eek! But we made it safely home to the Farm in quite Trujillo with an even deeper appreciation of the Farm.

There was also much planning and preparing (house cleaning day and switching of roommates) for the new missionaries who arrived on September 31^st just in time for the Feast Day of St. Therese, the patron Saint of missionaries, our house Saint. All seven arrived with open eager hearts. It has been very interesting to be on the other side of the fence this year; to watch them in their awkwardness as they discover how to use the bathroom for the first time or try to speak to the kids in their broken Spanish. There are so many things I didn’t realize I too had to learn; that I didn’t arrive knowing all I do now about Honduran culture or the finca. It is an eye opening and humbling experience, two things I am always grateful for but at the same time is always hard to see.

 One example: After a whole year (yes I have been here a whole year already!) I feel like I have gotten the hang of my job, which I know what is being asked of me and I generally feel like I am delivering it. But A couple weeks ago another missionary had told me about some of the complaints from some of our neighbors; it was hard not to take it personally, but I needed to hear. If the needs of our neighbors are different from what I am doing I need to know that. It was a bit uncomfortable at first but changes are being made and already I am happy with the outcomes and can tell my patients feel better attended to. God uses our weaknesses and short comings for good as well; He never ceases to surprise me that is for sure!

In this new groups comes…another…NURSE!!!! Yeah!!! I am so excited to have a companion in my job my last year. I think we will work well together and she is very excited to jump in! So please pray for her, and the others, as they are getting oriented to the Farm and their jobs, and their new lives here.

I miss you all and love you all dearly. Please continue to keeps us in your daily prayers. You are all in ours, SERIOUSLY!!!

Deij

Excitement at the Farm:

The day I came back from the States we had a tropical storm-it rained for two days! Rainy season is on the way which also means: cooler weather, (yeah!) and more sanqudos or mosquitoes.

I brought back glittered heart shaped clips for house 1 and 2 girls, it was only a matter of hours before they had regular-ed them (gave them away) to other vols and their friends!

9^th graders Nolvia and Nelly just started geometry and trigonometry which makes me excited to go to study hour with them. And 1^st graders are becoming more proficient in their English and often respond in English in interesting ways. This Thursday and Friday I will be teaching 3^rd and 4^th grade, not health classes but ALL day! Good thing one is a cultural celebration and the other day is character appreciation day.

We have a pet tarantula that lives in the bathroom above the shower where the wall and ceiling meet. He/she never comes down much or out at all which is great. Except that my room is on the other side of that divide!  Also on the subject of creatures remember to always bring a flashlight with you to the bathroom in the middle of the night; you never know what will be there-RAT!! No more scorpions to report of.

New volunteers/missionaries will be here in one month!!! WELCOME TO THE FARM NEWBIES!!! We will have a weeklong retreat in two weeks to prepare for our new community, so please pray for us all.

Love you and miss you all!

24 Things I am (was)Grateful for on My 24th Golden Birthday!

1.       My Family and Friends and those in between

2.       “Strict” Parents

3.       The strong presence Kelsey still has in my Family

4.       My College experience at St. Scholastica

5.       Farm of the Child; Finca del Nino

6.       Trujillo, Colon, Honduras, Central America

7.       All the People I have ever shared some type of living quarters with

8.       My Camp Girls!

9.       My Travel Buddy-MK

10.   Being part of people’s life: Randi’s wedding

11.   Avocados, Mangos, Baleadas, Liquados, Tostados

12.   Berries, all types, milk, red peppers, Ranch Dressing!!!

13.   Funny stories about our Kids

14.   The idiosyncrasies of Honduras that make us say, “That’s Hondu for you!”

15.   Swimming in the Ocean is like taking a bath ANY time of the year

16.   My Special Friends, and my Dorfa, who calls me her preferida (her preferred!)

17.   Teachers! After teaching a couple classes I love what they do and am glad it is not me every day!

18.   My fun experiences as a “nurse” including machetes, babies, and worms.

19.   Modern conveniences: fan, aloof, electric heater (for tea), cold drinks on a hot day.

20.   Cake mix , mixed with water for a snack

21.   Rainy day conversations and candle lit dinners with the whole community.

22.   Inside jokes, “Fatima died Amanda!”

23.   The opportunity to live and serve in another country with so many amazing people!

24.   That every day I can see hear and feel the greatness of God and his creation!

Days of June

1: Emily, the student nurse, arrived in La Ceiba. Luckily her bus was late because mine broke down on the side of the road somewhere between Trujillo and Tocoa.

2: Took Emily for an adventure in La Ceiba buying the kids medications at several different pharmacies.

5: Brigades started. SChool was canceled and 10 Finca vols headed to the Cristofer Columbus Hotel to start the week off.

6: I headed to the hospital to translate and meet some really cool people.

7: Today the OR and the front desk fought over me for their translator.

8: Spent my thrird day with Dr. Cashman, ENT, and think I have it down pretty well.

9: MK and I discovered the towering Strawberry smoothies at the hotel!

10: Assisted with a Perferated Tympanic Membrane repair (whole in the ear), first ever Dr. Cashman had done WITHOUT anethsia in a clinic room vs. The OR, pretty sweet!

12: Alisha and MK lead Family day activity and we did a mini Camino de Santiago, a very popular and well know walk-hick across Spain. I want to do the really one now, it i son my list!

13: Ismary, our director, had bread made a blessed for all the houses on the Finca. Today is the feast day of San Antonio, part of his misión was to bake bread and feed the poor.

14: Today a gorobo, or lizard fell from the ceiling in the clinic. Yes that is right. In fact it even climbed back up, so Emily and I took empty med bottles and threw them up at him to get him to leave!

17: Sheena and Emily and I ran errands all over Trujillo for hours fort he Quinceañera of the Finca. At one point Emily was in the back of truck sitting on a giant pot of cooked beans singin in the rain!

18: Quinceañera of the Finca

20: 18yo went into labor. Nils, Emily and I took them to the hospital. She ended up need to have her second C-section but we were unable to stay and see how it all turned out.

21: Hicked up to Buena Visita to visit the 5yo boy who had a hip reduction during the brigades and was now in a full body cast. He is doing GREAT given the conditions his family lives in! Dr. Chris and orthopedic nurse Katie, from a construction brigada at the Finca, join us and had a wonderful time too!

23: Emily and Nils and I were able to visit the baby and mom in the hospital who were going home the same day. She didn´t have a name for the 5lb-er yet but she was super cute!

25: Hung out with house 6 the oldest girls and gave them all a manicure.

27: First time I check my email in over 2 weeks 97 emails!

28: Did a home visit to check on mom and baby at home!

29: Went to La Ceiba to drop off Emily, Dalila, one of our adolecents, told me my scrubs were super ugly and she would not want to be seen with me!

30: To end the month off, Betsy, Amanda, Alisha and I all went to Cayos Cuchinos for a day of snorkling, SUPER fun!

Let Me Paint You a Picture:

Today, not your typical day:
I was met with an emergency this afternoon. An older woman and her young daughtre had been attacked but were refusing me to care for them. Their nieghbor, a sixty some year old, approached them on the road in their neighborhood and had wanted to take advantage of this womens 11 year old daughter. When the daughter refused he grabbed for he arm and fractured it. The mother tried to get her daughter away when the man attacked her as well and cut her pretty bad.

They came to the Finca to get a ride into Trujillo to go to the police, she needed to save the evidence of their injuries for the police be fore heading to the hospital. Once we had the papers we need from the police we had to go the Fiscalia, not sure what that translates to in English, to legally file the papers so they could go after the man. All the road though around the Fiscalia were blocked off with more police then I have ever seen in CA all put together! Tami and I dropped them off and drove to park. When we returned the woman and her daughters said they, the Fiscalia, were dealing with dead bodies so they would have to wait! Apparently they had been a fight where all the police were and now two dead bodies were placed in large plastic bags sitting in the back of a green pick up bed right outside the Fiscalia where Tami and I had just walked past and would walk past again to leave!

I did not eat dinner.

It is one thing to know these things exist and occur and happen, it does in the states too, but another to be so close to it and know those affected by it and to in a sense become part of their story. I am thanking God tonight for my safety and the safety of all my family!

VAYCAY!

Vacation to the states was wonderful! Traveled to Alexandria, MN for my beloved cousin Randi’s wedding! I was able to help decorate, put together flowers and be there for all the unfolding of this spectacular day. I met some pretty cool guys and gals there as well.  I was very happy I could be there to help her and make her day super special!

I spent some time with Jesse before he left for his 2 week training and drove him to Mankato to drop him off. My college roomie, Anna, visited all the way from Nashville, TN, and it was such a treat to see her!  I headed to Duluth, MN to visit some old roommates, some mentors, hang out in Campus Ministry, eat at Fitger’s Brewery, and walked down by Canal Park. Drove down to good old So. Dak. To visit my very dear friend Krista who was graduating from Augustana College. I finally met all of her friends she always talks about and also visited an old friend Nathaniel!

And the last weekend I got to see lots of family. My sister and nieces spent the night. The first slumber party I have ever had with my sister, yes the first ever! It was wonderful, things like that need to be done more often in life. The camp girls and I did our traditional dinner at Buca’s in the kitchen. It was so wonderful to see them all again, Jamers, Fitz, Shawny, and Colleeny!!

I am happy to be back though I have to say. In a lot of ways it feels right; it feels like a routine, like going back to school in the fall. This is my life, not just something I am doing for two years. This is where I belong, at least at this point in my life.

Thank you to all those who I saw over my vacations, all those who donated items or money or prayers! Especially: ISD 196 District Offices, Robin and Jody, and the Knights of Columbus in Rosemount!

Much Love from Honduras,

Deirdre

Pascua!

Holy Week!

I really have loved all religious holidays here. They are celebrated so differently, I feel, the way they should be or how it was intended to be celebrate. I mean I have experienced 23 some Easter celebrations but never have I felt as I did till this Easter Season. I have never felt so close to Jesus in his experience and his suffering and his love.

We started on Palm Sunday where we started at one church and processed to another joyfully dancing! Everyone had their palms waving in the air singing along to the band as we followed the Jesus statue as four man carried him on their shoulders and danced him in and out of the crowd. I really felt like I was welcoming home Jesus to Jerusalem!

Thursday we had mass and imitated the last supper as the priest washed the 12 disciples (8 kids, 2 vols, and 2 house parents) feet and then we processed with Jesus (consecrated) the jardin de paz or peace garden where the entire finca took turns waiting up with Jesus to pray before he was handed over. I had singed up for the last hour of the night. And as I was praying with a few other vols the oldest boys from house 5 came in and prayed with us for another hour, I later found out it was something they had all wanted to do and asked the house parents if they could! Wow!

Friday we went into Trujillo and did the 12 Stations of the Cross. And by that I mean we DID the 12 stations. It was like a play but everyone was involved, Jesus, the two thieves, the soldiers who beat him as we went with their whips dipped in red koolaid. But it was ever so real when Jesus was nailed to the cross, they did not actually nail him, he held on to the nails with his hands. That night it was very solemn in the Finca and in the Vol house.  We also did what is called the 7 Palabras, or the 7 last words-phrases Jesus says where we reflect on those last phrases Jesus says. After words one of the kids, Jose Daniel, was dressed as Jesus as he is taken down form the cross and prepared for burial.

Saturday night mass starts outside in the street as the blessing of the light is done with a bonfire! Then we enter the Easter Vigil Mass without any light. Then once everyone is in candles are lit in the front and light spreads through to the back in seconds and the church is light more so with the spirit of everyone waiting to welcome Jesus and sing Alleluia as Christ is risen.

Sunday was mass in the morning followed by an Easter egg hunt White House style. Unfortunately I missed most of that. There was the mother of one of our children who was severely sick so I took her to the Hospital until her son came. That is a whole another story about families and cultural norms in Honduras!

Overall I really enjoyed Pascua here on the Finca and am excited to be here next year!

Abril 2011

April started out not only as Fool´s day but also our 6 month anniversary! A Volunteers 6 months signifies many great things such as: you can now take vacation in the states, you can buy a cell phone, etc. I spent the day getting my residency card; so now I can purchase land, receive major discounts on almost all big purchases, along with the privileges of living in beautiful Honduras. Seriously who ever thought I would be living in another country long enough to need legal residency, let alone Honduras? Not me that is for sure!

This month was filled with things from the past. One community night we all picked out our favorite childhood story from the library and read it aloud to someone, in Spanish, which really put a different twist on things. I chose Para Siempre Querré or I will love you for Always in English. It was really a beautiful activity actually. It made most of us think about growing up and our parents and made me then reflect on the kids here and how many of them don{t even have one person who can share memories of their childhood or say, I remember when you did this… nor can they see how much they have grown. They have no consistence and no one they can say has loved them all through their life and share their triumphs and struggles, no one to say “I will love you forever and always!”

I had a visit from the former nurse, Beth, and Dr. Johnson and a med student who were all in Honduras for a brigade several hours away. The came for a clinic day and focused on our chronic patients with asthma, diabetes, and HTN. I learned a lot from Dr. Johnson and really enjoyed having Beth visit. While she was here we ended up getting a kid who had cut his leg with a machete just under his knee that I was able to do stitches on! If only every patient was as wonderful as he was.

Some challenging moments this month:              I learned some more parenting skills aka teenage girls can be real beast sometimes and not care at all! Mom, sorry for when I acted the same! Struggled a lot with my faith and what my purpose is here at the Farm.

Some triumphant moments this month:             Eat orange chocolate sitting on Mary Kate’s bed to celebrate her accomplishing some very important self goals. We had an awesome holy hour led by Sheena using a centering prayer around a frijole or bean, which is very appropriate for us here at the Farm. Our second retreat since the Finca was very productive and we grew closer as a community as we reflected one our thoughts of the Farm before coming and now since arriving what has changed good and bad.

Before I left all the kids asked me to bring back either food or the older boys all asked for a car, yeah right guys! Maybe I will bring back a Hot Wheel{s car!

¡Feliz dia de San Patricio!

Happy Belated St. Patrick’s Day! I hope you all had a great time celebrating, here we wore green and put food coloring in the bread and that was about it for celebration. Though this coming weekend Betsy, another volunteer and myself are supposed to be Irish dancing for the party and Tbay, the resort down the beach. We will see if that actually happens.

The family has come and gone already, it is hard to believe. I really enjoyed having them here though it got to be tricky when the dentist arrived: I was working and on vacation at the same time….how did that work out?!? They work super hard the whole week, the clinic looked brand new and I don’t think the taller, maintenance, has had that much attention in I don’t know how long! And Jesse managed to learn how to wind surf and helped me in study hour with House 6 girls.

The Dentist and his wife worked very hard also, and came from Alexandria MN, small world, and his wife possibly taught Catechism with my aunt! This was their sixth year coming so they have a great system. We were able to get through all the Finca kids as well as some of the neighbors. I was able  to sit in on almost all the cleaning and some of the hard cases and saw some teeth removed and some drilling being done which was actually really cool!

This past week I covered house 5 boys (ages 12-16) for a two hour stint. It is amazing to me how day to day they can be real brats sometimes but one on one super nice, we could actually carry a conversation! House 6 is always good for a chat around the fagon before dinner while cooking. House 4 loves the beach, but then again who doesn’t? House three, the youngest boys, and I still only talk about their granos and other injuries they have acquired. I was substitute teacher for agriculture and house 2 girls were the well behaved ones telling their other classmates to be quiet and behave for profa Deirdre. House 1 is learning about numbers and addition through drawing pictures, so for study hour we have become really good at drawing birds in a tree!

I have 5 weeks until my first vacation home, but who’s really counting? I am super excited to see everyone and be home for some family affairs like Randi’s wedding, Dad’s birthday, Mother’s day, and more!

Thank you to those who were able to attend the Knights of Colombus Turkey Bingo! Thank you to all who are supporting me here financially and or spiritually, it is grately appreciated! Much Love…Deirdre

¡Feliz Año Escolar Nuevo!

The new school has just started which makes everything around here much quieter. Teachers are happy to finally have a purpose in their Finca life. Smaller jobs have also started, for example I have study hour with houses 6 and 1 three days a week, I am review applications for next year’s volunteers, and will be starting PAVI work hours soon. The kids are split, some and supper excited to be back in school and others really struggle with the structure of the classroom and tareja or homework.

Things in the clinic have been going well. In fact tomorrow two 4^th year med students from Indiana will be coming to observe and help out. They stopped by on Sunday to drop off extra medications they had from their brigades and asked if they could come and help out when we had clinic hours, sa-weet! So I am super excited about that. I had only two patients on Monday so I hope they will have more to see what rural medicine is all about.

Though only having two patients was a nice. It gives me a chance to do other things like research in this past Monday’s case CLEAN! I had been smelling something funny for a while and thought maybe it was a mouse or rat from the poison I had been putting out, but the Decon is supposed to make it not smell. I had asked volunteers as they came in to see if it was just me and everyone seemed to think so.  I started cleaning the Dentist’s room since he will be coming in a month. Once I got to the second shelving unit and opened the back side there it was….the dead rat I had smelled, maggots and all. I have seen some pretty disgusting things in school and clinical and even here but in the following half hour it took all my strength to keep from vomiting, to clean it all out! SO gross!! But the great part is now it is clean and no more smell!

Stories about the kids: Maria my special friend, it is her birthday on Friday and all she wants is to go to a Posa, a watering hole basically, and have chocolate cake and ice cream! One of the older boys, David, his pills had been melting in his pill box, so my solution was to put them in there whole and have him cut them himself. This week when I checked in I asked him how it went and he smiled from ear to ear as he told me great! That was a huge surprise. I love seeing the kids doing things themselves or learning to take care of themselves. Joel, is my favorite at this, he is 10 and is always wanting to do it himself from cleaning his granos, infected bug bites, to sticking himself to check his sangre (blood) for anemia (Before you freak out about that, it is a pen like device in which you are unable to access the needle and I was with him instructing him the whole time, all the diabetic 8-16 years at camp did the same thing to themselves)!

Stories about Volunteers:  For our last community night we did speed affirmations, like speed dating except telling the other what you appreciate about them personally and about what they bring to the community. This was really rewarding. It was interesting to see what other people thought of me and to see what it was that I had noticed in others. It was a good reminded to continue to point those things out to others because it really does make a difference when someone says thank you for being you! Magdalena, one of our special needs child, needs to have some testing done to determine what she has and what form of treatment then we can move forward with. Her tests consist of and EEG, CAT scan, and some blood tests which will all cost about $200 US dollars. The problem is the Farm does not have the money now to complete this test so we are stuck. If there is anyone who would be willing to pitch in something or know of anyone else who would please let me know!!!

Exciting things: My family is coming down in one month! I am super excited to have the come to the Farm and see where I live. They will be able to understand so much more what this place is like when I talk about the clinic or the kids or going here or there. I can’t wait for them to meet the kids, other vols, and house parents and tias (aunts). At the same time St. Joseph’s will be having a Saturday Event Bingo or Spaghetti dinner, I can’t remember, to help raise money for the Finca, PLEASE GO!! Lastly three months from now I will be on Minnesota ground, wa-hoo!

Hope everyone nis doing well. I am still receiving Christmas cards, thank you, which tells you how long it takes things to get here! I really appreciate you taking the time to send even a letter to say hello, it truly means a lot! Much Love and Prayers from Honduras...Deirdre

¡Feliz Navidad y Prespero Año!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! It has been a crazy and abnormal month. I had all of 17 patients in the Clinic the whole month of December, I had visitors from the states (Krista and Alyssa), and had vacation for the holidays!

In my time that I was not seeing patients I spent cleaning the clinic. All meds and the front room were stripped down, freed of rat messes and bleached! I now know where almost everything is. Surprisingly the clinic is very large in compassion to all other buildings on the Finca and in compassion to how many people use the clinic and what is actually stored there.

As far as interesting cases I have a couple. One of the pregnant women who has been coming for check ups finally had her baby. We were unsure of her due date, the doctor had told her anytime in November. We brought her to the hospital Saturday night around 9pm and saw her the next morning walking around Trujillo when we arrived for mass at 8am! These women are fearless!

A  young man came in asking for an antibiotic be cause sometimes he reacts to spider bites. I was not going to give him meds just for saying that, then he said "well look like this" and showed me this sweeled bump on his neck the size of a golf ball. After removing the moton de pus or mountain or pus I could see the large bite marks and how the infection had created a tunnel down into his shoulder! So I cleaned it really well and did give him the antibiotics.

Christmas here is very simple and very beatuiful, how Christmas should be. The holiday was celebrated by decorating the houses with Christmas trees. Here that means paint large twigs from the forest white and decorating it with lights and ornaments. Under each tree is a nativity completed with whatever we have, not the Willow Tree matching set. Some nativity scenes had dinosaurs, lego men, sea shells, plastic and wooden animals, you name it we probably had. 

Posadas occured the 9 nights leading up to Christmas day. Posadas are the representation of Mary and Joseph passing Inn to Inn looking for a place to stay; this is a very common Latin America tradition-celebration. On the Finca one of the girls dresses as Mary and one of the boys dresses as Joseph and lead the rest of us to the first house. There we all sing asking to be let in, those inside the hoiuse sing back and reject Mary and Joseph. This happens at the second house as well an on the third try they are let in. The third house is then hosts everyone providing a small mirienda or snack and tema or talk for that night. There is something beautiful about the Posadas and it is hard to explain without experiencing it for yourself.

Christmas Eve everyone on the Finca is cooking, and I mean EVERYONE! We had our last posada which lead us to the chapel for a obra or skit-play by the younger kids. Chirstmas Eve Mass  was then held and the great Feast began. We had Tomales, chicken, salad, carrot cake bread, rice, veggies, fresco or pop (I am the only one who calls it pop here, everyone so kindly reminds me it is soda or soda pop....right!). We danced the night way like every big celebration here. You can bet money that they will always play Justin Beeber  and "Stand By Me". During the dance Amanda, Alyssa, and I acted on Santa{s behave and helped put the appropirate gifts in the correct houses during the dance. Just before midnight we all walked out to the Campo or soccer feild and prayed and sang one last song before it was Christmas morning. Once 12am hit we hugged and wished everyone a Feliz Navidad.

Christmas day everyone had an hour to chat witht heir families. I was able to hear my the beautiful voices of some one my cousins and my aunt and uncle as well as my mom and dad and Jesse. It was sooooo wonderful to hear them all! It had not felt like Christmas till I talked with my parents and Jesse and could picture them sitting around the kitchen table in their PJs eating monckey bread and hearing about which gift this Christmas Dad was going to return. Ther is no snow here it is so warm it feels like summer all the time! After my 60 minutes of Minnesota Christmas talk all  the vols relaxed together by going down to compamento a resort about a 10 minute walk on the beach, drank some pop, cervesas, or voka and spirte (Amanda), while we sat around the pool. It was so beautiful. I am excited to be here for one more Christmas though, it will never be like this in the states. 

The new year was bright in much quieter. Many of the older volunteers are on vacation and so there has only been about 8 of us here at a time. We all miss our community in many different ways for many different reasons.

Some funny stories: Cesar, 12 years old house 5 boy told me he was having pain in his eye. I asked if he wanted eye drops and he said no, it was probably from winking at the girls all the time! Sigri 19 year old house 6 girl with cognitive impairment asked when my friends were coming back so she could play with them and not me! House 1 girls cannot say my name so they say Di-di-ly, and so some of the vols have started that. But it was even weirder to hear Krista and Alyssa to call me

D-Day and nick name Phil started in Guatemala that really stuck I don{t even know how it started!

A learning moment: Juan Carlos 14 year old house 5 boy apologized after a long drawn out confrontation with me. It started with him putting another kid on his shoulders and riding the bike. I told him to put the bike back for the day he threw it at me and said some choice words, and the disrespect continued for two more days. I walked away crying and thought why did I ever think I could be a parent. I then was also very thankful for my parents patience through my teenage years and beyond as well as sorry for everytime I was disrepectful. He came over to the vol house right before dinner and just stood by me till I asked if her was ready to talk. His simple apology said "just want to say sorry it will not happen again cheque"!

This next month brings: JAMIE, another good friend from camp and nurse! Physical exams for the kids, they hate doctors, glad I am not one! And the return of the whole community! Sorry this was a long one, thank you to all who still read this I really do appreciate the time you take to stay connect in what little ways I can! Much love and prayers!!!! Deirdre