Awhile back I had a lady come to the gate selling coffee. I had never tried Haitian coffee before but I had heard it could put hair on your chest. I decided to go ahead and buy it. Not because I wanted to start sprouting extra body hair, but because I was curious how it really was and because the lady was nice and I wanted to help her. I brewed the coffee, and as soon as I saw it in the pot I knew it wasn't gonna work for me. I poured it into my cup and it was like mud. I drank a few swallows, dumped the rest of the sludge down the drain, and gave the remaining ground coffee to my house ladies. A couple weeks after that, the same lady came by the gate again asking if I wanted more coffee. I had told her I would try it but didn't know if I liked it, so I informed her that no, I'm sorry, but I did not enjoy the coffee. This time she also had a basket of pineapples and a few eggs. I already had a couple pineapples sitting on my counter but said I could buy the eggs. She gave me an outrageous price and I counteroffered with what I thought was a fair price based on what I pay for a dozen eggs in the store. She was appalled and said "Oh, no. These are more expensive because they're country eggs!" Well, they were piddly little things and I wasn't in the mood to pay out the wazoo for a few eggs. It's a known fact that I'm a pushover at the gate, but I do have my limits. So I started walking away and she quickly agreed to the price I had given her. I took them inside and our cook, who was working that day, said with much enthusiasm "Oh! You bought country eggs!!" So then I felt bad because I probably did rip off the nice lady. She hasn't been back yet! She probably thinks I'm a stingy blan.
We took a little family walk last weekend, mostly just around the hospital campus. There is an area on campus with housing for families of hospital patients and we saw one lady making juice. The kids awkwardly stopped and stared but she loved showing them what she was doing!
A couple Sundays ago in church, this little guy decided to join us for services. Cute as he is, he was quite the little rambunctious fellow. We let him play some, but he really added to the chaos of an already chaotic church pew. Nobody claimed him for a long time and he didn't seem to know where his mom was. Finally when he started digging through my bag and pulling things out, a girl from across the aisle came and got him. I don't think she was his mom though. He showed up again last Sunday and we were pretty quick to just hand him off the the assistant pastor who was sitting by us at the time!
Tucker decided he wanted to wear this shirt caveman style. No matter how many times we fixed it, he kept pulling his arm back out. Sometimes changing clothes gets pushed to the bottom of the priority list and this was one of those times. So for about three days (don't judge me) we had a little caveman walking around.
Danny ordered some window blinds for work and they came last week. Sawyer was trying to figure out what blinds were and after Danny explained them to him, he decided he wanted blinds for his birthday. And he also wants a rocket.
It's been fun watching Sawyer hone in on some of his skills lately. His brain is really good for puzzles and patterns and such. Someone gave us this toy and he is able to follow a picture pattern all by himself. Summer has no desire to do such things and struggles more with puzzles. But she could do crafts and write stories all the live long day. Sawyer? Give him some crayons and he'll be bored in less than five minutes. I love seeing their unique gifts and personalities!
He's just so stinkin' sweet!
Herrmann's are here!!!!!!! God has made it clear to them that they should officially leave Haiti and return to their home in the states. They are here for just 10 days or so to pack up their house and say their goodbyes. It's a bittersweet time to be together. We love having them here so much, but them going home earlier than they had ever planned on is pretty tough. They will take any prayers you are willing to offer on their behalf! And while they are here, we are soaking it up.
And those country eggs? They were alright. Small eggs made up of mostly yolk and not much white but they tasted fine:)
Love you all!
"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" Philippians 1:6
