Well November sure went quick. Anyone else? Every time I blog I think how I'm not going to wait a whole month to do it again but here we are. Again. Anyway...
We've had this map on our wall since we moved here. It was put up by the Nussbaum's when they lived in this house. We've always had a pin in both of our families homes but decided to put a pin on for everyone that we've been here in Bonne Fin with for a significant amount of time. Some of the pins are hard to see but there are 11 of them in 8 different states spanning the country from west coast to east coast. Pretty cool!
We snapped a quick picture one day of all of our whole crew and will give them to our workers as part of their Christmas gift. You'd never know by looking that two of them have the biggest, widest smiles that they frequently share with us! Such a Haitian culture thing to not smile for pictures.
Summer found a lizard. It was dead. She had a string. She tied the string to the lizard. She carried it around for an entire afternoon. Whatever.
All buckled up with nowhere to go. I think the biggest culture shock for the boys when we move back will be having to wear shirts and shoes!
It's rare that kids from the community come in the yard to play but these boys are really polite and happened to catch me on a good day:)
He said to me "I'm Moses!" It's a wet wipe.
We decked our halls! Our tree stand consists of a popsicle box and some large books but it gets the job done.
We got a care package that included a little gingerbread village and the kids had a grand ole time decorating their houses. We also have a fun box from the Herrmann's that has a little gift for each day of December. They got their church ladies involved and it is so fun for us! Needless to say, with all these care packages, much sugar has been consumed as of late!
Because I realized this guy is rather underrepresented in this post...
We also had the chance to go to the big missionary Thanksgiving in Cayes this year. Last year we were still out of country after having Tanner and the year before we were out because of evacuation. So we were really excited to be able to go once before we move back. However, I didn't take any pictures. And we were left the party right as they were rounding everyone up to take the big group picture because we like to avoid driving in the dark down here. So there is no proof that we were there. But we were and we really enjoyed it!
Tomorrow we're planning to have another Thanksgiving feast with the box of food we got from Agape. Rick is in country right now as well as another Harvest Call Haiti guy. So we'll cook up our turkey and have us a party!
Psalm 118:1
"O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: Because his mercy endureth forever."
