Praise God Regina is so much better this morning. Fever was down throughout the night and though we had to take her back to the clinic for two more IV treatments, she seems great tonight, Malaria-wise anyway. She has had two big ear issues today that indicate her infection is not better. There is a specialist in town and we are hoping to get her there on Friday.
6:30am was the first noises I heard today as the children began singing again first thing. Its hard to complain about being awakened early when that is the alarm and the sound that began my day. By 7:30 am they were off doing their chores and since I had volunteered to make breakfast for the 23 of us, I got to work. Eggs in a basket. It was tough when the bread was still in the freezer and John had to go down the road to purchase the eggs, but we had enough to eat and I wouldn't know really if they liked it or not. They are too polite to say otherwise, at least in a language I would understand. We did a little video taping for sponsors and off we went with Regina.
I snuck off to town, leaving Olivia with Regina in order to get a few minutes of internet time and post the blog entries that verify I survived 48 hours as house grandmother. I took one of the older girls with me and watched her face as she got a taste of her first milkshake at the "American" coffee house. We looked around just a bit and talked about how different people had made things that could be sold. Checked the quality of some sewn items, smelled soaps and saw wood carvings.
We were supposed to have an appointment with an attorney today via Solomon, but it sounds like may be tomorrow. It is such an answer to prayer though that Pastor Roman was here at the house when we got back this afternoon. He has decided that every Wednesday he will come and meet with them about "man things", bible study and some mentoring. Man, have we been praying about that. Five boys and 14 girls + 3 adult women and this small group is far outnumbered, I know they will love it. Pastor Roman is the head of Abundant Life churches in Central Uganda. He is so fun and energetic, loves children and has such a heart for God. It's a perfect fit really.
Janet returned home today about 3pm to smiles and hugs. She said she really enjoyed her time away and was able to spend some time with her grandmother in Kenya. Next time she said she would take more days if I am up to it.
Bubble baths again tonight, prayer, bible study and singing...dinner was about 8:30pm along with handing out prescription tablets to the ones that need them. I thought I'd go back to the hotel tonight, but decided to stay one more here at Chayah. The mosquitos left very little untouched territory, but tonight I'm going to use the net and the fan. We'll see how it goes. I'm out of Deet now, so this will definately be the last night in the house.
Tomorrow will be paperwork, budgeting, the attorney (hopefully) and maybe I can talk Janet into getting into the pool. I was hoping for one more swim day with the kids on Friday, so if she wants to participate, she's going to have to put on her "big girl" bathing suit tomorrow and see how it goes. For both our sakes she needs to survive. What on earth would I do with 19 children to care for? There isn't enough Bubble Bath or cookies to make it work nearly as well as she does. What a blessing to these children she is. Heading to sleep now, grateful she's back, safe and sound and I know I'm not the only one.
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