Running the race....

Its a wonderful race, this life of ours. But that doesn't mean that it isn't a hard race sometimes:)

The last few weeks have been different in many ways. Then again, we've only been here not quite 5 months, so do we really know what "normal" is?

School is out and we have had some wonderfully fun hours of summer school. The children think it is great and I enjoy it too.

Then we got ready for my sister and brother in law's visit. We had SO MUCH FUN with them. We savored each day, and made lots of memories. Somehow, times stilled somewhat during that week. I feel like we did a lot of stuff, but I didn't feel busy or bustling.

Off to the beach!

The artist in our family, this Auntie knows how to get the girls' creativity flowing!

I still don't know if it was fortunate or unfortunate that the Agriculture conference that HRM hosted was this same week or not. It was nice in that I didn't have to cook. much. at. all. And Lorens got all the Haitian food they wanted. It also slowed life down here for the ladies in that we didn't do anything much except maintain , basically. This made it easy for me to take off for the beaches several times with Jean. Lovely!

It did mean Jess was very busy and we sometimes just got little glimses of him during a few of those days. He and the team did a wonderful job of coordinating everything, and I think every one of the 75+ people were blessed and encouraged to try new, innovative ways to grow food, crops for animals, prevent erosion, and conserve moisture during dry seasons.

Totally spellbound as Aunt Jean shares, and reads, Shaloms Story. She

gave each family one, written esp for children. The hospital procedures are explained,

and there are lots of beautiful pictures.

We love and miss you precious Girl.

Dance with the angels as you sit at the feet of Jesus.

I wasn't prepared for the sadness I felt after taking Jean & Loren back to the airport. It just made me a bit homesick... her going back to all my family. Maybe realizing just how far away we are.... how distance changes so much, but on the other hand, just how much we have as sisters, to even miss each other this much. We are more than sisters, we are FRIENDS. I'm thankful.