A day with my girls…
Yesterday we went to see Larissa and Dema. We had a wonderful visit and talked a lot about how they came to know the Lord as a family. (She was walking by a school several years ago and heard English being spoken…the rest is history. She brought her daughter, Masha, back to experience hearing English spoken and I met her. I was invited to stay at their place the next year. A year later Larissa was baptized, a year after that Dema was baptized. They are close brothers and sisters to me.) Larissa made some homemade muffins that were delicious and we drank some compote (which is boiled fruit that is made into a juice) I think that compote is very good, depending on which fruit they put in it, sometimes it is better than others. Dema took us home in his car. I call it the “green bug” because it is very little and it is bright green. He has reconstructed it from a two door to four door car himself. He is very creative and clever with a welder! I was tired and got into bed soon after coming home. I have my lap top so I watched a movie while I was in bed “A River Runs Through It”…was okay…but a little on the slow side!
Back to today….we stopped by Tonya’s, the former church cleaning lady, house but she was not home. She doesn’t hear very well so she doesn’t always answer the phone. When she was not answering her door, we went over to Rita’s mom’s house. Zoya is quite a character. By the way, so far the squirrel has NOT died. Of course she has it on her balcony in a box with a soft bed and food brought to it a couple of times a day!! She said that she really wants it to live, so she keeps feeding it and babying it! Go figure!
Well, Zoya provided lunch for us. We had boiled potatoes with dill, fried zuchinni with mayonaise, hand made pizza and cucumbers. Sharon, I have to tell you, and you KNOW how I feel about Mayonaise…I ate mayo on zuchinni and on pizza! I have never before eaten pizza with chicken, peppers, catsup and mayonaise! Perhaps I will never have to again! I just thought you would get a kick out of me eating ANYTHING with mayo on it!
After lunch, we walked to the orphanage and got to see the girls. They have remodeled their living space. Now instead of one large room with all of the girls in it, they have a smaller living area with three rooms for the girls to live in. They are no more than four girls to a room. They seem to like the privacy much better, and I know that it is more like a real home than the dorm room before.
They had a ball trying to make friendship bracelets, I am terrible at it, and they got a lot of laughs at my expense! Then they tried to make the plastic thread keychain type strings and they were much more successful. (can you tell I can’t remember what they are called??) (The teachers have them at school aroung their necks with keys and I.D. on them!)
I just remembered…lanyards…I am not sure how to spell that word…but any way they loved making them!
We then called Natasha, the former interpreter who has twin girls (1 yr olds) to see if we could come by and visit her. Today was not a good day so we set an appointment to see her later this week. We also set an appointment to see the Dawn girls tomorrow and buy them swim suits for their summer in the forest. They will have flip flops and swimsuits for “camp”. They are very excited about it all.
After all of that, we went to Rita’s place to eat dinner. She doesn’t really know how to use a crock pot, but she had cooked chicken in it (it was very good) and so we had some of that with cheese, bread, cucumbers, and lettuce. Tea and cookies were for dessert. A very nice end to the day. Then her son Artiom let me use his computer so that I could blog from here and not have to go to Daffi later! Thank you Tom!
Now it is time to catch a van home. Tomorrow will be a busy day. We are going to the Baby House in the morning and to the market with the Dawn girls in the afternoon. Afterwards we will have time for a class and some games with them!
So for now, I send my love and greetings to you all.
peace and love in Him,
Jackie
