October 26 & 27

Today was a very basic day.  Andre is back in town so he took the boys to school then went to work.  Bill and I were the only ones home.  It was very quite compared to the last few days.

We did get the van from Andre around noon so we could go have a meeting with Alek and then do some grocery shopping.

Today is Yasha's birthday so we made everyone an American dinner of chicken-a-la- king.  Alona andthe boys made the other dishes.  After dinner we had cake and ice cream.

 It was very fun watching the birthday customs here.  Instead of candles on a cake we all took turns lighting a match and giving Yasha a wish before the match burned out.  They did a game and if I got the translation right they took the letters of Yasha's name and created nice things to say about him.  We sang some songs, then the guests went home.

The kids do not get presents often and Alona was not sure of Sasha's reaction so we waited until everyone was gone before we gave ours to him.  It consisted of a towel, shower gel and gum.  He was very excited, especially about the towel and shower gel.

I do a lot of praying all day long to maintain patience.  Sometimes it is hard to have kids hanging on you, so I pray to remember that these kids need so much love, that the time we spend with them is so short and when we leave there is no one else.  I pray that other Americans will get a call from God to come and give love to these kids.

This blog is going to be for two days.  I was so tired last night that I finished writing this morning.  We had quite a busy day today. Bill took the kids to school, I made potato pancakes for the first time (thank you Mom Lois for the recipe).  Bill was in heaven. His mother made them for him as a child and they turned out pretty good.

We had dinner at Alek's house.  Yeah, yeah we had a wonderful home cooked meal with no potatoes.  We even had chicken.  We spent the rest of the evening talking business about Agape.  Alek has a lot of great ideas.

We did not have a lot of interaction with the boys today, but I guess there have to be business days too.

Tomorrow we go to an orphanage about one hour away.  We are picking up one of the teachers of that orphanage to take her home.  We will be on our own on the way back. Thank you, thank you to the inventor of GPS.

That's all for now.

God bless and hugs to all,

K & B