Yesterday at 2 o'clock in the morning I arrived home and collapsed on the couch with my mom and brothers and sisters in front of the Christmas tree, telling stories and laughing together again. The past 7 1/2 weeks seemed far away, but the faces of the girls covered in smiles and in tears will be in my heart forever.
The past few weeks were kind of crazy with the new couple arriving and 3 of the board members to help with the transition. School went on as usual for the most part, with the exception of a few days off including a trip to Tegucigalpa. We loaded all 20 of the girls into the bus and headed to the city and to the mall! This was the annual trip to see the Christmas tree, which this year was covered with almost-life-size Santa Clauses! We walked around looking in the shops and went up and down the escalators-- it was fun watching the girls, some of them for the first time, on the escalators! They hesitated at first, but loved the ride once they got on. I didn't hear one of them asking for anything (except lunch!) they just looked and looked. ...
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So much has happened since I wrote last, I don't know where exactly to begin. God is so good and He is everything we need, especially in the day-to-day routines when sometimes we need Him the most. But I'm glad He's also there when the schedule gets broken up a little bit!
Last week, I was just getting into the hang of having the school run smoothly and getting the materials together for the girls BEFORE their classes began for the afternoon (they have Spanish classes in the mornings that have nothing to do with me!) and our water pump broke. So mid-week, Angela -- a graduate of the Project, who took a semester off from college to come back to the farm to help out -- and I left at 6 o'clock in the morning to catch the bus to Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, to try and find a couple of parts for the pump that we can't get around here. The ride was 4 hours through gorgeous countryside, over the mountains! I tried to concentrate on the beautiful scenery and not the sharp curves, fallen boulders, or the vehicle we passed upsidedown in the ditch. We drove past the cement houses, past children...
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