New Little Family

We have been blessed, since my last post, with a darling little girl! She was born the morning of September 16th.  We named her Bityah which means "daughter of YAHWEH" in Hebrew.  The last week has gone by so quickly!  We have been busy learning to be parents to this lovely little girl.  There have been challenges, but we have been blessed to have my mom be with us since Tuesday, the 17th.  Her knowledge and wisdom has been more help than we could have hoped for.  

Now, a week and a few days later, Bityah has had her first vaccinations, I am finally feeling more normal again, and we are getting ready for the arrival of my sister and dad.  We are also heading into the embassy tomorrow to get Bityah's paperwork all completed to make her a US Citizen and get her a passport.  Please be praying that this process goes better than expected as we have plans to travel to the states on October 23rd for my sister's wedding--we know that God can make that happen.  He is faithful and He has brought us this far!

Thank you for all your continued prayers!  I will continue to post as I can in the coming days and weeks.  

Four Words I Love to Hear

It's been a long 20 hours.  I went to bed exhausted last night and not in the best of moods.  I woke up several times during the night sweaty and needing to drink water.  I woke up this morning with a really bad headache. I stayed in bed until 11.  Sleeping and sweating most of the time.  Our batteries in our fans had died during the night.  I finally got up and showered.  Decided to have grilled cheese and chicken soup for lunch as my hubby had fish with rice and beans--he did offer to pick me up something else, but I didn't want anything else.  After lunch, I wrote and prayed.  Then I cleaned the floors, watched the kittens play, did dishes, cleaned the rest of the kitchen and decided to hop online--glad I charged the computer yesterday because in the last 20 hours, we didn't have power.

This time, the four words I love to hear were, "Honey, there is power."  Almando yelled them up the stairs and I joyfully yelled back, "YAY!"  It's funny that such a thing, many take for granted, I rejoice over when we are given this gift of electricity.  It's been dark here for about an hour and our batteries that can power the lights in our house were almost out of juice and we were about to have to start the generator.  A blessing of power came to us tonight.  A blessing.

Typically, we get power every day, but I have never seen it stay on for a full 24 hours.  We have had it for up to 20 hours at a time and for as little as 20 seconds.  It comes and goes--it seems--as it pleases.  It is one thing that the government here wants to have fixed, but it's on a long list, so we have to be patient in the process.  Sometimes, this is really frustrating--like when you want light or have to charge your computer or would like to use your freezer to stock up and keep food for long periods of time--but we learn how to make do and make it work.  Most of the time, we can even keep ice.  :)

One thing I have learned from this is to never take anything for granted.  You really appreciate something when you know it won't last forever.  I really appreciate when I can charge my computer, watch a movie, or have ice water.  I really appreciate when I don't have to use batteries to have a fan on a hot night.  I really love to hear--or say--those four words, "Honey, there is power."