julie & punkin (ga)
Member Since 2011
Really i'm just opening this to have an excuse to say hi to everyone. didn't see a loose lips open so . . . punkin is doing fine. i emailed the DH and asked him to increase punkin's dose tonight. we're just running along trying to keep up with that tumor. good grief. he'll be up to 13.5 now.
i'm still in guatemala - 5 days down, 1 week left to go. kinda a long trip. we've finished our second day of construction on a school. there is a 2 room school in a village that pulls in 146 children - talk about overcrowded classrooms in the US!!!! this is kind of the epitome of that.
anyway, we're putting another wing on - 2 more classrooms. school is in session and the kids are all over us at every opportunity. the village threw a fiesta for us yesterday. it's about a 1.5 hr drive to get there from where we're staying, and when we arrived they were all there waiting for us. i swear! 150 school kids, plus all their siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents & everyone without children. We had speeches galore from everyone who could welcome us and all the school kids did presentations (dances and some singing) by grade. after the official stuff, i got handed about a dozen colorings done by the children. they were so sweet.
one of my girls brought embroidery floss to make friendship bracelets and we were promptly mobbed by kids with their wrists in front of our faces to get a bracelet. so we probably made a bracelet for everyone - even the mayor came and asked my girl to make him one.
so i'm busy but enjoying it. missing my kitter like crazy though - i know he's being taken care of and i should just enjoy the break, but, well you all know how that is.
tonight one of my twins is sick, so i stayed behind with her while the rest of the group went to a welcome party put on by the organizers of this program. i'm content staying with her, so it's fine. the woman in charge thought i should leave her alone - can you imagine? 14 years old, upset stomach, foreign country, no phone or anyone to ask for help if you got sicker . . . by yourself? plus her mom would've been so upset with me.
enough of that - back to your cats. i just wanted to say hi!
i'm still in guatemala - 5 days down, 1 week left to go. kinda a long trip. we've finished our second day of construction on a school. there is a 2 room school in a village that pulls in 146 children - talk about overcrowded classrooms in the US!!!! this is kind of the epitome of that.
anyway, we're putting another wing on - 2 more classrooms. school is in session and the kids are all over us at every opportunity. the village threw a fiesta for us yesterday. it's about a 1.5 hr drive to get there from where we're staying, and when we arrived they were all there waiting for us. i swear! 150 school kids, plus all their siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents & everyone without children. We had speeches galore from everyone who could welcome us and all the school kids did presentations (dances and some singing) by grade. after the official stuff, i got handed about a dozen colorings done by the children. they were so sweet.
one of my girls brought embroidery floss to make friendship bracelets and we were promptly mobbed by kids with their wrists in front of our faces to get a bracelet. so we probably made a bracelet for everyone - even the mayor came and asked my girl to make him one.
so i'm busy but enjoying it. missing my kitter like crazy though - i know he's being taken care of and i should just enjoy the break, but, well you all know how that is.
tonight one of my twins is sick, so i stayed behind with her while the rest of the group went to a welcome party put on by the organizers of this program. i'm content staying with her, so it's fine. the woman in charge thought i should leave her alone - can you imagine? 14 years old, upset stomach, foreign country, no phone or anyone to ask for help if you got sicker . . . by yourself? plus her mom would've been so upset with me.
enough of that - back to your cats. i just wanted to say hi!
