Hello to everyone. I hope everyone is fine. We are doing good. We will be doing great when we get to fly home. We are soooo homesick. Today was a good day here. A little rainy but good. We did go to the office where you go here to apply for the boys passports. I have to tell you that the boys were soooo good. We where so proud of them. They got their pics made again and we filled out some paperwork and we were off to the small grocery store a couple of blocks from our apartment. We spent over 250........Grivnas that is. Which is about $50 dollars. There is 5.30 Grivnas to one of our dollars here. But the cost on stuff usually is the same just about. Well we bought some water and Coke (thats right good ol' Coke). They have a huge CocaCola plant over here also. Nestle is also a very big company seller here. We bought some bologna, cheese, and eggs. Penny has been cooking our meals and she has done a great job considering you can't read the labels here and sometimes you just hope you bought what you think you were buying. We had fried bologna and left over homemade mac and cheese and corn. This afternoon for lunch we finally got to eat some good ol' scrambled eggs. They were the best. We miss home and also home cooking. If anyone wants to cook us a good ol' homecooked meal when we get home, let us know. We will be there early. LOL We had some pics to show you Sister Cathy with the idea you gave us on making the boys a tent in the apartment. But of course the blogger isn't letting us download any. Penny pulled the comforter over the end of the bed in the livingroom and the boys were able to go under it and they had a fort and went crazy. They loved it. And so did mama and papa cause it gave us a little time to do stuff also. Thanks soooo much for the idea. Keep them coming cause we still have a few days left. Lea, Penny said that the finger paint with chocolate pudding was an awesome idea, but when you can't read the labels here you don't know what your getting so......no go. LOL They have been coloring some but they are all boy and they have to romp around and coloring last for about 15 minutes top. I can't wait to get home and get settled in so all the little ones the boys will be with in church can come over and play with them. We are going tomorrow to get their medical exams and if the good Lord see fit we will go to get the passports Friday and also have our meeting at the US Embassy Friday. Then we will be done and ready to fly out of here at 6:30AM Saturday Morning Ukraine time which is 10:30PM Alabama time on Friday night. Weird huh. Please be in prayer for us that we get to make that flight on Saturday. I am soooo ready to get back home and back to work (I never thought I would say that) and back to FWC and Kingdom Outreach. I really do miss all the family at church and in the Outreach Ministries. I know Chris Gann and Chris Hayes has really been keeping it going and a BIG thanks to them. You just don't know what it means when you are gone this long and you know that we have such a wonderful church family. Everyone is sooooo special to us. I can't wait for all of you to meet our Luke and Micah and for them to meet their new awesome family as well. They just don't have a clue how great their lives will be at home. They get sooooooo excited over any little thing. Tonight Penny was having to dry their underwear with a hair dryer (I don't think there is a clothes dryer in this country at all) and the boys were taking part by holding them while Penny used the dryer. They were soooooo excited. They get very excited when Penny start to cook and yell out AWWWWWW SOOOOUP. They think everytime she pulls out a pot or pan she is cooking soup. Thats a lot of what they ate at the orphanage. Very little on the menu there. They love to say their prayers with mama and papa. We make them simple for them and we usually say at meals, Thank you Jesus for this food and we love You, AMEN. And at bedtime it is usually, We love You Jesus and thank you for this day, AMEN. Of course they love baths (Penny told you I think) and they love to brush their teeth also. They have even learned now to pick up the toilet seat so they won't go peepee on it. They are so wonderful and they have already pick-up so much from us since we got the last Friday. And I am gonna have a time with them when we get home cause they love to used the remote for the TV. They fight over it and usually I have to put it on top of the refrigerator. When we get home papa will have to hide it so he can use it and keep them away from it. LOL We made paper airplanes and paper footballs one day and they loved it. You should have seen them trying to make there on. It was hilarious. They are sooooo funny to watch in all they do. Their is also a new game they love to play. It is Lets-ask-mama-whose-hat-they-have. They have the same Snoopy hat we bought them (they have to have the same or they will fight over one or the other, they are just like twins) at the market and we have Luke's name in his and that is the only way we can tell the difference. Its really weird staying in this apartment because the subway here is under us and you can feel the rumbling and here the sounds, but I have to say they don't bother us cause they are not loud, its just cool to here them and know that it's under us. Well I guess I have told you all I can think of right now. I hope the blogger is back and ready for pics tomorrow. We didn't have many today but really did want you to see them. Please keep us in your prayers. Remember to be Christian is to be Christ-Like. Jesus was here in the flesh to show the family of God (The Church) how we were supposted to live and we have an obligation to do what he did. If Jesus came to serve us and do the Father's will, how much more do we owe Him ourselves to do His will. Eternity is forever and ever. Don't waste time here doing the worlds will and your own, but do his. We have treasure to store up in Heaven and the Father wants to bless us now so we can use it to bless others, not just ourselves. Pray for wisdom. Listen for the Lord to speak to you in the word and in prayer. He will and you will be blessed forever.
WE LOVE YOU ALL AND MISS YOU!!!!!!!!
James, Penny, Luke and Micah
3 comments:
Can you believe I have both Hope and Trey down for a nap at the same time! Wow, that's a miracle. While I really enjoy them when they're here, it's also nice to have a little time to catch my breath. Hope always wants to see your blog every day so I read the things that interest her. I think the boys will have a good time at church with the other kids there when you all get home. It will be a learning experience for all of them. This time you're spending with them alone is precious bonding time that they and you can hold onto for a lifetime. I know that you love them and love is the same in any language.
GOD BLESS AND KEEP YOU
MISS MARGIE
I guess you have just proved that male hormones in any language is the same and that no matter what the biology books say, there is an "I want the remote hormone" and all boys seem to have it. lol. I am glad you are enjoying the boys so much. It will be so much better when you get them home and they have more room to run around in.I am continuing to pray that you will be coming home on schedule. I know the closer it gets, the slower the time seems to go. But the time will continue to pass. I have got to go and get ready for the joint prayer service that is meeting tonight at convention hall. Several different churches are getting together there tonight for a time of prayer. It should be a great time and as long as the Lord is there it will be glorious. Wish all of you could be there too. Looking forward to seeing you soon. A big hello and lots of love to all of you.
You may have to keep this blogging thing going even after you get back home. It's becoming addictive. Haha. I had another thought. Something my kids loved playing - another inside game.
"I SPY" and it's so simple. You could play it a couple different ways but this would work. Pick a small object - Grandma used to use a thimble. You hide it somewhere in the room but not underneath anything - it has to be out in the open so you could "Spy" it from wherever. One person hides the Thing (thimble - or whatever) and the others hide their eyes. THen on cue they begin "spying" You can walk around to "Spy". When they spot it they say "I spy" without pointing so that the others can find it too and as they spot it they say "I spy" too. After they get the hang of it - - you might let them try hiding it - like the first one to spy can hide the thingie.
TO catch you up - tonight was a Prayer gathering - a unified effort from churches all over the area and it was wonderful. I really loved hearing several of the people share and pray. The folks there were pretty charged up - so it was a lot of fun. God is up to something good!!
Ah - and he is talking to me in my dreams again. Something is up. really up!! There is no God like our God!! THERE IS NO GOD LIKE OUR GOD!! He knows me inside out and still loves me - - - ain't that great!! Mom mentioned Hope. You know she's just 4. And I really believe that there is a gift in her already. SHe has prophetic dreams. It's mind blowing! But little kids don't know how to not listen to GOd - they just listen. Isn't that wonderful!!
I'm about to run out of steam so I'm turning in for the day.
LOVE YOU MUCH.
HEY - it's Wednesday night here - and Thursday morning there!!!
WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! We're almost there!!!!!!!!!!!! :O) :O)
happy dance! happy dance!!
kathy
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