Our Trip to Sarah's Covenant Homes in India

If you haven't been following along on our trip, begin reading HERE: And We're Off!
When you get to the bottom of that post, you'll see the words Newer Post. Click on that to go to the next post in the series.
If you'd actually like to follow along from the very first minute I decided to go, begin reading here: Guess Who's Going to India!!!? You'll have to read some posts about my family interspersed with thoughts about the trip, but hey, my kids are cute!
To find out more about where we went, click on the button for Sarah's Covenant Homes to the right in my sidebar. I promise, you'll be blessed!

Monday, February 8, 2010

And the Winners Are...

(in our Super Bowl pool, that is)

First Quarter Pepper $2
Second Quarter Rose Bud $2
Third Quarter Rose Bud $2
Fourth Quarter Pepper $2
Tally of winning digits, Final Score Daisy $5

Now, before you turn us over to the Federal Bureau of Child Gambling, no one put anything into the pool except for Mr. GT. He donated all the winnings.

We also had nachos, homemade hummus, BBQ'd smokies, ice cream punch and something else, plus leftover cream puffs.

Oh, and somebody won the game.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Email Link below

Don't know my own email, so if you DID try to email, it is fixed in the post below.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, then never mind! LOL

Thursday, February 4, 2010

If You Have Been Wondering if You Could Help a Haitian Child

Read this excellent post from Christine. She always says things with such intelligence and grace. And she knows of what she speaks. She has two seriously RAD kids from Haiti and is an AWESOME awesome MOM.

Still Here

Working on adjusting back into my regular life. I thought about India for 6 solid months, plotting, planning, praying and it's relaxing just to do ordinary things again.

The kids are out cross-country skiing. Over the years I've bought a few pair of skis at garage sales and this year all the shoes happen to fit Daisy, Pepper and Banana Boy. With 8 acres to cruise on, they are happy as clams (as happy as clams can be in the snow) finding new hills to race down. I was always a speed demon myself.

Rose Bud is all settled in back at school. She went back the next day! Oh to be young and not suffer from jet lag! She had a forensics meet last weekend and got a 27 out of 30! Also all A's on her report card.

Work is work and I am back in my game. The first couple of days were a little foggy, what with the jet lag and working in the evening. I'm sure I must have brought chicken to someone who ordered beef, or something. I don't think I was all there.

I'm still thinking about Sarah's all the time. I'm debating whether it's a good use of resources to go back. I promised to take Daisy, and Rose Bud wants to go again. She is even thinking through what things we'd do differently next time and what activities we could add to our class to make it better!

If there is anyone who seriously thinks they would like to go, please email me. (sandwichinwi at gmail dot com or my other email, if you know it) I know there are some of you out there who love India as much as I do and would jump at a chance to go. If you need more time to get things together, here is your chance. I'm thinking a spring 2011 trip, although that's tentative. Jan. 2011 is also a possibility. The money is the iffy part, as if I take both girls, I'd need to save up $6000. It would likely come in WAY under that. This trip was under $1500 with airfare. But we had a pretty good deal on airfare! If you'd like to go, I'd plan on $2000 per person.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Thank you!

To
Hillary & Jason
Mike & Jen
Terri & John

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Tiny Pinkness

Remember This?


Here you have it in action! It fit Cassia PERFECTLY and her ayah was thrilled to have something special for "her" baby!

La la la la la--A slideshow of our trip

not made by me, but by Leslie.  Thanks, Leslie, for all your hard work in setting up the trip, being our fearless leader (and all the unpleasantness that entails for the hard decisions you have to make), and for putting together this awesome slideshow.  LOVE David Crowder Band!