pre-haircut: my punk rock baby
post-haircut: much more boring, but needed!
locals packing the streets for Independence Day parade
runners carrying the torch
It's been a little slow here the past few weeks so not much news to share. We did check out some parades for Guatemalan Independence Day last weekend. Mostly highschool bands playing and flags flying. The Guatemalans were out in full force! There were several groups of runners carrying a torch around town, kind of like the Olympic torch runners on a smaller scale. Needsless to say, many firecrackers during the day and night. It's amazing how our kids are used to that now and can sleep through the loudest fireworks, yet wake up at the creak of a door!
I'm excited to have outings this week: tomorrow I go back to PGN to find out where our case is and try to shed a tear or two in front of them, Thursday Emily and I go to Chichicastenengo to go back to the big outdoor market and to check out this mission/orphanage, and best of all Pat comes on Friday!!
The Embrey family, comes on Sunday for their pick-up trip for Cindy, who just turned 11. They are also adopting her sister Caterin, 8, and hope to plea their case while here to get Caterin home as soon as possible. PGN seems to be softening a bit and will hopefully see the need for the girls to be together.
Emily has been here 6 months and I've been here just shy of 8 months. We are so ready to come home to be with family and friends. I was listening to an old Chris Tomlin song yesterday with the lyric "time is in His hands." It's hard to be away, but our families have been blessed to have this time with the boys. We will look back on this journey and realize what a short time it really was.
