What's a normal day?

I get asked this all the time by you lovely folks at home: what's a normal day for you? I attempt to explain that nothing here is normal ;-) Everyday I run around trying to find different people to get different things done, like the maintenance team to fix something (because boys tend to break things often and easily), or a nurse for a sick boy, or a missionary/visitor to help out with my boys and play with them. ...there's a lot of running. Well, no, it's not running. No one runs here, at least not when it's hot (which praise the Lord it's been in the 70s for a week!). But there is a lot of moving around for the staff here, and since everyone's busy with this running, it makes it quite hard to accomplish all of your to-do list... which means the next day will be filled with running yet again.. and thus: a cycle begins. But I love it :o) I can rest easy in knowing I don't know what to expect. So, what's a normal day for me? Every day. Because everyday is different so every day is normal.

God is my Provider. This is the side of the Lord He's been showing to me most, and it's been amazing. I'm learning to completely trust in Him to give me what I need, and not in my own doings. See, I'm broke. It could be possibly more descriptive to say: dirt broke. This isn't a knew state for me, I was oftentimes broke in the States too, haha. But at home I knew how to to get more money: babysit more. I'm seeing that that was a luxury, that knowledge of how to get more money. As of yesterday I had 140mets (something like 4 or 5 bucks) in my wallet and I've got $13 in my bank account. But the issue with this bank account money is that I don't know how much the fee will be to pull it out! I can't seem to figure out how much they're charging me over at Wachovia, sometimes its .50cents but sometimes it's $5.00!! So I'm too scared to touch it and overdraft into an astronomical debt. But! It's been fine. Because God is my provider :o) Amen. There is always enough. That's a motto here at the center, and it's completely true. Yesterday I had three lovely ladies over for dinner because I had more than enough food :o) I found this awesome market down the road from the center and ohMYgosh it is cheap! I bought vegetables for stir-fry for something like $2! I still have 50 mets in my wallet! God is so great :o) Also, I've been wanting a new mosquito net for my bedroom because my current one is blue.. my room is pink (obviously.). So I didn't neeeeeed a new net, no, I knew that. But I wanted one! So bad too! And yesterday a friend of mine got a new net for her room and graciously gave me her old one! It's a beautiful white :o) God's awesome.

In about three hours I will be doing my first afternoon program without Laura, or any help for that matter! Today it's the littlest ones, about 5 years old :o) I made a little craft puzzle for them, it was fun doing it hah. It's a puzzle of the alphabet where only two pieces fit together, the captial and small letter :o) It's cute. They'll also be doing a puzzle with their name. This is if everything goes well! We'll see... :o)

Tomorrow is voting day here, pray the country. I have a missionary in here with me now talking about how none of the tias may be around tomorrow... haha... and there's no school... So this means I may be left alone to give the boys showers, breakfast, lunch, dinner, showers and bedtime alone. hah. That's so ridiculous it's funny! God will help me out tomorrow :o)

I'm off to start my first afternoon program! I love you guys :o)