491-536. The 45 precious children whose birthday's we celebrated today.
537. Watching the staff get so excited about a PARTY!

 

538. Shoe shopping...

 

539. A BIRTHDAY PARTY!

540. Our babies survived the party chaos...

541. The future pastor

542. Beautiful Girls.

543. Fine bobos.

544. Helpers to cut the cake.

545. Mother and child

546. Auntie Patricia

547. Fruity drinks and Isatu

548. Surviving shopping in ton

549. Avoiding a fight because I didn't give the crazy man at Lumley a visa

550. reading a book for a 2nd time and finding out that i totally missed the point the first time.

551. Staff prayer in the afternoon

552. new socks

553. walking a mile to get new socks

554. the same 6 imodium pills in my purse as a month ago!!! (that means I haven't used any this month! WOW!)

555. reunions

556. saying no to buying things that I don't need because you can still shop online from Sierra Leone and that's bad when all 5 seasons of House are on sale!

557. BBC radio

558. sharing food

559. finding the right fabric

560. strawberry, kiwi, banana crystal light

561. drinking 1.5 l of water today!

562. a nice bed with a mosquito net to sleep under

563. aloe vera

564. passing 200 cars stuck in traffic and still making it safely home

565. God's protection everyday

566. 3 more packets of candy corn

567. dreaming up a Christmas pageant for the kids

568. hip, hip, hooray

569. at The Covering we pray for each on birthdays...and God's gifts are enough

570. hearing the kids sing, "I am fearfully and wonderfully made!" with extra enthusiasm

571. hearing the kids sing a song from CEF (I remember it from backyard Bible Club) "I am inright, upright, downright, outright happy all the time!)

572. Watching Mohamed and Daniel counsel a mom who misses her children

573. Aunty Marie baking 4 cakes from scratch

574. cold coke--a gift from Rema

575. a family that loves me...you all looked so cozy in your turtlenecks and sweaters yesterday...I miss you!