Our Honduran Day

1. Up at 5:00 a.m. t0 pack lunches and prepare breakfast
2. 5:30 get 4 kids up, dressed, & fed for school
3. Pray and read our Bible while kids wait for bus & taxi
4. 6:30 all 4 kids are off to school
5. 6:35 other children begin to filter in for breakfast
6. prepare breakfast for others and start washing dishes
7. 7:45 all are fed, dishes are done, & table is cleaned
8. enjoy a cup of tea
9. 8:00 study Bible story for children
10. 8:30 Bible study until approx. 9
11. 8:45 Anna, our teacher for Rosa, Karen, Cesar, & Gershon arrives
12. 9:00 Anna begins school w/ Rosa & Karen
13. 9:15 Gershon, Fabiola, Mauricio, Cesar, Joyce & I head out to find a dance studio for the girls
14. 11:00 on the way to get ice while returning from hunting the dance studio we get stopped by police...our papers are expired and we have problems....we all pray while the policeman talks to our friend Carlos Coello...the policeman returns 10 minutes later and tell us everything is okay! Great example for the kids in the power of prayer.
15. Get home at 12:00 and serve lunch for all the children
16. Wash dishes, clean the table, & floor
17. Put Cesar, Antonio, Jesus, Angel, & Pedro to bed
18. 1:30 p.m. take Gershon, Fabiola, Joyce, Princess, & Chaquita to the vet
19. On the way get a phone call that a lawyer and judge for IHNFA want to see us (all of us) tomorrow in the judge's chambers at 10:00 a.m....have no idea why!
20. 2:20 have to take Gershon to soccer practice and return to vet to get Joyce, Fabiola, and the animals
21. get another call that we must go to the lawyer's office to sign power of attorney releases...don't want to do this, but see no alternative
22. each of these locations is across town from the others, so we take about 3 hours to accomplish these tasks
23. arrive home at 4:10 and leave again at 4:20 to take Mauricio and Cesar for a hair cut prior to karate practice...shop is full no haircuts, just have to wait for practice time.
24. Leave karate practice and head to soccer practice to pick-up Gershon and drop him at home.
25. Arrive home at 5:30 and wait to leave again at 5:50 to pick-up Mauricio & Cesar.
26. 5:40 the taxi driver who picks up our cook and takes her home comes into the house and tells me he has an emergency...the guard at the gate pulled a gun on him!
27. 5:45 head to the gate to talk with the guard about pulling a gun on our taxi driver...turns out both were probably wrong, but I tried to make sure the guard understood the danger in waving his gun around...I doubt I was successful
28. 6:00 pick-up Mauricio & Cesar and head home.
29. 6:30 eat dinner with Gershon, Mauricio, Cesar, & Joyce
30. 6:45 do dishes and clean table
31. 7:00 do study lessons w/Gershon, Mauricio, & Fabiola
32. 8:00 stop to go to the living room to tell somebody to be quiet for the 100th time
33. Find out Rosa pinched Angel and won't tell me why...won't answer any questions, won't even say yes or no
34. 8:10 I lose it and send all to bed!
35. Tomorrow's another day!