Stuff

We have re-figured our budget and with the support that has been coming in we are now only $400 a month from being at 75% support!

Our house has still not sold and we need prayer as we decide whether to just go ahead and rent it out or to try and keep selling it.

The girls are in their last few weeks of school (we started last July) so hopefully that will open up May to packing up the house!

We did end up being in both local newspapers which was a lot of fun. There was no link to the weekly newspaper but there was a link to the daily paper but no pictures. Of course right at this moment I don't know where it is, I'll add it later if I can find it.

We are having a hitch put on our itty bitty Prizm this week. We are allowed to take 8 duffel bags on the flight to Africa and they do not fit in our trunk! I looked into getting a carrier for on top of our car and I still could not figure out how to fit all the duffel bags in our car. We are also picking up one of my nieces in Kansas (on the way to Texas) to nanny our girls for us while we are in training. So we need room for her and her luggage too! Thus we decided we will need to rent a trailer to carry our bags to Texas and therefore the hitch to attach the trailer to the car! Isn't that all exciting?

We had the chance to meet another Mercy Ships' family 1.5 weeks ago, the Rich family. It was so much fun having them over! The kids got along great and are all looking forward to seeing each other in Texas in June. The funny thing is that Josh (the Dad) and I (Nanita) grew up about 5 miles from each other and went to the same K-12 school! Josh knows several of my nieces and nephews from school and working at a local Bible Conference Grounds. We did not know each other because I am, ahem, slightly older......ha ha

One last thing, Deborah and Anna were blessed to be able to participate in our regional Sparkarama at a local college last month. Our church has AWANA but has not competed in the games for several years so we went to the games to watch the cousins participate. I had the girls bring their completed books just in case they needed some extra Sparks to fill out the teams. Sure enough they needed some extra Sparks so both girls got to play but not for the same team my niece was on! They were on 3 different teams! That was hard to cheer for. Deborah was in green, Jem in blue, and Anna in red.