Sunday. Since I drive in Honduras, it shouldn't have been too big of a deal. I had Beth come with me for crowd control. Unfortunately I broke the key that unlocks the door to their van the day before. It was an old key and it just snapped off. They were going to get a new key made on Sunday, but we still needed the van before that. They told me to go ahead and drive the van and just leave the back hatch unlocked and send one of the boys through to unlock it when we made stops. So we went to church leaving the hatch unlocked and locking the rest of the car. Sending the boys through to unlock the car for me. We did likewise on our stop for lunch at the Chinese place in town. I thought we had done the same thing on our stop for groceries. I had dragged the boys through the store with me filling our cart with food, promising them I'd buy them ice cream if they were good for me. We check out and landed within 10 cents of our budget..(go me!) We trudged out to the car to put away the food before we bought and ate ice cream. I came to the van with 4 boy under the age of 7 in toe, tired and ready for their ice cream. (They were very good in the store.) I went to pull the hatch up and nothing. It did not move, time stood still. I pulled again. Nothing. Then I heard Juniors sweet voice, "Miss Jessi, I locked the door for you." I looked at him and just blinked. I really wanted to just lean down and hug him and say "Thank you baby for helping me." Instead I just froze not knowing what to do. Then it hit me, William, my next door neighbor, who happens to be really good with cars, was at the mall. If I could just find him I was sure he could help me get into the car. Well, I grabbed two of the boys and left the food and two of the boys with Beth while I went to find William. I found him quickly, he was standing with some of the older guys talking. In an exasperate ton told him my plight. Edgar and Oscar were standing near by and took and interest in my story. William, Edgar, Oscar, me and the boys went out to the car. Edgar came just to laugh at me and said as much. Well, around this time it started to sprinkle. I sent Beth inside with Enmanuel, Junior and Cristian to get ice cream. Oscar went to help translate. William worked and worked to get the car open. After Edgar was done laughing at me he also tried to get into the car, with no luck. Finally after a good while, and it started raining harder, ( I had to take the bay in) Edgar helped me by calling a lock smith and getting the price down. The lock smith came by and had the car open in about 2 seconds. I then gathered the boys together and we headed home. It was something that would have only happened to me. It was a day to remember for sure. The picture was taken in school and is of Kensy, me, and Junior.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
One car mishap
While staying with Enmanuel, Junior, Cristian and Darwin, I had one of my many car mishaps. I was with them over a weekend, which meant we would go to church on
Sunday. Since I drive in Honduras, it shouldn't have been too big of a deal. I had Beth come with me for crowd control. Unfortunately I broke the key that unlocks the door to their van the day before. It was an old key and it just snapped off. They were going to get a new key made on Sunday, but we still needed the van before that. They told me to go ahead and drive the van and just leave the back hatch unlocked and send one of the boys through to unlock it when we made stops. So we went to church leaving the hatch unlocked and locking the rest of the car. Sending the boys through to unlock the car for me. We did likewise on our stop for lunch at the Chinese place in town. I thought we had done the same thing on our stop for groceries. I had dragged the boys through the store with me filling our cart with food, promising them I'd buy them ice cream if they were good for me. We check out and landed within 10 cents of our budget..(go me!) We trudged out to the car to put away the food before we bought and ate ice cream. I came to the van with 4 boy under the age of 7 in toe, tired and ready for their ice cream. (They were very good in the store.) I went to pull the hatch up and nothing. It did not move, time stood still. I pulled again. Nothing. Then I heard Juniors sweet voice, "Miss Jessi, I locked the door for you." I looked at him and just blinked. I really wanted to just lean down and hug him and say "Thank you baby for helping me." Instead I just froze not knowing what to do. Then it hit me, William, my next door neighbor, who happens to be really good with cars, was at the mall. If I could just find him I was sure he could help me get into the car. Well, I grabbed two of the boys and left the food and two of the boys with Beth while I went to find William. I found him quickly, he was standing with some of the older guys talking. In an exasperate ton told him my plight. Edgar and Oscar were standing near by and took and interest in my story. William, Edgar, Oscar, me and the boys went out to the car. Edgar came just to laugh at me and said as much. Well, around this time it started to sprinkle. I sent Beth inside with Enmanuel, Junior and Cristian to get ice cream. Oscar went to help translate. William worked and worked to get the car open. After Edgar was done laughing at me he also tried to get into the car, with no luck. Finally after a good while, and it started raining harder, ( I had to take the bay in) Edgar helped me by calling a lock smith and getting the price down. The lock smith came by and had the car open in about 2 seconds. I then gathered the boys together and we headed home. It was something that would have only happened to me. It was a day to remember for sure. The picture was taken in school and is of Kensy, me, and Junior.
Sunday. Since I drive in Honduras, it shouldn't have been too big of a deal. I had Beth come with me for crowd control. Unfortunately I broke the key that unlocks the door to their van the day before. It was an old key and it just snapped off. They were going to get a new key made on Sunday, but we still needed the van before that. They told me to go ahead and drive the van and just leave the back hatch unlocked and send one of the boys through to unlock it when we made stops. So we went to church leaving the hatch unlocked and locking the rest of the car. Sending the boys through to unlock the car for me. We did likewise on our stop for lunch at the Chinese place in town. I thought we had done the same thing on our stop for groceries. I had dragged the boys through the store with me filling our cart with food, promising them I'd buy them ice cream if they were good for me. We check out and landed within 10 cents of our budget..(go me!) We trudged out to the car to put away the food before we bought and ate ice cream. I came to the van with 4 boy under the age of 7 in toe, tired and ready for their ice cream. (They were very good in the store.) I went to pull the hatch up and nothing. It did not move, time stood still. I pulled again. Nothing. Then I heard Juniors sweet voice, "Miss Jessi, I locked the door for you." I looked at him and just blinked. I really wanted to just lean down and hug him and say "Thank you baby for helping me." Instead I just froze not knowing what to do. Then it hit me, William, my next door neighbor, who happens to be really good with cars, was at the mall. If I could just find him I was sure he could help me get into the car. Well, I grabbed two of the boys and left the food and two of the boys with Beth while I went to find William. I found him quickly, he was standing with some of the older guys talking. In an exasperate ton told him my plight. Edgar and Oscar were standing near by and took and interest in my story. William, Edgar, Oscar, me and the boys went out to the car. Edgar came just to laugh at me and said as much. Well, around this time it started to sprinkle. I sent Beth inside with Enmanuel, Junior and Cristian to get ice cream. Oscar went to help translate. William worked and worked to get the car open. After Edgar was done laughing at me he also tried to get into the car, with no luck. Finally after a good while, and it started raining harder, ( I had to take the bay in) Edgar helped me by calling a lock smith and getting the price down. The lock smith came by and had the car open in about 2 seconds. I then gathered the boys together and we headed home. It was something that would have only happened to me. It was a day to remember for sure. The picture was taken in school and is of Kensy, me, and Junior.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Quadruple trouble
A couple of weekends back I took care of these 4 little munchkins. I had them for 4 days. It was a tiring four days filled with Enmanuel's endless questions, cooking 3 meals a day, changing sheets, getting them ready, and trying to keep them busier than they were keeping me! I think that I failed when it came to trying to keep them busier than me, because I didn't stop once! I tried to pull the house into some kind of order at night when they were sleeping. We had fun, but I was so tired when I was done. 
Here are some pictures I took at dinner one night when I feed t
hem spaghetti. 
Saturday, July 5, 2008
No words...
I am quite confident that there are no words that could possibly come close to describing how cute my kids are as this picture does. Yes, just like this picture suggest they are perfect angels and never fight, never whine at me, always do just as they are told, and I love them so so dearly. The road that they are walking on in this picture is a road that we walked everyday (during the school year, we're on summer break now.) It goes from the houses down to the school...and if you walk on it the other way, it goes from the school up to the houses! I walked the kids up to their houses for lunch after school everyday. This picture was taken on a beautiful day right before rainy season. It's one of my favorite pictures of my kids.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Berries!
The beginning of berry season is always an exciting time at Rancho Ebenezer. You can see the excitement rising on everyone’s faces as we watch the fresh blooms turn to sour red berries, ripening into the dark sweet black berries. The youngest on the Ranch to the oldest eagerly pull red berries off the vine
s and suffer through the sour taste in anticipation for what is to come. Now that we are well into berry season and have eaten more than our share of black berries it is a little easier to pass up the delicious delicacies dangling from the black berry vines. Now most of our black berries are making their way to the kitchen in Casa Grande rather than our mouths. The kitchen staff as been working hard making black berry jam, while the teenage girls have been making black berry tea through the work program. It’s wonderful to be able to have something that not only we can grow and enjoy, but that it severs as a means to teach the young people at Rancho Ebenezer. Not only is it a learning experience but goes to help support the Ranch and our efforts there. Berries is just one of the natural blessing we have at the Ranch.
s and suffer through the sour taste in anticipation for what is to come. Now that we are well into berry season and have eaten more than our share of black berries it is a little easier to pass up the delicious delicacies dangling from the black berry vines. Now most of our black berries are making their way to the kitchen in Casa Grande rather than our mouths. The kitchen staff as been working hard making black berry jam, while the teenage girls have been making black berry tea through the work program. It’s wonderful to be able to have something that not only we can grow and enjoy, but that it severs as a means to teach the young people at Rancho Ebenezer. Not only is it a learning experience but goes to help support the Ranch and our efforts there. Berries is just one of the natural blessing we have at the Ranch.
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