A View Through My Window

I thought that once we were in the States that I would have time to blog and to scrap, since I wouldn't have my regular activities to fill my time. WRONG! I haven't had time for anything along that line. First, school takes up the morning, as usual. We brought along work for Janelle and Taylor, and they work every morning. Shopping doesn't take up a lot of time in Bernal, as Walmart and Sam's are 45 minutes away, so I only get there about once a month, and do all of my shopping then. If I don't have something, I just do without or make something else. If I need veggies or milk we shop at the tienda on the corner. Sure is different here. The small Walmart is only 5 minutes up the road, or the big one 10 minutes the other direction. Seems we are always needing something for dinner, or for the kids or whatever, and run up to Wally's.

One weekend in November we took a quick trip to Mississippi for a reunion with our adoption group from when we adopted LiAnne. It was fun to see everyone again, and to see the changes in the girls---and their siblings. The weekend was over too quickly! We are thankful for the good relationship we have with the great families that we traveled with four years ago next week.





We have enjoyed attending the church here in Nixa. It has been good to visit more with the folks who came down last month to help in the construction in Tequisquiapan, as well as with others that we know at the church here. All three of the kids have enjoyed going to Awana. The church gave them books, vests and carry bags. They loved that. They will be able to take them with them to continue to work on learning the verses when we go back home.

Thanksgiving we spent with family over at Brad and Ali's house. There were 20some of us there. Some of the non-family who were there are from China, so it was good for Janelle to be able to visit with them in Chinese. Two teen boys are students at the nearby military high school who needed a place to stay for the vacation week--and were staying with Brad and Ali. They were both from Shenzhen--where Janelle is from.