Please God, not Africa!

Today, Nate borrowed our friend's back-hoe to do a little work here at our house. It belongs to our friend, Stan, and looked a little like this one here: After using it, Nate decided to take it back to Stan's and give our two smallest boys a little ride. While they were on the road, heading over to Stan's, a fire started in the back hoe. And it went from looking like the above photo to this: And this: And this: (The above photo is where my babies were sitting with their daddy!) Nate, obviously, had time to get the kids and himself out, then he called the fire department who came and put out the fire. Because we live in a small village, I heard the air-raid siren that signals all the volunteer fire fighters to come to the hall. My sister and I heard the siren and I said to her that I wondered who that was for. Never did it occur to me that it was my husband and boys who were the ones. This is a miracle. And even more so because Stan, our very ...

I'm losing track. There have been so many really cool things that have happened in the last week, I'm losing count of all the miracles we are seeing. Between Tuesday and Friday of last week we had a few more families let us know that they were excited to support us. We received all the kid's new passports. And I got speak with the Project Manager of the hospital work site on skype -- a totally flukey, right-place-at-the-right-time, God-ordained thing. It's incredible. I decided to make one of those "fundraiser thermometer" things and hang it in our dining room. It's not exactly a thermometer ~ it's a snake. And every stripe of the snake is $100 of support. So 42 strips to go. As the kids colour in the stripes, I'll post some pics so you can see it. On Sunday morning two men showed up to our church. One is a surgeon and the other is an anaesthesiologist. (for sure I spelled that wrong) They both have worked in Togo at the hospital in the s...