So far, the week just keeps rolling along. We are still waiting to hear about a court date. It has been 6 days now and we have not heard from a facilitator yet... We did have a great weekend visiting the kids. As you can see the picture, Rorie finally is starting to attach to me. About half way through our afternoon visit, she crawled over to me, climbed up into my lap, and fell asleep! Yea for daddy daughter time! We took a banana along with us as well yesterday evening and Rorie absolutely loves them! She ate the whole banana! She got quite upset when the banana was all gone but she quickly got over it. Cole has been amazing as well. He has been much more awake and interacting with us. We have some
The cooking lessons from babooshka and mama have been going very well. One day when we got home absolutely exhausted, they came over with this amazing rice dish. The next day, I asked them if they could teach me how to make it. Last night we finished our third cooking lesson. It is so much fun and a great time of fellowship with another family even though we don't speak the language and all of our other interaction with people that are here and that we are working with have been extremely rude and cruel to us and the other family that is with us. So far I have learned how to make the rice dish, Plov, a fried pocket with meat, Chubrekuy, and last night a stuffed dumpling with meat, Manti. Tonight when we get home from the orphanage we will be making borsch, which is blood soup :). We have a full week planned of meals to learn.
We are getting ready to go for our morning visit so this isn't very long, I will try to post again tonight when we get home. Please continue to pray for us and the other family as we continue to wait for a court date, or for that matter, any information or contact from our facilitators. The other family has just walked out the door to go visit their other child which is about 45 minutes away. The facilitator called and gave them 15 minutes notice to get ready and leave....unbelievable. Please continue praying for all of our situations. God Bless.
I LOVE the picture of Fred and Rorie together! Look at Cole too...he looks like a little cunk a muffin...you just need to munch those cheeks :)
ReplyDeletePraying for you to hear about a court date soon!
Unfortunatly his cheeks are the only "chunky" part of his body! But I munch them every chance I get!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe enjoyed plov several times on our last trip. Ask them to teach you to make solyanka, another yummy soup.
ReplyDeleteThe cooking lessons sound wonderful! Enjoy the borsch! I'm sure it will be wonderful. You may want to clarify for everyone though that even though it looks like "blood", it's not like blood sausage in the UK (which is made from blood). This is made from beets. LOL Either way, I love it!!! Yum!!!
ReplyDeleteYou are making me very hungry! Please come and cook for me when you get home. Or, put together a little cookbook for me, huh?
ReplyDeleteIn court you might be asked if you will teach your children about their heritage. What a great way to say "Yes and I even know how to make borsht for them!" That's gotta score points!