- A new boy came. Two years old. Mother died. Super skinny and malnourished. Covered in sores. Red and raw sore on his back with the spine breaking through.
- Two new preemies came.
- A new volunteer came. From Nova Scotia. Staying two weeks. A NICU nurse. She's nice. I like her lots.
- We went to the baptist mission and ate lunch together and played on the new playground.
- The shipping container finally came to Fort Jacques. We spent a good portion of yesterday unloading box after box after box after BOX.
- I got a bunch of awesome mail. Thank you everyone!
- Two families came for their court dates. One of the families had a little girl, eight years-old, who hung out with us on the balcony a couple of days. Another family came to bring their little boy HOME!
- We got handprints and footprints of all the children at the Main House! GLA does this every three months or so, and they will be sent home with the adoptive families.
- A couple of us volunteers slept in the living room last night instead of our own rooms. Just for some variety. Change it up a little bit.
- AND tomorrow I think we are going to go to the waterfall again!!!!!
It sure does warm my heart to hear of all the efforts GLA makes to respond to adoptive families' intense desires for connection with their children through those hard months of waiting. Would have meant so much to me.
ReplyDeleteEarnestly hoping you have a splendidly fun AND injury free time at waterfall or whatever adventure you find yourself on tomorrow!
Sounds like another busy week! Glad the package got there. I, too, am impressed at how much GLA does to give the adoptive families the little things that track their children's progress, even before they come home. So glad one of those little angels got to go home to his forever family! Hope your new little boy that lost his mother this week recovers from his sores and gains some strength and weight soon. I'm sure that he will be well cared for there at GLA.
ReplyDeleteHi Kath, I'm praying for the new two year old boy. Hope he is healing and feeling better. Love you. Dad
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