Last week, we had the privilege of spending four days at the orphanage 24/7 to help take care of the kids.
While it was tiring and trying at times, it was such a blessing to be with the kids, love them, and have them love on us.
Here is a little glimpse of each day:
5:25 Hear Connie, the night lady, up and knowing it was time to get the kids up and out of bed.
5:30-6:15 Get the kids up, showered, and dressed, and make sure they clean their rooms. Pretty sure Connie could have done this completely by herself. That woman is amazing!
6:15-6:30 Morning devotions. This consisted of one of us telling a story while someone translated.
6:30-7:00 Breakfast (which consisted of pancakes, various kinds of cereal, other normal breakfast foods).
7:00-8:00 Kids leave for school and two of us go with them. The rest of us clean up from breakfast and get our breakfast ready.
8:00-11:30 Eat breakfast, get showers, watch/ play with Rosita and Henry (the two little ones who didn’t go to school), lose Angelo (just temporarily one day), clean, laundry, try to sneak in some personal time. Usually a couple people went to the market during this time and occasionally a couple of us attending an audience (court hearing) for one of the kids.
11:30-1:00 Prepare and eat our lunch, help with lunch prep for the kids, set the table, make lots of tortillas.
1:00-2:00 Kids return home from school, eat lunch, and we wash dishes, and dishes, and more dishes.
2:00-4:00 Attempt to help the kids with their homework, even though we don’t know Spanish.
4:00-6:00 Play time. Play jacks 57 times, jump on the trampoline, have tickling battles, push kids on the swings.
6:00-6:30 Prep for supper. Make more tortillas.
6:30-7:00 Supper.
7:00-7:30 Clean up from supper. Wash more dishes.
7:30-8:30 More play time.
8:30-9:00 Evening devotions.
9:00 Bedtime. Huge sigh of relief. Thank God for helping us through another day
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