We spent our last few days in Fort Collins at my sister Lori's house. Four of my sisters live on the front range, so I got to see Lori, Jane, Chris and Lianne. Adri got to meet more cousins and Emma loved playing dress up with the girls!
While I was feeding Adri one night, Emma was introduced to S'Mores!! She's 5 and has never eaten one before! Graham crackers don't exist here and it's rare to find marshmellows. The milk chocolate just isn't the same, so it's really not worth even trying. I'm so glad Emma's first S'More was a real one:)
Emma and Olivia have become little friends over the years. The first time Emma stayed with Olivia, she was only 18 months old. Now they're friends and have so much fun together.
Ashley is another niece who came to visit for an evening. She and her sister Alison are great babysitters!! I used to take care of them when I was in college and now here they are, all grown up and taking care of babies themselves!!
Our time in the US flew by. It was so great to see all the people we did, but it made us long for home even more. Surprisingly, though, I wanted to come back to Brazil at the end of our trip. I just felt like our time here wasn't quite over. That's definitely starting to change as I feel very strongly that our time here is coming to an end. Words can't convey the emotions going on inside me. Maybe someday I can write about it. For now, I'm going to try to soak in the sights and sounds of Horizontina. OK, that's a lie. . . I'm not really interested in the sounds here (it's so loud). The sights, however, I would like to have imprinted in my mind for years to come. OK, that's kind of a lie, too. Most of the sights, not all. I killed a bat two weeks ago, so that's not a sight I want to remember. I found a cockroach under Adri's crib, so that's something I'd like to forget. I'm sure I'll laugh about those things again someday, just not now:) Right now, my heart is being pulled toward the north. Pray that I'll have patience for the transition. Then I'll ask for prayer for the endurance to walk through the transition:)
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