Monday, November 19, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Fun in October
Hey everyone
We have been going through a bout of illnesses here for the past two weeks and haven’t been able to send out an update about our activities in October.
October proved to be a buys month for us. The first weekend we drove south a few hours to visit our good friends from language school and encountered a terrible drive down as they are tearing up the road and have what they call “diversions” or now you will drive on an even worse part of the road so that we can fix all the potholes. This road has been torn up for almost a year now. At least we don’t have to drive that every day to work. We had a fun getaway to the country and seeing our longtime friends.
The third weekend in October we had our costume party with the high school. Our theme was Welcome to Hollywood and everyone came dressed as their favorite movie character. We had kids dressed as classics like Zorro, Susan from Lion/Witch/ Wardrobe, Men in black, and the girls from High school musical. We played a classic dice game called Bunko for about an hour and a half and surprisingly they all went wild having fun playing. You never know with high schoolers what they will like. We gave out prizes for costumes and for winning the game. All in all it was a fun night. Kayla dressed up like a princess and Emma went as a baby jaguar. The girls love being a part of our “parties” and having big friends come to play with them. It is truly a joy to see them both being embraced by the high schoolers and included in our activities. The high schoolers go out of their way to try to include the girls.
The last weekend in October we had a donut making party and not just for the fun of it. The following day we sell our donuts at our bizarre (large garage sale) at our school. The money we are earning will go towards the kid’s big trip as seniors. We are hoping to save enough to travel down to the coast for an adventure trip. We didn’t quite make enough money selling just donuts as we had hoped so maybe next bizarre we will add coffee drinks. If anyone has any great fundraising ideas they want to share let us know.
Several of you have asked about the construction going on behind our house and it does continue. It is interesting to watch construction here and a bit scary at the same time. Everything is done by hand with very little machinery. So far they have taken down the house and all the trees by hand and have started mapping out where the apartments are going to be. It continues to look like they will enclose our whole backyard. We are hoping that they will be far enough away from our wall that people’s windows won’t be looking down into our yard. Although on a positive note this will probably not increase the value of our house so maybe our rent will stay the same next year when we renew our contract. Or we could pray the owner runs out of money J That happens a lot here and apartments just sit on lots left undone for years.
Life continues on with Kayla and proves to be intense most of the time. This year will just be an intense one. We have found a nice therapist who is European and works well with Kayla, we see her once a week. She has also recommended speech therapy once a week as well for Kayla’s expressive problems. We still can’t ask Kayla hardly any questions or talk in a conversation. We continue to pray the Lord’s healing for her and this month will you specifically pray for her relationship with Eric. This disorder leaves kids very emotional and attached to one parent usually (mom). Many dads feel left out and frustrated throughout the difficult times as these kids prefer one parent over the other. The other night Eric tried to take Kayla downstairs to play so I could rest and she didn’t want to go. She then continued to cry and become inconsolable for at least an hour and a half. Finally after being sent to her room to calm down she fell asleep at dinner time. It is situations like this that leave us tired and frustrated. We continue to pray for wisdom especially in disciplining her as sometimes it’s hard to know where the disorder comes into play and when discipline needs to be applied. So please pray for Eric this month that the Lord would give him understanding, wisdom, and a special love for Kayla.
We continue to thank you for your gifts of support and prayers they are appreciated and continue to provide a means for us to do our work here. Thank you for thinking of us faithfully
Kara for the Gibsons
We have been going through a bout of illnesses here for the past two weeks and haven’t been able to send out an update about our activities in October.
October proved to be a buys month for us. The first weekend we drove south a few hours to visit our good friends from language school and encountered a terrible drive down as they are tearing up the road and have what they call “diversions” or now you will drive on an even worse part of the road so that we can fix all the potholes. This road has been torn up for almost a year now. At least we don’t have to drive that every day to work. We had a fun getaway to the country and seeing our longtime friends.
The third weekend in October we had our costume party with the high school. Our theme was Welcome to Hollywood and everyone came dressed as their favorite movie character. We had kids dressed as classics like Zorro, Susan from Lion/Witch/ Wardrobe, Men in black, and the girls from High school musical. We played a classic dice game called Bunko for about an hour and a half and surprisingly they all went wild having fun playing. You never know with high schoolers what they will like. We gave out prizes for costumes and for winning the game. All in all it was a fun night. Kayla dressed up like a princess and Emma went as a baby jaguar. The girls love being a part of our “parties” and having big friends come to play with them. It is truly a joy to see them both being embraced by the high schoolers and included in our activities. The high schoolers go out of their way to try to include the girls.
The last weekend in October we had a donut making party and not just for the fun of it. The following day we sell our donuts at our bizarre (large garage sale) at our school. The money we are earning will go towards the kid’s big trip as seniors. We are hoping to save enough to travel down to the coast for an adventure trip. We didn’t quite make enough money selling just donuts as we had hoped so maybe next bizarre we will add coffee drinks. If anyone has any great fundraising ideas they want to share let us know.
Several of you have asked about the construction going on behind our house and it does continue. It is interesting to watch construction here and a bit scary at the same time. Everything is done by hand with very little machinery. So far they have taken down the house and all the trees by hand and have started mapping out where the apartments are going to be. It continues to look like they will enclose our whole backyard. We are hoping that they will be far enough away from our wall that people’s windows won’t be looking down into our yard. Although on a positive note this will probably not increase the value of our house so maybe our rent will stay the same next year when we renew our contract. Or we could pray the owner runs out of money J That happens a lot here and apartments just sit on lots left undone for years.
Life continues on with Kayla and proves to be intense most of the time. This year will just be an intense one. We have found a nice therapist who is European and works well with Kayla, we see her once a week. She has also recommended speech therapy once a week as well for Kayla’s expressive problems. We still can’t ask Kayla hardly any questions or talk in a conversation. We continue to pray the Lord’s healing for her and this month will you specifically pray for her relationship with Eric. This disorder leaves kids very emotional and attached to one parent usually (mom). Many dads feel left out and frustrated throughout the difficult times as these kids prefer one parent over the other. The other night Eric tried to take Kayla downstairs to play so I could rest and she didn’t want to go. She then continued to cry and become inconsolable for at least an hour and a half. Finally after being sent to her room to calm down she fell asleep at dinner time. It is situations like this that leave us tired and frustrated. We continue to pray for wisdom especially in disciplining her as sometimes it’s hard to know where the disorder comes into play and when discipline needs to be applied. So please pray for Eric this month that the Lord would give him understanding, wisdom, and a special love for Kayla.
We continue to thank you for your gifts of support and prayers they are appreciated and continue to provide a means for us to do our work here. Thank you for thinking of us faithfully
Kara for the Gibsons
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