The Dancing Amharic Writing

This is a wall across from our room at the House of Hope in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. There was a playground in front of it and beside it were the tubs where the girls did the endless laundry. This was a scripture, I think Matthew 3:23. I can't remember which book of the Bible it was. Don't the Amharic letters look as if they are dancing? The people resemble their language. Every sign I saw looked happy even amidst great poverty. One thing I was greatly aware of was that poverty on the outside cannot be compared to poverty on the inside. The phrase "The richness of their poverty" kept coming to my mind while we were there. There are many "rich" people in the world that live in much greater inner-poverty than those who have no earthly wealth but have treasure in heaven.

Show & Tell

Today was Show & Tell day at Kindergarten and today's letter was "J". Gunner wanted to take "J"ericho to school for his show & tell object. He did and Jericho liked the attention. He stood with Gunner for about 1 minute, if for that long, and then took off running out the door and down the hall. Gunner ran after him and that was the end of his show & tell for the letter "J". Grandma came along for the show and one of the little boy observing the sudden crowd in the room exclaimed "what's Gunner's Grandma doing here!" Obviously withholding his permission for her to be in the classroom :) What fun to be in kindergarten! When I picked Gunner up after school one of the kids saw me and went "kaboom!" and blew me up :) How fun.

SNOWDAY!

Today is a SNOWDAY! Got all of our snow regalia on and headed out for some fun. It took us longer to get our coats and pants and mittens and extra socks and scarves and snow pants on than it did to play outside.