We did our usual bedtime routine around 7 pm, bathed the babies, read books, and put them to bed. Each of us showered, knowing it might be our last in God knows how long, then we finished up the last bit of packing, drank diet coke, and kinda-sorta watched part of a movie (at super […]
“Isn’t this place great?!”
We made it home, by the skin of our teeth. Luggage did not. Babies doing well, 2 very tired mamas. More later.
We leave for the airport in a few hours. Our flight leaves at 1 am here, so this should be fun with the babies. Hopefully they’ll sleep the first leg. A few things… 1. Both babies woke up with a few red spots on their face 2 days ago. We panicked, googled “chicken pox” and […]
We spent the better part of the day trying to change our flights. We’d (of course) looked up phone numbers, diligently entered them in our African cell phone, as well as printed a contact sheet of everyone under the sun in preparation for such an event. The only problem is that phone service here is […]
In complete astonishment, we opened an email this afternoon from the Embassy saying they’ve cleared our files, the babies’ US visas are ready to be issued, and we can go home! In total shock. One day after turning in our investigations (the wait has been up to 4 months for some families). Turns out Ryan does […]
Ryan finished the investigations this morning. We asked Mr. Y to come and sign the narratives Ryan assembled so the Embassy doesn’t think we were just adding superfluous stuff. He called around noon and said he was on his way, so we called our driver Etu so he could take us and those precious investigations […]
Today we met our agency staff at a local hospital for the medical exam – the last little bit of the US Embassy file for the babies’ visas. Surprisingly, there were no glares, only kind smiles. Time here is extremely fluid. We were told we had an “appointment” for 8:30 am, so in typical “us” […]
And this is what happened. (Click on pictures to see larger). We didn’t get a great shot, but we ended up with some pretty funny ones… What? I AM sitting up! I’m fading, fading fast. My buddy, my buddy…wherever I go he goes, my buddy and me!
Barefoot in the Dirt 