Sunday, October 13, 2013

Sunday morning

Here is how Elliot does church.....
This is how Isaac does church......
Richard and Shaleah were in town to speak at a church in ladysmith this morning.  It was so good to see them up there, like good ol days.  Rich and Shaleah were the couple who made having kids look cool and doable......they would pack their kids on their backs and climb mountains.  We loved watching that.  They packed up their kids and moved to Africa for 6 years, adopted a beautiful little baby who just turned 7 this past weekend!!  She is a lovely little girl...so sweet and a great addition to the other little boys who we saw as babies/toddlers, and who are now 11 and almost 13!!  After church, we all headed back to camp to play and for lunch....it was such a beautiful day.....
Shaleah spoke at my 2nd womens retreat here at camp....she spoke about her experiences in Africa, raising kids, challenges....and I always just feel like we have had a connected conversation after our time together.  It seems so much more now in my life, that its hard to find good friends....especially in my life.  People come and go so quickly in this type of lifestyle....feast or famine!  Love who is in front of you at that time, stop looking around, and just breathe with the air in your environment at that time!! You don't need anything else.
Rich and Chris used to take these mountain hikes with Caleb and their border collie Tandy.....it was the type of outings that would make us nervous -- as in "Hey chris, I hear a waterfall through those bushes....want to go find it?"...."Yeah, sure, lets bush whack for hours and see if we can see it"......they would never find the waterwall, and would be bushwhacking for hours.....oh man.....Rich and Shaleah climbed Kilimanjaro last year....Shaleah made it and Rich had to turn back because he was climbing too fast and not letting his body acclimatize......they are the neatest couple and I wish we lived closer.  Now, Carrie lives close to them....Shaleah did say she feels like she knows Carrie just based on those newborn pictures she took of us all a few years ago.....
We didn't get to visit for long enough because we both had to jet off to seperate family dinners......but time well spent.