One month, tomorrow is the day, Kai’s close call

Brittany sent pictures of the twins last night. She has to make a special effort to get them to me because I do not do Hangouts. About a week ago she sent 50 pictures of the twins because Mama and I had mentioned that we had not seen any recent pictures. Many of them were just to blow up our phones but there were some that were very cute. They are growing quickly, gaining weight, making more and more facial expressions, thrashing, kicking and stretching; getting those muscles ready for crawling. I do not think they are flipping over yet but that should be happening soon. Sophia has lost a lot of her hair and Mama is wondering if it will be coming back in blonde. When we lived in Victoria, Brittany had a friend whose name was also Brittany. Our Brittany had blonde hair and her friend had black hair. The twins we were watching at the time referred to her friend as “black Brittany” one morning. She took great offence until she understood it was a reference to hair color. Mama would be able to tell our Brittany’s twins apart either way. It’s a mommy thing. Although I can tell them apart I am still struggling with attaching the right name to the right child. It’s a daddy thing.

Mama and I leave tomorrow for Florida. She is overly excited. She was up at 4 am making a list and doing laundry in preparation for packing tonight. I will hopefully check in online this morning with Spirit Airlines. I have not found their site easy to navigate and they are impossible to reach by phone so this may be the last time we use them, but that is what we have for now. Back to Mama, she has made a separate list for the care of the animals in her absence. Grant and Blake have been very diligent in feeding the animals. Grant still calls them “aminals”. We may not get as much mileage out of the feed we have on hand but they have adopted the farm animals as their own responsibility and have been careful to follow through on ensuring they all have food and water. So far, we have not had any chickens, pigs or goats escape through open gates and Mama has only occasionally found a feeder or waterer empty. So, we can relax and know they are all in good hands while we are away for four days.

I called the director of the children’s home in Tampa to see if we could schedule a visit with him when we arrive tomorrow afternoon but I have not gotten a response. He is the US contact and overseer of the ministry Nate and Cori and the kids will join next year in Honduras. Since Mama and I are praying about the possibility of volunteering for that or a similar ministry when I retire, we wanted to have the opportunity to introduce ourselves and get his input on how we should be praying and what part of the ministry needs we could possibly meet.

Kai, our weather goat, is struggling to get around. It looks like a sort of arthritis. Rather than watch him suffer and eventually die, I have convinced Mama and Victoria that we should take him to the market and get some meat out of our two years of feeding him. It took some doing to get them to go along with the idea. Mama scheduled his appointment for today but with us getting in late from FBI and Nate unfamiliar with the whereabouts of the processor in Muenster, we decided to wait until next Tuesday to take him over. I will be off Monday so it will be a much easier process to get his loaded for Nate to take him over. Mama wishes it was already over but we have one more week to baby him before I get my baby back ribs.

That’s farm living.