A normal day, i guess.....

I had to write this on paper first and so if it makes it unto the computer i guess it's important enough!! hiehie! OK i have decided to write it or type it out for those who still think life here is sooo idyllic!! Bless them! ;)

Why first on paper? Well, in the last 7 months we have lost 2 power supplies for our computer - may they rest in pieces! Just think about it - we have had a laptop for maybe 10 years now and never has this happened! Wear and tear gets a new meaning here! Africa is not only hard on its missionaries (another story altogether!) but also on its appliances!

So, here i was trying to do something on the laptop when the batteries finally died on me.....completely! I got up to do something else - wash the washing.....no water in the tank! So i had to pump water first, but then i also discovered the little filter to the washing machine is completely blocked up by nice green algae! (Living the Green life!) But i couldn't clean that out as i was still waiting for the water! I wanted to bake some bread, but was quite discouraged to do THAT after looking at the flour supply, so i decided to make some tea but then saw there was only about 100ml of milk left...big sigh... shops are kind of far, far away and in any case closed by now...

So i sat down to read a book - which by the way doesn't need any power by day, and then one boy got really hungry, close to starving by the sounds he made and then another and then another!
By now the house is till unswept (i hurt a muscle and rib so sweeping is extremely painful...by carrying a heavy hot water bucket...yes, another story too!), the dishes piled up because i had to send out our helper to organise firewood to heat water, which by now was filling up nicely.....

In all of this confusion and "deurmekaargeit" i hear a car's horn! Unexpected Visitors... but just in time!! And so i welcomed them into my really very disorganised home, quickly packed a basket with coffee and the last drops of milk (hoping the Lord will multiply that for the visitors' sake!) and off we went to the building site! Where we had a really good visit!

It is 12 o'clock now, the house is still in the same condition but the frustration levels have gone down a notch or two and i actually am having a cup of tea with the last drops of milk in it! All in all, a good normal day! ;)