Well, lately I feel like I have forgotten that we have a blog! I did not realize until today that I had not even looked at it in over a month. My, where does the time go? It is amazing how fast time flies here in Cusco. I pray that you are all having a wonderful holiday season and are enjoying time with family and friends.
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| Our only decorations this year. These are the stockings that I made last year when we lived in Costa Rica. |
We have been doing a bit of Christmas stuff ourselves lately. I think the highlight of this holiday season thus far for me has been a dinner with all of our staff from the Josephine House, the local orphanage where I work/spend a good bit of my time. On Sunday night all of the "mamás," the women who take care of all of the children in the orphanage, dressed in their nice clothes and we all went out to dinner at a restaurant near our house. It was such a fun time to get to hang out with them outside of the orphanage. The director of the orphanage, Ruth and I put together baskets for each of the mamás for Christmas. This is a very typical gift here, and consists of sugar, rice, oil, popcorn, spaghetti noodles, chocolates, canned milk, and a paneton (which is like a fruit cake). Supposedly Christmas dinner is not complete for the Peruvians without a paneton. It was such a wonderful evening, and I continue to be so encouraged and blessed by each and every one of these women and their love for the orphans.
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| Eating dinner together |
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| All 14 of the mamás who work at the Josephine House |
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| Christmas Celebration at our church |
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| Church congregation |
Things at the eye clinic are also moving right along. The only things that are lacking now are inside doors and toilets/sinks. We anticipate those things to be done within the next few weeks. Nathan is hard at work fine-tuning last minute details for the container of eye equipment that will be arriving soon. We are so excited to see the eye clinic open up in this new year. I will post recent pictures of the progress of the eye clinic soon.
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| And you never know when you might go to a wedding and get a plate of baked guinea pig! |
