Archive for Guatemalan adoption
Electricity just in time for Santa to find Semillas de Amor
Posted by: | CommentsWithout any fanfare or major announcement, I think we were in shock, we are now connected to electricity. This only took us several years of meetings, phone calls, signatures, more meetings, more signatures, more phone calls and just simply bugging people and a whole lot of patience. After a Saturday connection we came to work on Monday and acted as though we had no electricity. No lights, no running water and then it hit us we could plug in the refrigerator, microwave, flush the toilet, turn on the lights. What a luxury. Needless to say we would love to go all solar but the initial investment is too much so we will do that little by little and hopefully one day sell the electric company back our electricity. Read More→
Go Fly a Kite!
Posted by: | CommentsWe are in kite flying season. As is custom in Guatemala, the kids make their own kites, with tissue paper and thin pieces of wood. Amazing these kites can fly like they do but check out the photos of the kids running like the wind with their kites following right behind.
Please don’t forget about our drive for donated gently used Halloween costumes (see the Halloween post below).
Friday Morning Hike in the Mountains
Posted by: | CommentsFriday morning we left for a two hour hike, up the mountain near our home, with 14 kids, five dogs and six adults. This was the first hike on this trail which is steep going up and not much easier going down. Our youngest hikers were three years old and the oldest was me (but you won’t get my age). What a gorgeous morning. We have had some rain, so everything was green. There were lots of little buggies out, which made the kids very happy. On the entire two hour walk, no matter how steep it was, not one child whined about being tired, thirsty or wanted to go home. In fact they wanted to keep climbing. The kids have lots of space to run at the children’s home but our Friday afternoon hikes take them out from behind our big wall and into the countryside. It is isolated and rarely do we see anyone on the hikes. And the best part, it is free.
The kids filled my pockets with treasures, as you will see in the photos. Our gardener, Juan José, identified all the seeds and plants the kids brought back. The children are going to plant some of the seeds to watch their treasurers grow.
Our hikes give the children an opportunity to “talk while we walk”. Most of the kids have a zillion questions about the world around them. This time gives us the opportunity to spend quality time with our oldest kids and is invaluable to them. We can never replace a family for these children but we can try and get as close as possible to being their family until they are able to have their own. Enough love, attention, food and education is costly but the investment is well worth it.
It is always nice that we can find things to do for free, since running our children’s home is expensive. We continue to need your support in every way. If you would like to make a financial donation to our children’s home please click HERE.
Have a wonderful week, from all of us at Semillas de Amor!
