Loving Home Improvements

Hi Everyone,
In the picture above is sassy little Hope from OLA. What a pistol she is and she LOVES posing for pictures. She's started school this year so we're sure some of her energy is being channeled, which is a good thing. grin Remember me telling you a while back when the teams from the U.S. were here how we had redone the small children's room? I don't remember or not if I had sent pictures to you showing you some of the improvements. I saw them in our picture saving place (I sound real computer savvy, don't I?) and thought just in case I had never shown them to you, now would be a good time to do that.

This room used to be blue and wasn't in horrible condition, it just needed to look brighter and more inviting and cleaner. Through a "baby shower" given in Indianapolis to raise funds for the renovations, we were able to just this week complete everything. We bought all new colorful (orange, red and purple - to match the colors on the walls) sheets, waterproof mattress pads on all the cribs, new cribs, new mattresses, two large wardrobers in the older childrens' room, a dresser with changing tables on top (the picture above doesn't have the changing tables on them yet - it was taken before we got the tables put on) and mosquitoe netting for each crib unit, new paint on the walls and the "Jesus Loves Me" letters on the wall.

Then, yesterday some of us staff women went to OLA and had a training session for the caregivers on the new cloth diapers that had been donated. I'll show pictures of the training in the next blog. I don't know about you, but through the years because of all the changes that Crist and I have gone through, I have found that we adjust to change pretty well. But we know for others it is not so easy. Let's talk about that next time. Hope you all are well and joy-filled. It's HOT here! Please pray with me about that, okay? Thanks!

Chat with you soon!

In-joy,

Eileen and Crist

"It is not that we are qualified to do anything on our own, our qualification comes from God." II Corinthians 3:5