This has been a very exciting week for us.  Not all weeks are like this.  Some times you go day to day with the same old stuff, same old routine, nothing to write home about.
But, oh, this week has been full of different emotions, excitement and joy mixed with some sadness, feelings I didn't thing about when we started a girls home.

Ndoto feeling very determined to figure out how this puzzle works. 

All of our girls at Mara Girls Home are settling in and couldn't be happier right not.  I'm sure a clean bed, three meals a day and fresh water are helping with that.  One little girl (Ndoto) that came from another village just keeps smiling and giggling  It's very contagious!  I had never met her before but I am completely in love with her.  I'm sure if you heard her giggle and saw her determination to try things she has never tried before, you would melt too.

Ndoto showing off her new clothes.

The day we opened the home we invited the guardian or parent to bring the child and to see for her/himself where the child will be staying.  One parent came with her daughter and first thing handed me the death certificate for the girls father.  That was very sobering.

Savannah explaining how the floor puzzle works.

An older girl we invited to stay at Mara Girls brought a few cousins and friends to see where she would be staying.  The look on those girls faces broke my heart.  I'm sure inside they were excited for their friend, but they seemed very down hearten that they would not be staying as well.  That was such a mixture of emotion for me, as well as for those girls I'm sure.
At that moment I realized,  I can't take all the girls.  As I go about in the village or go to church and I see those little faces of the girls that won't be coming to stay at Mara Girls, and I get that sad little face looking at me, I feel so broken.


So, its a mixture of feelings, excitement and sadness.  We will keep praying that God will send us the girls that He has planned for us, the girls that don't have a safe place to call home.  For now, I am so thankful for the these sweet and innocent girls that God has brought us to care for!  Each moment with them is a gift for which I am so thankful!

They got it done!

This week we also finished putting in the playground for our school and community. We are so thankful for the VBS kids at my sister's church that gave for that!  I am amazed that those kids gave so much and I hope that they will see and know just how much their gift means to the kids in this village!