We head home in 24 hours (not that anyone is counting)! None of us can wait to get off that plane and settle into home life and a regular schedule. I don't expect to have much time to write today. I started an email/blog yesterday and intended to finish it last night, but in an effort to put both the girls to bed, Macie chatted me right off to sleep.
So far, I have had pee on at least half of what I packed, caught vomit in my hands, gotten snot all over my shirts and had my gag reflexes trained to sniff out the nastiest of diapers. Welcome to motherhood!!!
Really though, the girls are beautiful and very smart. Macie is a bit more independent while Ella refuses to let me even put her down. Needless to say, it has been an adventure and I hope that both I and they will adjust a bit better once we are all back in our own space.
We made it through our embassy appointment without any problems and have been playing to the point of exhaustion with the rest of our time. Today we will learn how to cook Injera (Ethiopian bread) and Wot (stew) and pack things up for our long trip home. Ethiopian air is asking that we be at the airport 4 hours early (WHAT THE HECK?). So we will be wandering around a foreign airport for WAY too long with two toddlers causing a ruckus. How fun is that?!?! :). Oh well. That's what they get for wanting us there that early. Anyway, it will be a long day of waiting and an even longer night of travel.
We should get into DC around 7am on Friday morning! I can't wait!
I have taken a ton of pictures of the girls and of the country itself. I will post them as soon as I can, but it may be a few days. I have so much to share. There has been more emotion packed into this week than I ever could have measured and my heart and mind have been changed by this culture, by it's people, and of course, by my girls.
I will come here again. I have no doubt that I will bring my girls back so that they can know this place and all the beauty that it holds. In the ugliest of poverty, there is beauty amongst the people that far succeeds any beauty I have ever seen.
I will miss Ethiopia's warmth, it's pride, and it's love for it's people.....
There is so much more I have to share, but there is also the whimper of a 19 month old baby girl coming from the other room.
P.S. She is whimpering for me (big grin).
Happy Thanksgiving Beth, to you and all your family. Glad things are going well. Its wonderful that things are smoothing over for the girls and that they are bonding well with their new mommy and family. Hope you all have a smooth flight. Yikes, what a long day it will be. Take care.
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As I type this, you should have landed in DC only hours ago. How I wish I could have been there to greet you off the plane! More tears, but all are tears of joy.
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Welcome home to your whole family. I am glad everything went well and the girls are crying for you. As for the dirty diapers, pee, vomit and snot, welcome to parenthood. I hope it is all you expected it to be and more.
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