Well, I am off to Guatemala in the morning to shine my light in another part of the world. How exciting is that?
It's actually a bit nerve wracking.
I've been trying to pack and prepare amidst some sort of horrible sickness that infected the kids one-by-one and then got me. I was down and out just when I was about to run my first (but definitely not my last) half-marathon. Somehow, I managed to crawl run the entire 13.1 miles with only one lung working and a tissue affixed to my nose.
I've recovered from both the illness and the lengthy crawl around town only to spend yesterday at the hospital with Rory while he was scanned for an answer to his chronic GI issues. I swear he is 60 not 6.
I scheduled in time to pack today from 12 until 1:50 which should have been plenty of time. Except two young girls did not receive the memo that it was NAP TIME. Maggie spent a great deal of the time covering her bed, wood work and walls with pencil drawings while I contemplated how many balance bars to pack.
And now I'm trying to pack and review spelling words with Molly and make Rory's favorite macaroni and cheese and write a manual for how to micromanage a funny farm but there are five children running around asking me to do a million other things that are of the utmost importance and can't-wait-another-second-without-my-attention.
SO, it really, really feels crazy that I am going to another country while everyone seems to need me SO much here. Doc Fink- do they make a pill for guilt?
If anyone is interested in where I am going or what I'll be doing please go to mirefugio.org and check out the good things that are going on down there.
In the meantime, if you see any blonde, freckled and hungry children wandering around please give them a hug and some macaroni and cheese.
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