The Monday After

In case you're wondering why no new blogs have shown up this past week, we packed two weeks into one!! HA!! and there was no time for blogging!.

Last Saturday we went to the village for a service and then came home to begin fixing food for our stay in Osikova because we knew we would be "running" there.

Sunday was a normal busy Sunday with kids staying-- about 21. Here's a couple pics from the game in Kids' Klub.

The task was to unfold the chair, sit in it, take sunglasses out of their "jar," put them on and blow a whistle, relay-race style.

She was too tickled to blow the whistle




Monday morning when we got all the blankets, clothes, food and items for Jason and Joanna packed, we headed for Kyiv in both vans. Dave drove the Mazda. I drove the VW. We agreed to meet at different stops along the way so we would be in the area if something happened to either vehicle but wouldn't be trying to pass in dangerous places.

Tuesday we managed to get the documents that gave Jason and Joanna the legal right to drive the Mazda and Katrina the right to drive the VW. We got stuck in a traffic jam and that took up all of our day, except for stopping by one store, on the way to meet Jason and Joanna at the airport. We met them, came back to Osikova, fixed supper and after talking, hit the hay!

Wednesday when we saw they were up at 6:30, we quickly got up and got dressed and headed out to shop for tools,appliances, groceries etc. We shopped until the guys were saying "I'm starving!!" and Joanna said, "I'm ready for our list to be finished!"--four hours before we finished it! With the van loaded to the point that the passengers barely were able to get in and out, we headed back to Osikova. After we unloaded there, we ate a quick supper, visited another couple in Osikova and then began the 6-7 hour drive back to Nova Odessa, arriving at 3:30 am. (Katrina's blog has pictures of her side of this.)

Thursday we went shopping for groceries for Sunday.

Friday we had school until 2 pm and then we started cooking for Sunday until around 10 pm.

Saturday we went to Odessa where Katrina found a car! We've been rejoicing in that fact ever since! : )





We got back home and worked on cooking and cleaning for Sunday.

Sunday was "Harvest Sunday." We prepared for around fifty people, lots and lots of food. We ate in our courtyard because there wasn't room for us anywhere else. There were around 35 people if we counted correctly. (Katrina's blog has pictures of her side of this.) We had Sunday morning service, a program where many had either a song or a poem. I tried to do a chalk talk in Russian (for the first time since I did them for VBS at Independence).
Lunch was served at 1 pm. Here's one of the eight fall centerpieces we did for the tables.

We had Kids' Klub a bit later than normal. A new girl came! After Kids' Klub, Seth, Marina, Nelya, Allona and Vova worked on the dishes for at least two hours maybe, three.

I owe them!!!

Now it's Monday and time to get started on a new week. We need to help Katrina with the paperwork on the car. We need to get a full week of school in. We need to catch up on washing and continue our other chores, fence-building, etc. Talk to you later.