Day 3: Mommy on a Mission

I got to Instant Message with Laura for about 5 minutes today. She had an AMAZING day - emotional, but awesome in every way.

MOTHER THERESA HIV ORPHANAGE
Today the team spent the day at the Mother Theresa HIV Orphanage. Laura's words exactly were "Babe it was tough. it was really, really, tough."

She said she had the opportunity to feed a 2-month old who is HIV positive. She sat and held her for an hour - just rocking her and whispering God's promises to her and God's love for her into her ears. She said she was a sobbing wreck - but that God used it to help heal some deep, deep hurt she still had around Brighton and his death. Her words to me were this, "I wish somebody could have held and rocked Brighton." I like to believe someone did.

She said (as we both knew) the people have been amazing - they got to share lunch leftovers with some street kids and I think the city is bringing back so many sweet memories for her. I can speak from experience - that place feels so much like home to us - weird - maybe because our family grew there and planted some permanent roots as well - regardless of the reason - she feels great to be there...

HOME FRONT
Everything is great here! Tonight's video got some HUGE smiles from Meron. Laura sang a Camp Hoffman original that we always sing around here ("Doodle Bop") and Meron was smiling so big and singing along. She got so excited she yelled "I LOVE YOU MOMMY!" twice to the video.

The "Mommy Bag" treat was a pair of flip-flops and she pretty much flip-flopped for them! I had to break the bad news that no, she couldn't wear them to bed. Night night was a little bit of a challenge tonight - she tried every single stall tactic in the book - at which point I made her say "I am using stall tactics" - which was a bad parenting move on my part because that just made me laugh out loud (it was pretty cute) and then she started giggling and we were back to square one.

We eventually made it and all is quiet on the home front now.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CONTINUED PRAYERS FOR LAURA! I will update as I get more info from her.