Finishing Well

Jer ran in his first race.  It was a fundraiser for the Bibleless people of Kenya.  It was supposed to be a 10K but the route ended up being only an 8.7K disappointingly.  He ran with his friend David who had been training with him.  And their friend Esayas did the 4K walk. Mommy and Annabelle and Junio got up at 6AM to watch Daddy.  There were tears when Junio realized that Daddy didn’t win the race and get a trophy.  I tried to explain that he was competing against former gold medalists in the Olympics and that Daddy was very happy with finishing in 47 minutes but I don’t think he quite understood!

Jer is also busy finishing the race to complete this school term.  He is slowly working away at all the presentations and papers.  Almost there and then it will be break!  Ahhh!

Junio just finished a week of Vacation Bible School.  He has come home beating his chest like Tarzan and singing silly songs all week. But then, what else is new!  

Annabelle is finally back to normal after a whole month of one sickness after another.  She is happy and soooooo talkative!!  She went back to baby class two days this last week and always comes home with lots of stories about her friends.  She is now working on counting in Swahili, which has been fun!  

I am feeling better now after a couple of trying weeks with blood pressure problems.  It turns out that I have gestational diabetes and even though the two things aren’t supposed to be related, when I went on this special diabetes diet, I have had hardly any problems with my blood pressure and I feel so much better.  Praise Jesus!!  Another praise is that a German friend of ours happened to have an extra glucometer so I can test my blood sugar.  We were dreading having to buy one here because they are so expensive but he said that I can use his extra one until I have the baby and don’t have to worry about it anymore!! Yeah!