You might be wondering what this is...this is a cheese dip container that is almost empty. I bought this cheese yesterday. The only one to have any of this cheese is Ray. Yesterday he asked me if we had anything to snack on, so I gave him this.....I had just opened it. I didn't see him out it back in the fridge yesterday, in fact I didn't think of it again until I opened it today to have a little and I was so surprised to see all that was left was just a little.
This is why I feel justified in blogging about him and all the sickness he has had....because he eats all my cheese and doesn't say anything about it! This is also why I would hid twizzlers from him.
Now that I have complained about Ray I feel like I should say I love him very much and wouldn't trade him for all the cheese dip in the world....now twizzlers are a different story!
It was a slow day around here today. Well as slow as four kids, cleaning, grocery shopping and a million loads of laundry can be....so I had some time to think about lots of stuff, and this is what I learned today
1) If Benjamin takes his diaper off before I am ready to change him, there is a 100% chance he will pee on my new, hand wash only sweater!
2) With in 5 minutes of cleaning the toilets someone is going to poop in 1 of them...or some days all of them!
3) If I feel the need to drive down the street and pick my nose, it is completely acceptable here!
4) This is a math problem: 5 blankets on my bed + 1 husband with really bad gas= one smelly bed in the morning!
5) My husband is a good sport!
6) I walked around for a unknown amount of time with my pants unzipped...
7) When my children loose their teeth I should just hand them the money right then...I make a terrible tooth fairy. Parker woke up this morning with his tooth still under his pillow and I had to double my payment for the tooth out of guilt!
8) My children don't think that I can rap very well....but then I also realized they must be crazy....word to your mother!
9) and i was going to end it with the last one until I looked down and saw my pants unzipped again....what is going on here!
I had a busy day today here in Romania! We didn't go to language school today because Ray and all his sickness, so I thought I would get caught up on some stuff I had to do around here. I had lots of cleaning to do, and I had to switch out all the summer clothes and get the winter clothes out...that is a big mess when you are doing it for 4 kids! While I was doing this, the little boys were doing some of their own things...
This is what Timothy did when I was busy...he emptied out their toy cabinet and dumped it all behind the couch.Look how proud he is! Please don't look at the couch, Ray bought that before we even got here. He saw it in an email of stuff people were selling and he just had to have it. I know that being married means you have to make sacrifices, and I feel like I have done that with the purchase of this couch!
And then there was this.....
Benjamin colored all over the wall with crayon! This took almost an entire Mr. Clean Magic eraser to get off! But its a good thing my brought me like 100 of them!
So in between all of this I went to the market to buy some apples! I wanted to make a dessert and some apple sauce. I bought 4 kilograms of apples, that is equal to a little over 8 pounds, and I payed around $3 for all of it! I love to buy apples here, they are very cheap. So I made a double recipe of apple cobbler and I made apple sauce...
I love to make apple sauce. You can't buy it here and my kids love it. Plus isn't it part of the BRAT diet for diarrhea, and everyone knows who has diarrhea in my house!There are lots of recipes that call for apple sauce. So I love making it. I just got a food processor about a month ago, so now my apple sauce is smooth. There were some complaints before about it being lumpy! So here is my lump free apple sauce!
Most of you know me, and you all know that I am pretty much an open book. I will tell a lot of my personal business and not think twice about it, so today I am going to blog about Rays personal business and not think twice about it!
Ray has been sick off and on for going on three weeks now. It has been a lots of diarrhea (which I blogged about a few posts ago) and fevers and aches and all that stuff. Well like the good wife I am, I was getting worried and I wanted him to go to the doctor. He had emailed back and forth with a doctor friend of ours who I think is a wonderful doctor, but I just wanted him to have a once over by someone in person! Plus I was feeling sorry for our friend....how many emails a day can you read about how someone poop smells....gross!
So I made Ray an appointment at a private hospital (because that's how we roll) to see a doctor, who thankfully spoke English. Before we went Ray was a little apprehensive because he didn't want them to do a bunch of tests and all that. I told him don't worry, you will be in and out in no time with a prescription for antibiotics and that's it. I was wrong!
As soon as she found out Ray had been on antibiotics and then still had a fever she was worried and she needed to find out why. But first I would like to talk about the thermometer. She pulled this thing out a drawer and then stuck it under Rays arm. no cleaning it, or putting something over it!(I took a picture of it when she left the room so I could put it in my blog!)
Anyway at the time she took it, it was only 99 degree's and she was very concerned! She wanted to run tests, oh no! Well she wanted to do an abdominal ultrasound, and then a chest x-ray...here is the picture of it, I also took this when she left the room...I am very sneaky!
But my favorite part of all of this is when we went down to the lab to do his blood work, yes that's right there was blood work too. Anyway when we went down for it they couldn't speak English very well, but I did understand this...."in this one you put your poop, and in this one you put your pee pee!! But wait, she pulled out three different ones Ray has to put his poop in....love it!! And of course I took a picture of what he has to put his poop and pee pee in...and just so you know the ones with the blue lids and the clear lid are for poop and the red ones are for pee!
And don't worry, I won't take pictures of them after Ray makes his deposit in them! Like I said a the start of this blog I have no boundaries and there poor Ray has no boundaries!
Ray also came home with a bunch of medicine, and no real answers about anything except that he may have the flu... Oh and we found out Ray has a heart murmur...which is weird because last time we took Lizzie to this hospital we found out she had a heart murmur....hmmm!
We were invited to a different church this morning. This is the church our babysitter and our neighbors go to. It was such a great church, very welcoming, full of great people. We felt right at home there, and no one seemed to mind our 4 loud children which is a huge bonus.
Just one small thing that made it a bit of a challenge...
This is a squaty potty, and this was there only option for a bathroom! (This is not their actual potty, I thought it would be rude to take a picture of theirs....but it looks pretty close to this!) My toilet using children were not to excited about this. Well I take that back, one of my children were so happy...Timothy. He saw and said with so much excitement... "Mama, it's a squaty potty!!" A back story on this, is that there was one of these where we were living in Virgina, so people could practice and for those people going someplace where this was all there was they could get used to it. Well I thought no need for us to use it and Timothy was still in diapers while we were in Virgina so he never got to try it. So that is why he was so happy today!
Parker and Lizzie were not having it! Parker finally went and then Angela took Lizzie, and then brought her back to me and tried to explain that Lizzie would not go. I was kinda surprised by this because we went to a village church on Saturday and Lizzie used this potty with no complaints.....
This was taken after a successful trip to the potty in which Lizzie and I were both inside that little building behind us...it was a tight fit! Anyway, back to today and the squaty potty. Lizzie straight refused to go and she held it for the next 30 or 4o minutes...bless her heart! I think this is something that is going to take more time before she won't mind using it. And just for the record, in case anyone wants to know...I used it, and had no problems!
Can I be honest? The last few weeks here have kinda sucked for me. Am I aloud to say sucked....I can say butt, so maybe suck is okay too! Well anyway, I was having a bit of home sickness, and that is no fun. And we were having some issues with kids as well as some other stuff. I missed my family and my friends and I was frustrated with lots of things.
I stopped doing the things that I usually do here like going out and walking around the neighborhood, and shopping at the small outdoor market by our house. I started only shopping at Carrefour, where I didn't have to talk to anyone. I could get my stuff and be left alone. I could tell the person who is ringing my stuff up that I don't speak Romanian, and I could tell them that in English and they understood. Not like at the market, I have to ask for things on Romanian there. So I stopped going, I stopped walking, and I stopped liking Romania. I forgot why we came here, and I wanted to go home.
Some of you might be thinking, but wait, your a missionary, didn't God call you there. And the answer is yes He did, but do you always feel like doing what God has called you to do...be honest! If someone would have said, Becky you can go home, and don't worry about a thing. I would have said ....done...send me home. But no one did that.
We were told this would be hard, but you can't imagine how hard it is until you do it. Until you find yourself living and trying to function in a different country. You can't imagine how hard it is when your family is home getting together, and your not there. Or when you friends are having girls nights, or play dates and your not there.
We have made some really great friends here, its not like we are alone! I not saying all of this so people will feel sorry me. I don't want you to get the wrong idea from this either. This is where we live, and this is where we will stay, but this is where my heart was until this morning....
This morning I needed some vegetables for the soup I was going to make for dinner and I had to go to the bank. I could do both of these things just by walking down the street. So I went to the market that I had been avoiding...
And I bought my vegetables and I spoke Romanian to the same girl I always buy them from. And she smiled at me, and seemed happy to see me again. As I walked back home I stopped at another store to buy a drink for Ray, I talked to the two brothers who work there. They speak to me in broken English and I talk to them in very bad Romanian, but it was nice, we laughed at each other! I walked the rest of the way home and I started to remember...
I remembered why we are here, and why we will stay here. I remember that even though I gave up lots of things to be here and made sacrifices to be here, God gave it all. So how can I not stay, even on my bad days, how can I not stay? So hopefully my attitude adjustment will stay adjusted for awhile and all the little kinks that still need to be worked out will be worked out....and we will stay until God tells us to go, whenever that may be....
You might be wondering what this is...this is a cheese dip container that is almost empty. I bought this cheese yesterday. The only one to have any of this cheese is Ray. Yesterday he asked me if we had anything to snack on, so I gave him this.....I had just opened it. I didn't see him out it back in the fridge yesterday, in fact I didn't think of it again until I opened it today to have a little and I was so surprised to see all that was left was just a little.
