Something Happy

Amidst all of the "yucky" stuff going on, there is something happy to share. I'm headed to Ghana! Sometime in April. I will get to travel at the same time as two very sweet families in order to share in their court experience. Also, I will be traveling very near where Kendi was born. If time allows maybe I will get to meet her birth family or at least see her home village? I'll be taking pictures for her family, just in case.

Every trip to Ghana carries with it such mixed emotions. I miss my friends there. I miss the smells and the sites and the FOOD! LOL! I don't miss the heat (and April is the hottest month of the year), but if you're going to Ghana you've gotta experience the heat.

We're in such a different place with our family dynamic than we were a year ago. Our whole married lives Eric's mother and father have been our backup caregivers. When I travel to Ghana, they have always stepped in to help with childcare and transportation. But now they are caring for Eric's grandparent's full time. No more grandma/grandpa help is available for childcare (but they will still be able to help with transportation). What to do with four rowdy Gillispies? I honestly didn't know. Not many folks who will take four kids for two weeks, two of which will still need to do their homework, one of which will poop his pants if you aren't careful, and one of which who is positive and needs meds through the g-tube. Not many folks. But my friend Linda? She says bring it on! What's four more?! ;-) Praise God, unless Linda is in Liberia picking up her sweet baby Daniel, my kids have a safe, fun, and familiar place to go. Before talking to Linda I was seriously looking at Craig's List--we are that desperate. Thank you "Aunt Linda."

Before the need came up for me to be in Ghana in April I was thinking about going in August. In my mind, by August, I would have lost plenty of weight and would enjoy the "cooler" August Ghana whether. Oh well. You take Ghana when you can get her!