We have been filling you on on our journey, here is a bit of general info. It is in the low 90s and humid every day. The season is called hermetan (spelling not sure) and it is windy in the afternoon. It has not been too buggy, but we use bug cream and take anti-malarials to be safe. There can be mansions next to homeless and near shanty type homes by where we are. Ghanian money is cedis and to US 1 dollar is like 1.4 cedis. Lots of cars have Jesus and pray messages, it is largely Christian with a muslim influenced government. The main language is English, as there is many tribal languages. The kids at BH all learn English and Lamisi speaks pretty well. Linda is more quiet. They already call us mommy and daddy regularly and comfortably and Jeremiah says mama. There are lots of street vendors - we have bought bananas and boiled eggs that way. We have air conditioning at our hotel, but there are rolling power outages every day. The water is not filtered, so we boil it in an electric teapot and buy bottled. IT is hot, so you drink a lot. BH has a good filter for drinking water, so we refill there sometimes. It is laid back here, so service is slow and things can run a half or one hour late regularly. We will report more tomorrow, besides school we are taking the kids to market (a local vendor/craft area. Love to all!!!
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Hello to all, I'm finally up and blogging (thank goodness for a snowy Sunday afternoon) and we have enjoyed seeing all the photos of your beautiful new family! I'll keep you in my good thoughts tomorrow as Matt heads back to court. Hopefully, there will be good news and a short time between your departure and reunion with the kids. (Singing Paul Simon's "mother, child reunion" in my head, but its better than the Christmas song at the Hibachi Master!!)
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Alex and Ben too!
Hi DesJardins! We are loving your posts and pictures. What beautiful children! We are praising God for His perfect timing and perfect plan for your family. We can't wait to see you again and especially for your whole family to be together. We'll be praying for the full adoption decree and looking forward to more pictures. Love you guys!
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So happy for all of you. Thanks for the blogs we have been thinking of you often. Everyone in the office keeps stopping by to see pics of your kiddos. Keep them coming.
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Sorry that I'm delayed in my comments but I'm catching up in my reading all this! You might already know this but here the temp is low 20's and we've had a gob of snow-over a foot! So it's been shoveling mania and very gray looking. Schools were closed today and yesterday. I love this blog-you all did a great job putting it together!! I'm trying to read every word that you write.................
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