Noah and Kaleb

Here is Noah's interview:

1. What is something your mom always says to you?

"I love you."

2. What makes mom happy?

"A clean house."

3. What makes mom sad?

"When we disobey. I was about to say a dirty house, but that's mad, not sad."

4. How does your mom make you laugh?

"When she miss says things and tells jokes."

5. What was your mom like as a child?

"I don't know, are you kidding me who knows what their mom was like as a child?" Apparently I should open up more about my childhood.

6. How old is your mom?

"Um, I thought, are you 32 or 30? Daddy is 34 so that would make you 30. How old is daddy mom?"

7. How tall is your mom?

"Um" insert laughter "Um, 5'2, no there is no way your 5'2, I don't know, why don't we measure you right now."

8. What is her favorite thing to do?

"Stay home with her children, or go places with her children."

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?

"Do stuff on the computer, and maybe read a little."

10. What is your mom really good at?

"Mothering, teaching, cooking" "Oh, she is good at cleaning the house, type that in there too."

11. What is your mom not very good at?

"I am sure she is not very good at surfing. Of course we don't surf, so daddy's not any good at it either. I just don't know how you keep your balance on that board."

12. What does your mom do for her job?

"Um, stay home and take care of children."

13. What is your mom's favorite food?

"Soup"

14. What makes you proud of your mom?

"A lot of things. She is here with us all the time instead of working like other moms. She likes children, of course that is obvious."

15. What do you and your mom do together?

"School, we do Bible studies together."

16. How are you and your mom different?

"Um, she's 31 and I am 11 she's a girl I'm a boy and she is taller than I am."

17. How do you know your mom loves you?

"Because she punishes me when I do wrong things, and she tells me she loves me all the time."


Last but not least, Kaleb's interview.

1. What is something your mom always says to you?

"Stop saying ya know what I'm sayin'"

2. What makes mom happy?

"A clean house and not having to watch the democratic convention when she goes to work out."

3. What makes mom sad?

"Her own sinful state, and mine."

4. How does your mom make you laugh?

"With her humor, her smile, and how passionate she is about some things."

5. What was your mom like as a child?

"Spoiled and depraved"

6. How old is your mom?

"30-something"

7. How tall is your mom?

"About 5 and 1/2 feet." He only knows this, because he knows his own height...the same as mine.

8. What is her favorite thing to do?

"Spend time with her family."

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?

"Go shopping, date her husband, and occasionally spend time with her girlfriends."

10. What is your mom really good at?

"Getting her point across."

11. What is your mom not very good at?

"What did Noah put?" Uncontrollable laughter "My brother has a point, she is probably not very good at surfing. She is also not very good at rock climbing. In fact she would never even attempt it." Yep, he has that right.

12. What does your mom do for her job?

"She is a homemaker."

13. What is your mom's favorite food?

"ANY kind of Soup" OK, for the record I love soup, but tacos are my favorite food. (HTML edited by the interviewee)

14. What makes you proud of your mom?

"Her dulocity." laughing "Half the people who read that are not going to know what it means, so put in parenthesis, her servants heart." Half the people? Only the people at our home meeting last night will know what it means.

15. What do you and your mom do together?

"Talk and look at third party candidates."

16. How are you and your mom different?

"Well there are many ways that we different, but I think the biggest difference is that I am a little bit weirder."

17. How do you know your mom loves you?

"Through her actions, ya know what I'm sayin'?"

Interview With a Six Year Old

So I got this interview thing from another blog (who can be found here). Thought it was to fun. I have done a similar thing before, if you really want to get into your kids mind ask them questions like these. Once I asked my boys the question "What is the difference between marriage in real life and on TV?" Noah, blushing and giggling said "There is WAY more kissing in real life." So that tells you quite a bit about our home life...obviously they don't see much TV, and my beloved and I do kiss a bunch. So anyway, here is Grace's interview about...me.

1. What is something your mom always says to you?

"Pick up your mess."

2. What makes mom happy?

"Having a clean house"

3. What makes mom sad?

"The house being dirty, like a pig style" Seeing a pattern here? Yes, she did say style. She has a language all her own, instead of hello she says "Hi Lo"

4. How does your mom make you laugh?

"By doing funny things." Apparently things like this make her laugh too, because she laughed the entire time. I'm so funny.

5. What was your mom like as a child?

"I don't know, I wasn't born yet"

6. How old is your mom?

"Um, how old are you?"

7. How tall is your mom?

"Two feet" Close, but not quite.

8. What is her favorite thing to do?

"Read."

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?

"Read"

10. What is your mom really good at?

"Cooking"

11. What is your mom not very good at?

"Um, Um, going to sleep. Cause there is really nothing you are not good at, except sleeping." HUH????

12. What does your mom do for her job?

"Teaches us"

13. What is your mom's favorite food?

"Soup"

14. What makes you proud of your mom?

"That she's my mom"

15. What do you and your mom do together?

"cook"

16. How are you and your mom different?

"She's big and I am little, but that is not the only thing"

17. How do you know your mom loves you?

"She takes care of me."

She knows me pretty well, except for the sleep thing. Trust me, I am VERY good at sleeping.

I am working on a gotcha day post. I have a problem though. We left our camera with the gotcha day pictures in Uganda (I KNOW!!!!) and I have yet to get it back. I am supposed to, but.... Anyway, I do have a good video, so I am trying to have my resident techie (Kaleb) transfer it, edit it, and all that jazz so I can post. Hopefully I will be able to soon. I am so anal that I can't get out of order, so no more adoption posts until I can bring my self to do it with our pictures or we get the video done:)

More interviews to come.

Accosted At the Food Court

That title got your attention huh? Rest assured it is not what you think, just an over stimulating guilt producing experience in Uganda.

So here we are in beautiful Kampala Uganda, we have made our stop over at our lawyer's office and have taken care of business. We are tired, stinky, anxious, and hungry. So our faithful driver, William, takes us to Garden City for a bite to eat. Garden city is mall, like a real mall, in Kampala. I personally believe this place exists solely for tourists. It was so expensive, I couldn't even afford to shop there. Most of the people we saw there were either clearly foreigners or locals with foreigners. Although they did have two things going for them. A decent food court and an AWESOME coffee shop. This is where we spent many an afternoon, while waiting for someone to come pick us up and bring us back to the guest house. It would have been horrible, were it not for that coffee.

Anyway, so William takes up to the food court. This is a pretty spectacular place, with various choices of ethnic cuisine. Italian, Chinese, Indian, American....you got a hankering for food from your homeland, you can probably find it here. Not to mention is has a wonderful view. It is on the second floor, overlooking lush green grass and gorgeous trees. I am starved but hoping this isn't going to take too long, because I am beyond ready to get to Jinja. This would be my first experience in Uganda, teaching me that in Uganda, there is no such thing as something that doesn't take too long:) So we, being the Americans that we are proceed to walk up to the counter we want to order from. William quickly tells us to have a seat. All rightly then. We pick a table and have a seat. IMMEDIATELY we are accosted with waiters and menus from every restaurant in the place. All of them standing over us, pointing out the various and yummy fares on their menus. There they all stood over us, five or six people, waiting for us to decide what we wanted. Each of them trying to convince us to order from them. Now under normal circumstances I have a difficult time deciding what to eat. Under these it was nearly impossible. I knew what I wanted, but dare I say and send the others away with out an order? How could I? I didn't want them to think I thought their food was ant less appetizing. Should we order something from each of them...that would make it easier right? Finally I whispered to my faithful beloved "I want Chinese, order for me, I have to go pee." Whew, got out of that one by the skin of my teeth. This is how it was each time we ate there, but after that I was prepared. By the time we left Uganda, I was able to say to them "I will be having Chinese today."

Over an hour later we were full and on our way to Jinja. We asked how long it took to get from Kampala to Jinja. "It depends" was the reply we got. We soon found out it could take about an hour and a half, or well over three hours. This trip, in the afternoon when traffic was at it's worst...well over three hours. It seemed like an eternity. It didn't matter though, every mile brought us closer to meeting our children. I have never been so excited and panic stricken in my life. What on earth do you say to children, that are yours, that you have never met before? Do I hug and kiss them or will that over whelm them? If I cry will that freak them out? How on earth am I NOT going to cry? I did the only thing I could do, I prayed for grace.