Adoption

Ladies and Gentlemen. Michael and I would like to make an announcement. We have decided to adopt!

It's true. Now before you start claiming that we are young, wreckless and have no money or knowledge about such things, hear us out.

When we first arrived a local mother was struggling with her children. She had several who were all about the same age and everyone on campus adored them. However one day it came out that in the night 3 of them had died off due to malnutrition.

Michael and I were heart broken because we had played with some of the kids and had become quite fond of them ourselves. Thankfully one of them survived but the mother was being neglectful even with that one ! So on Thursday after much thought and prayer we decided to take her in. Anabelle Bell helped us in so many ways to clean her up, because she had been literally living outside and her hair was crawling with fleas. On Friday we took her to the doctor to get her immunized and began treating some of the skin issues she had.

Her name is Sauce and she is absolutely adorable! She, of all things, has blonde hair, brown eyes and the sweetest disposition you can imagine. We don't know exactly how old she is but we are guessing about a year give or take a few months.

She is sleeping thru the night and gets up with me in the morning to eat breakfast. It's difficult managing the teaching thing with her but we are getting the hang of it. She normally sleeps while we are gone and wakes up for attention, food and games when we get home.

Sadly, I think this will be more of a foster child experience. Adoption rules overseas can be rather hairy and even though we know we can give her a better life, I don't know if it will be worth the hastle to bring her back home. Chances are that we will leave her here in hopes that her mother will snap out of her funk and take care of her. But we just want to make sure she is healthy for the first year of her life.

Well her little tail is wagging at me so I better sign off. Puppies are so hard to ignore.