it's a no go

The only thing messier than my house this morning (and Nora) is every major airline servicing Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas or the Caribbean.

Charles' flight out of Haiti was to be Sunday, and was moved to this Thursday, and has now been cancelled altogether.  Matt's flight out was to be today, and they cancelled it yesterday.  He spent well over 3 hours on Skype on hold yesterday, calling as requested to get his flight changed...and still has yet to speak to a person.  Our other visiting professors both had flights out for Friday, and were both notified this morning that their flights have been cancelled indefinitely.  Please call.  We have a friend who was to leave last week, it was cancelled, so he quickly bought a ticket out of Port-au-Prince, drove the 7 hours there, and now those flights have been cancelled, and he is stuck in Port-au-Prince until who-knows-when.

It's a hot mess.

Matt was to start preaching one revival in Jersey this Thursday evening through Sunday with Uncle Don, and the second Sunday through next Thursday with Pastor Doug...and we don't even know that he'll be able to get out before the second begins at this point.  I'm not gonna lie, there are some cute girlies doing the happy dance this morning.  But we hate him being unable to fulfill these commitments and miss these opportunities to share God's Word.  We're sorry Uncle Don!!!

Our friend set to deliver any day now was waiting patiently for her midwife to come this Friday evening...whose flight now of course has also been cancelled.

There is nobody coming, there is nobody going.

Travel note:  When traveling, always take 10 extra days of your prescription medications.  Add, "Looking everywhere for meds for visiting professors" to our adventure list this week.

So, we're just all gonna keep on teaching and preaching and cooking and hosting and eventually, everyone's gonna get where they need to be.

Meanwhile, I raise my coffee to all the people whose problem this IS, and trust the Lord for all the grace and provision for the gaps between "supposed to" and "will be."

Nora, who talks more than all the girls put together, yesterday decided everyone was going to play train.  "LILY.  Play train.  Chita LA (sit here, in Creole).  Common.  SOFIA.  Play train. You chita la.  Common.  Now.  KITTY.  Common.  Chita LA. (he's on the blue chair in the back).  NOW."

little boss lady.  just what we needed.

Lily and Sofie all smiles for day two of school, and the bye-bye committee, still in their jammies: