rice and beans

Friday early afternoon Matt headed to his wedding and the girls and I headed to meet my sister!  Sofie and Nora had still not met baby Addy, who is now 6 months old, and so we met in the middle and let the girls play and caught up a bit.  First world problems...It is surprisingly difficult to have an adult conversation with 6 kiddos at an indoor playground place :)  That's ok...it was wonderful to have some beautiful time with Evie, Jay and Addy.  

Matt was gone most of the weekend, but had a great time reconnecting with a lot of family he hasn't seen in years...all his dad's siblings and cousins and spouses, and was thankful for a chance to minister to so many people through officiating and preaching the wedding.

The girls and I had a slow day today, just what we all needed, and got everything repacked and ready for checkout before an 8 am service tomorrow morning.  

Tonight for dinner I thought it would be fun to give them the choice, so I described to them some of the dozens of options of restaurants and food within minutes of our hotel.  "You guys get to pick, " I told them, "whatever you want to eat, and you all agree, we're going!"

"Rice and beans!" yelled Lily.

"Rice and beans!" yelled Sofie.

"Sghetti and catsup!" yelled Nora.  

You can take these girls out of Haiti, but...

We settled on Chipotle, where they got a huge bowl of rice with black beans and shredded chicken and avocado and three spoons in, devoured the whole thing.  

I will continue to not understand why in the world they would want what we eat EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. of the year, and they will continue to not understand what in the world a chicken finger is, and why I want them to appreciate American food.  

So glad to have Matt back late tonight (he's out returning borrowed carseats right now, now that I have our carseats back), and tomorrow holds an 8 am and 10:30 service at Seeds of Greatness, followed by a 5 hour drive to Williamsburg.

John and Dorothy (better known in our family as Dodo and Bubba) have been trying to get us to actually vacation through their timeshare for years, and we finally said, SIGN US UP, and they did!  We've never been and don't really know what we're getting into, but know we have a free place of our own in Williamsburg for the whole week, and that friends, is precious.  SO THANKFUL Dodo and Bubba kept on us, and for these next few days to celebrate Sofie's seventh birthday Monday, to be with my sister's family (yep, the timeshare sleeps 8, which is close enough to the 10 my sister and I have somehow become)!

It's gonna be a big day and an awesome chance to have the Gospel renew us, to share the Gospel to renew others.