Water......

Which is worse, NO water, or TOO much water? One thing I have learned about living in another country is every day is a new adventure! The other thing I have learned is that more than half of your time is spent just surviving. You learn to say, "If it isn't one thing, it is another." with joy and maybe even a giggle.

If you know me well, you know that one of my lifelong dreams is to be in the Amazing Race. If you don't know what that is, just google it and you can find out pretty quickly. Well, a few years back I decided that every challenging event that came my way I would look at as practice for the Amazing Race. So whether it is packing for a really long trip with limited space in our car, or going without water, or trying to hang a tarp to cover our leaking roof in the pouring rain, I see it as a challenge in the Amazing Race. It has served me well and has drastically changed my attitutude when doing these challenges.

So... when we arrived home Saturday afternoon after being in our old village for our church service on  Friday, we discovered that the rainy season was well underway and was leaking all over our school room and kitchen. Not to mention other parts of our house. So, an amazing race challenge began. Greg and I changed quickly into shorts and sandles and tried to cover the roof with a make shift tarp. It helped a tiny bit, but we had to do a little more work on it today. Then we saw another Amazing Race challenge, our front and back yard. They looked like small muddy lakes. So we then had to try and fill in the small lakes with gravel and rock. I have no idea what tomorrow's Amazing Race challenge will be, but I am a little tired and if it envolves soaking in a hot tub somewhere I would be really excited. Have no idea WHERE  we will find the tub, but I sure would like that kind of challenge right now! ;o)

This was our make shift tarp, to try and keep our roof dry and ceilings from leaking. Didn't help a ton, but it did help.

Greg and I after we had been in the rain for about 30 minutes fighting with the tarp.

We got caught in the rain again as we were trying to fix our roof and then discovered our backyard problems. The fun never stops!

backyard

other part of the backyard

ceiling upstairs showing signs of some problems

school room ceiling

Oops, it has now entered into the house through the upstairs door. This is fun! ;o)

Greg trying to find a solution.

Anyway, if I never make it to the actual Amazing Race, I will just know I have had some really wonderful challenges in this wonderful, AMAZING, RACE, called.... life! I am enjoying each and every day I have whether it be shoveling gravel, or sharing Jesus, I am a very satisfied lady! And.... I do appreciate so much all of your prayers for our family. Please do pray we can find some solutions for our water problems because rainy season has just begun! Love to you all!! Missy

Oh, here are some pics from before that I have been meaning to put on here and just haven't found time, hope you enjoy them.

This was before our roof problems and we were enjoying a nice meal on the roof.

This was Greg's idea of a bon fire, and his way of burning unwanted boxes. Not the best idea, but it was fun. We also burnt all of the kids workbooks from school. They love to do this after each school year!

Burning their hard work.

This is our stairway I was telling you about in the last post.