WonderGIRL heads to Haiti

My WonderGIRL is heading to her first missions trip to Haiti tonight…..I wanted to capture some of her thoughts and feelings here so she can reflect on them after she returns and years later to fully re-live her experience. Our house has been a minefield of emotions this past week as she sorts out different feelings of excitement, nervousness, and the fear of abandonment. She put it quite brilliantly to a family friend last night saying, “I am really excited to go on the trip, but I am super nervous to leave here.” This tension is heartbreaking but what I do feel confident in when sending her off is the ability for this challenge and experience to help her grow, not only in giving back to others but in growing confident away from our house and me in particular.I am excited about:
– seeing all these kids
– hand out lollipops to kids and see smiles on their face…..I like seeing kids smile and then it makes me smile
– they get healthier because we have medicines and doctors to make them feel better

I am nervous about:
– potentially getting sick
– messing up in giving medications that I might give someone the wrong thing
– seeing things that might scare me (destruction or sick/dying people)
– wanting to give the kids everything but I can’t do that
– Mom forgetting me at home while I’m gone
– leaving the house for that long of period

I wonder about:
– How does the food taste?
– Why are some people super poor?
– Why are the stores so expensive can’t get what they need?
– How people in Haiti look at God…..is their God the same God that we worship? How is he/she different?

I predict some changes when I return:
– better behaviors at home
– respecting what I already have (sometimes when I feel like I don’t have enough or I want more…..to know I have a lot more than other kids)

Prayers for both of them and the children and families they are about to touch in Haiti greatly appreciated!!!!

WonderBOY’s turn to take over…

 WonderBOY on cleaning the house:
I like cleaning the house because….because….mmmmm……because choring and cleaning and doing garage shoes and if I do it without complaining, I might get a responsibility point. Those are what I get without complaining doing things and if I lie, I get one taken away. If I get 15, I can play video games for 10 minutes.

On Sis earning her cell phone:
She had to get 25 points to get her phone. She can text and call the parents. She can text (her friend) and Becky, Mike, and Lori. And she is 13. When I am 13, I might get a phone. I will text, call and play games like Duck Life: Treasure Hunt and I would play Cars vs. cars. Transformers and Avengers. Like Scott.

On his sister:
My sister lies and gets in trouble a lot. She loses responsibility points and gets consequences a lot. She loves me a lot and cares about me. I know that because ever since I was a baby, she loved me. But when I was a baby she used to step on me and hurt me. So she cares about me and loves me and gets in trouble a lot. The end.

On his future:
My future is going to be like awesome. Good, sometimes bad. I might argue in the future. I want to be a fighter-fighter and a police with my Dad. It would be cool to be a fighter-fighter because you can save people and spray out fires. It’s cool to be police because you get to carry a gun and a walkie-talkie. They get to carry a laser gun. I’m going to have a dog, a cat, a hamster and a donkey…..erase donkey…..I mean a horse, a cow and a chicken and a duck. I might have a wife and I might have kids but I’m scared that I’m gonna get in a lot of fights so maybe no wife or kids.

On getting adopted:
I want to get adopted so bad. I want all this to be over really badly but it needs to take 6 months or to do a lot more paperwork so that’s why I want to get adopted. It would make me happy and excited because we get to live with my parents forever and they get to be my parents forever.

On his favorite family tradition:
My favorite to-do is going on vacations, going on trips, playing a lot of board games, playing “middle in the monkey”, and seeing new people that we don’t know and seeing Grandma, Papa, Becky, Gary, Mike, Patti, Dennis and Lori. I like playing Sorry! and Dominoes. I like Apples to Apples because you get to play with 3 people and you get to try and choose cards with what the card says. Scott doesn’t like us to play with us because he says we don’t make sense and he never wins the green cards. He helps me learn good sportsmanship. When I win, I say “nice try.” When they win, I say “good game.”

Typed by WB:
my fafrit coire is red. myfafrit food  is macandcees and pesouz.my fafrit game is avegrs.myfafrit move is big hroe 6 andspas jam.and trasformrs.Love wondr boy.

*This post brought to you by a calm Sunday afternoon and bribes of jelly beans for each answer. We can’t believe this little cuddly nugget we welcomed into our home as a 5 year old is about to turn 8 and be a sincere and affectionate little man! Translated typing from above paragraph: My favorite color is red. My favorite food is mac and cheese and pizza. My favorite game is Avengers. My favorite movie is Big Hero 6 and Space Jam. And transformers. Love, WonderBOY*

And just because it’s cute – a glimpse of his “notes” from church this morning:

Wonders take over the blog….

WG and WB have been very interested in the blog and what I’m writing about them specifically….today, they wanted a chance to publish their own random musings so here ya have it.

IMG_2847WonderGIRL says….
Okay, so what I was saying earlier was that Cat Valentine has this blog, it’s a slap, it’s a video where she just talks and talks and talks about random things. I haven’t seen them but we watched one on her computer and she talked about kittens and ya.

Ummm….hey can we go to the trampoline zone today? Ugghhh. You actually wrote that? What else can I talk about? Normally my brain just comes up with things and then I talk fast. Marco Murrey quit from his other team the Cowboys and he switched to the Philidelphia Eagles and it’s kinda sad because (WB interrupts: he misses his friends) he worries that his friends don’t appreciate him but I think it’s a good thing so he can have different experiences.

I’m full of attitude, full of joy, and trying to get everyone to have fun. (WB: and you’re fear and you’re disgust, quoting from Inside Out, one of our fave movies).

IMG_2846-0WonderBOY says….
What should I talk about? I’m going to do what I do in Science. My name is _____ and I don’t like it when my sister doesn’t share but I do. When we argue a lot, Scott doesn’t like it. We like football, basketball, and Seahawks.

I want to be a “fighterfighter” when I grow up and I will work at Scott’s station. I will have a wife, a dog, and me, and a baby but I don’t know how much babies we will have. And a cat. And I really want to explore in our little forest thing and our trail. That Jake and BJ sometimes don’t like each other when they fight.

You always say to me, “get your pajamas on, go to bed, and close your eyes. Oh and you’re so lucky to be my mama.” (prompt that we talk about feelings on our blog) You feel sad when I’m mad at you. Now I’m going to go play catch in the hallway. The end.