I’m not much in the mood to blog tonight, but here goes.

Last night turned out to be nice. One of the families staying here needed help with their kids, so I volunteered. They have the mom and sixteen year old twins here along with their two new Ethiopian children who are 3 and 6 years old. The mom had to go to the airport last night to get her husband, who was joining them for the second week of their stay, and didn’t want to take the kids.

It was their first night in this hotel, so she wanted me to help the older girls get dinner ordered, get the kids fed, etc. Their two new kiddos were going bonkers in the hotel room at first…pushing buttons, flipping switches, jumping on beds…total chaos! But we got them settled down and fed, and Belane had a ton of fun having kids to play with. She ran and laughed and played SO hard. She fell asleep within minutes after we came back to our room.

Ever better than getting to play, was that I got to talk to Josh and some of the kids on the phone once we got back to our room. They sounded really good and I was feeling a lot better when I went to bed last night. I don’t think I say it enough on here… I love Josh so very much. He is truly my best friend and my other half…he completes me.

I awoke to Belane leaning over me and giving me kisses…I am not kidding when I say she is a total sweetheart. She is still doing great…I am trying not to be overly concerned that her cough isn’t going away…she is still full of energy and not acting like she feels badly, so I am hoping it is just a lingering cold.

The girl is ready to be in America...tonight she chose pizza over injera.

I tried not to obsess about the waiver all day, but I failed miserably. I keep thinking about all the things I need to get done back home and how badly I miss Josh and the kids, and how expensive it is to stay here, and how sick I am of this hotel room…

It is expensive to eat here, but to go out involves a taxi each way and it doesn’t end up being any cheaper. Plus being on my own I just don’t feel like going anywhere.

We do have Belane’s “going away” party tomorrow at AHOPE. It is also for her friend Yonas, who is also finally going home (via an escort). Ben’s farewell party was a lot of fun, but it was hard to see the kids who got sad that they weren’t the ones going. However all of those kids had families, and we knew that their turns were coming.

Tomorrow at AHOPE I know it will be a different feeling, as many of the kids there may never get their turn for a going away party. I have heard that these parties are tough on the kids there, but the nannies really wanted to have one, so that is the plan. I will definitely write about it…hopefully Belane will have fun and not be too nervous going back to AHOPE.

Well, I am off to bed. Tomorrow’s another day…