Wednesday, November 28, 2007

a United Nations Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!  (a week late)
 
I hope that you all had a wonderful time of fun and eating with family and friends, and that all of your travels were safe and uneventful!  :-)  Thanksgiving here was a huge blessing for me and several other Americans that are here in Namibia.  We ended up being 5 Americans, 9 Canadians, 1 Brit, 1 Philippino, 2 Angolans, and 2 Namibians!  Talk about a United Nations Thanksgiving!  Though we weren't able to find any turkeys, we did have roast chickens, stuffing, mashed taters, broccoli salad, macaroni salad, spinach pie and cheese rolls.  The best part though was dessert... we actually had pumpkin pie!  Jessica bought the pumpkin and made the filling herself!  It was amazing!  :-)  
 
One of the things we did was go around and say what we are thankful for.  One of the things that we all had in common was something great that happened on Friday.  We are all very proud to announce that Rachel Grace Ndapewa is now officially Rachel Grace Ndapewa Greidanus!!!!  The Magistrate gave a favorable decision in favor of the adoption of Rachel!  Praise be to God!  Wahoo!!!  We couldn't be happier to celebrate this joyous occasion with Rob and Alisa!! 
 
In much sadder news, over the weekend I found out that my stop-mom, Robin, is back in the hospital.  She was flown to Seattle back to the specialists that she saw last time.  Apparently there are several things that are wrong.  One of the things is that the stents they placed in her pancreas had collapsed.  They did a procedure to reopen them, but there is still a large cyst on her pancreas that they are going to have to deal with...  This cyst is the biggest concern at this point in time.  If they can't deal with it properly, they might have to take part of the pancreas off.  If this is the case, then they think that she will only have a few years to live.  Please join me in prayer that the doctors will be successful in their treatment of this cyst and her other health problems. 
 
blessings,
kimmie
 
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