Babies, babies and more babies!

Leta this blog is for you. Twenty-seven babies! We held, rocked, played with and loved on every one of them. I thought of you the entire 3 hours. Most of them had stories that would curl your hair. Hope’s parents tried to sacrifice her to the gods. They said she had not been eating and wasn’t putting on any weight, and just now had started eating a little. Moses was the first baby to come to the Bulrushes. We got to play with him and meet his two name sakes, Moses Jr. (they were dressed alike) and Dr. Moses. He got his name because he had been in the hospital. His mom tried to kill him and he came in with many broken ribs and a broken arm. Jerome was abandoned at a local hospital and has cerebral palsy. Kevin was blind but otherwise healthy. Those are just a few of the stories. I know what a downer this sounds like, but you had to be there. There were so many smiles and happy faces and full tummies – the only downer was thinking about where they would have been if they hadn’t been brought to the Bulrushes.

After the best baby fix I have ever had, we proceeded on to Subbi Village where we built our first house. Wow, were we ever mobbed by kids, many of whom we remembered. We met 5 of the girls who are living in our house and the house mom. The other 3 girls are on tour in the Midwest. We visited and brought gifts to several sponsored children and moms and got great pictures for all you wonderful sponsors. Leta, Fred asked us to wait until he went in and changed before we took his picture for you. You can dry your eyes later.

A local craft village was our next stop and by the number of packages I saw being carried back on the bus, any of you who are expecting gifts will not be disappointed.

Written by Andi Schomaker