My interesting life as a mother

God certainly keeps my life interesting. Some day, perhaps I'll write about it! Ha! I already do - but perhaps in more detail later on. Maybe when I have time. :)

Just a tiny update for now - just got the youngest duckling to her out-of-state college for her senior year. How did that happen? I wonder. Not the getting her there part, but rather, her getting to this point in life--already! 

My hubby is home from the hospital after major surgery. I am his nurse. :) Well, the "real" nurse visits as well as the physical therapist. I'm doing my writing in between his care.

Another daughter whom I mentioned in another http://donnamarieembracingmotherhood.blogspot.com/2012/08/my-daughter-is-leaving-for-thailand.html post just went abroad to volunteer in a remote region. She's been gone about ten days so far and will be away for about six months. God bless her heart. She is a brave young woman. She experienced an "eye lock" with Blessed Mother Teresa twenty-five-years ago. I'm loving watching how her life unfolds in ministry to others.

Today, on the Missionaries of Charity Inspiration day (a special day commemorating Blessed Mother Teresa’s “call within a call” from Jesus to take care of the poorest of the poor), my daughter wrote a long email update to our family. I'll share just a little. She described a meal she ate and said: 

They made lunch. it's Palaung food (their ethnic group in burma from the north near china). I have to say, ive never had anything like it. it was rice and some  twig-like stuff. while i was eating it i thought, wow, this sort of tastes like twigs and leaves. and then i asked what it was and they said "some twigs from the forest in burma" so i guess i was right. it was really spicy so i sort of awkwardly sat there wiping my nose and eyes the whole time and tried not to choke. 

 She also said,

i bought some things for my apartment yesterday. sugar, corn flakes, a rice cooker, soy milk. forgot toilet paper. my bathroom at home doesnt have a flusher. you basically dump water in the toilet and somehow it sort of flushes. at work its a hole in the ground outside. i have to be careful not to have the swarm of mosquitos bite my butt and give me malaria. lots of obstacles here.

This video is of a local market.

I'm not sure whether I should laugh or be worried. But, seriously, I try not to ever worry and I do keep a constant prayer vigil going for her and for all of the "kids." Trust me, Jesus, Mary, and the saints in heaven hear from me constantly.