Cradle of Love Baby Home

After a wonderful 11 weeks in the States I am now back at CoL. Today is the second day and I am feeling the effects of jet-lag-not so much the sleepiness, but my emotions are fragile! Culture shock all over again–never ceases. Trying to get my passion back for this mission and feeling very inadequate.

Shae, Renate and Tanja–thank you so much for allowing me to have this holiday and keeping things going so well at Cradle! Of course my Tanzanian staff , as well!

Here are a couple photos of the babies with the new blankets made by a children’s church group in Tennessee.

I will write more when my brain catches up with my body!!

Our little chipmunk toothed, Lowasa, has gone back to his birth family. It is so nice to see them reunited! (picture to follow I hope)

They will bring him back in 3 months so that we can see how he is progressing.

We received a call to take another baby the other day and now we have space to do so.

I am down to 11 more sleeps until I return to Tanzania. I will be spending my last night with former volunteer Heath, who adopted Neema. They live closer to the airport and as it is an early flight, she will take the two little girls and I to our plane. My teen girls leave two days earlier to fly to Nairobi to school.

It’s been a wonderful summer, but it is now time to get back to work, meeting the new babies and volunteers, and embracing my husband and son!

This has been “in the works” since before I left in June, but a couple weekends ago, Rosie went home with her new dad, Jonathan and mom, Rehema. I have heard from them that she is doing well and is delightful!

What a joy to see a new family formed through adoption!

Rosie’s uncle, and new mom and dad!

A Sabbath School class of 5 and 6 year olds from Cleveland, TN, made our babies some lovely, snuggly warm, fleece blankets.

Yesterday, July 31st, some of the children and parents came to my house in TN and delivered them. One little girl had thought she was coming TO the baby home, so was disappointed to find there were no babies here.

It was brought to my attention that I have not made a public thank you to a specific church in Austalia. I did write to them personally, but since some of their members read this blog, I want to say it again! THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to the large donation. We will be able to put the roof on the new administration house on my return to Tanzania in August.

God’s timing with the funds was perfect. I received them the last working day before I left on annual leave so we were able to pay bills that we accrued on the construction and I could leave with things in financial order. It was such a blessing.

Look for updates here.