Funny

I love to laugh! I am not a crier...God just didn't make me all that emotional. I just never cry...I am just very logical about most situations and rationalize it away. No crying needed! Back in the states I would say I cried...hmmm...hardly ever. But here...ah!! The tears flow on a daily basis. Some are good tears but most are a mommas heart crying... kids don't have warm beds and mommas reading them bed time stories, walking home in the dark to an empty house, girls with no dads to hug them, boys don't have a dads to wrestle with....oh yeah this is going to be funny!

So...I have decided to relive some of the funny moments we have had so far and have a good laugh. I'm trying to replace the tears with laughter today. Please join me...

Upon arriving in Zambia we displaced most of the Lifesong staff. Sheila let us have her house and KG let Sheila have her bed and KG moved into sleep with Shane and Mitzi...so the dominos fell. But only for a week or so...or weeks and weeks that turned into a month...HA!! So every day was something else...finally we were getting close to moving in so we decided to start cleaning up the house for move in day and we found critters...bats, black mambas, spiders and well that rat...I am still laughing! Enjoy...

Then there was the week of crazy car madness. At the time there were 5 family units living here using 3 cars and a work truck. First off the Canter (Robert's work truck for the construction site) bit the dust... the very next day the van (the McB's car) joined the canter in the dust...the very next day...the RAV bit it as well and Mitzi and Sheila ate a little dust too pushing that baby uphill in the african heat on the busiest hwy in all of Zambia.

The weird thing is all those cars are currently still running...well kinda...

So the laughter continued...how about Robert highlighting my hair for the very first time? Yes he did! Not only was he so serious and intentional that he took so long the bleach was was making me a serious blondie! It was time to get that stuff off my head. BUT THE WATER WAS OUT! Yes it was. Right when we needed it. So I am panicking...and Robert grabs the huge 10 gallon water jug off the water dispenser and comes running. As I am kneeling over the tub he is pouring gobs of water into my ears, over my face, back into the other ear...we were laughing so hard! So I am a little blonder than normal these days...But hey! Blondes have more fun right??

Okay...how about another...I think I could go on for days...so off to the grocery store we go in that van that bit the dusts weeks before. After loading our groceries in the back we take off for home. On that same hwy in Zambia... the back hatch of the van flies open as we are driving and out go all the groceries onto the busiest road in the country...Thank goodness we had kids with us. They sprang like Jack in the Box and had those groceries loaded and back in the car in no time...the bread was a little dusty but edible...

   

   

Then there was the wedding. How I wish I had the video for this one...The McB's sprang for their gardners wedding in their front yard. There were 100's of people and music and dancing...It was a festive affair...and as the wedding gifts were being danced down the center isle...yes I said danced down the center isle. Everyone needs to enjoy a Zambian wedding in their life time! As I was saying...we were all standing near the back as the china hutch went a dancing down the isle...Shane noticed a large metal piece rolling off the top of the hutch and he took off like Hussain Bolt to save some poor soul from getting whacked in the head...but to no avail...Shane's feet found a couple of rocks in the path and he went from Bolt to slow motion...after about 15 feet he went headfirst into the arch way to the entrance of the center isle and almost toppled the whole thing... after picking himself up off the ground we were not too kind...I don't know if I have ever laughed harder...and we are still laughing...sorry Shane! 

And then there is the visit to the Market with Kristie and Mitzi...we decided to head to the inner bowels of the market to find some great deals...Only to find a very drunk man whom Kristie ducked and missed and I saw a little too late...As I was trying to avoid stepping into the mushy mucky mud I looked up...not in time...as I tried to roll away the man kissed me on the cheek...lovely, lovely smell as well...and we are still laughing...

And the futbol games...such fun!! Zambians really do know how to enjoy life...

Well I could go on and on but this has gotten too long. So as you laugh with us remember to pray for us. This is no easy task. Just living here is much harder than we thought even with all the hilarity. Thinking cross culturally is even harder and living it out is almost impossible but for the grace of God! 

But today is our miracle day...

because God let's us laugh in this life. Because he is not done with us yet!