A Snowy Day!

Thursday morning we woke up to snow so back to bed for a couple more hours. Esteban can't paint in the snow. After a hearty breakfast that consisted of home made waffles with syrup, milk for the kids, and baccon and coffee for daddy, we all decided to ride along with daddy to the library and drop off some books and the Swiss Family Robinson movie. Well, we never made it to the library. Our van started to make a loud funny noise right before we got to the library. We decided that we better skip the library for now and go (crawl) to Esteban's brother's house in town. Esteban didn't know what was wrong so he didn't want to take the chance and pull off and check it for fear that it wouldn't start again. We got stuck at the railroad crossing ( for what seemed like forever) praying that the van wouldn't cut off and that we would be able to make the last 3 minute drive in a 15 minute drive. Well, we finally made it and Luis took Esteban back to our house to get the tools that we should have left in the van, but decided to take them out. Anyhow even if they were in the van, Esteban still would've had to go home because the wrench that he needed was in the new tool box he got for Christmas. Hey, at least he got to put them to use, right? He decided that he better bring them all just in case so he wouldn't have to make more trips home. He went and bought the "wrong" part after he picked up the tools and came back to his brother's house to fix the van. Luis dropped him off and went to buy Tylenol for his baby girl since she wasn't feeling good. While he was doing that, Esteban took the part off the car and found out that he bought the wrong part so he called his brother. Then had to wait till he got back home to go and get the right part. After he got the right part it was time to eat a Mexican meal that was fixed by his "gringa" wife and his "Mexican" niece. Letty wasn't feeling good either, and was trying to take care of her baby. We think that she either had a bladder or kidney infection. We said that the meal was "half-n half" gringa and Mexican. We fixed rice and memelas. Everything was homemade except for the beans. Luis bought them already refried. Letty said that the Lord let our van break down that way we could help her. Well, I don't know about that.:) Anyhow we were there and I helped her some. Esteban had the van fixed around 7:00pm and after it was fixed everyone was hungry again so I fixed pancakes for the kids and heated up the rice and the beans and some ham that Letty had frozen and made more tortillas. Before supper, Luis had their 3 older children straighten up the house and I cleaned the one bathroom. The baby was still fussy later so I called the doctor's office after hour number and the Secretary had the on-call nurse call me and I would talk to Letty and the nurse in English and Esteban interpreted into Spanish. They had to take Elizabet to the doctor today. We finally left sometime after 9:00 pm. Oh, I forgot to tell you that their pastor came over to check on the baby and he anointed her and prayed for her. I thought that it was interesting that all the adults that were there (not us) put oil on their hands just in case that they wanted to touch the baby also when the pastor prayed for her. They're pentecostal, but the pastor doesn't believe in speaking in tongues unless you have an interpreter and won't let you speak in tongues at his church unless you can have someone interpret for you. He seems to be a really good pastor, better than the other ones they've had. He has a very kind heart and he loves his people. When we got home our "babies" were half a sleep so Esteban carried them in and I fixed their beds and tucked them in for the night. Finally, I went to bed. Today, I had to go make the house payment and go to the bank and take back the "wrong"part my husband bought. I stopped at walmart and came home and my husband was home from work. It was too cloudy and foggy for them to paint and it doesn't look like they will be able to go in later either. So he decided to work on the yard and clean up some brush that we've started to clear away last fall. Well, I hope that each one of you have a wonderful afternoon whether it may be sunny, snowy,foggy, cloudy, or rainy. You get the picture. Have a wonderful afternoon and may our Lord bless you.
Cindy