1 Week and Cockroach Free!

OK so last Saturday (not yesterday but a week ago) we had just returned to our place right after dark. And of course you know what that means all things ugly and creepy are out and about. We have two gates to get to our front door and it was between the first and the second where my tale takes place. Our friends park their car in our driveway and from time to time we borrow it. It was just as we were climbing out of their vehicle that my story takes place. First, we noticed the almost hissing sound right under us, but it wasn't quite a snake hiss and then the sensory light illuminated the area around our feet to expose about 30 large cockroaches scrambling to be hidden from the light. Did I mention I was wearing crocks ...the kind with holes all over them! As loud as a woman as I can be I was silent with disgust and fear. It was then that we noticed that they were all scurrying into the small tree in the front of our yard.  This tree is also right in front of the kids bedroom windows and would explain why that is where we mostly find these ugly ugly alien looking creatures. After the kids and I were in the house Andrew, my knight in shinning armour, took a can of raid (or the Spanish version of it)  to spray the entire contents of the can on what we  think was their nest. We woke up Sunday morning before church to see a line of dead, or still slowly moving almost dead, cockroaches that were sprinkled on the ground from the gate to our front door step. We have since paid to have a company that specialises in pet control come over and spray our home. Can I say I am so relieved. Apparently when he lifted a cement step in the back yard he was met by a colony of cockroaches that ran and scattered into the daylight of our yard.
So there you have it 1 week and we are still cockroach free! We are used to finding that ugly free loafer in the house at least every other day.

 

Sam was the designated photo-man in the morning to help us capture this magical memory.

This is a picture of the tree in our yard that offered a place of safety and darkness to our unwanted house guests for 6 months!

Catch ya later ugly buggie!

Yummy Guacamole!!

Ingredients:
2 ripe avocades, peeled and chopped
1 small tomato, skinned and chopped tiny tiny
juice of 1 lemon or lime
1/2 chopped onion tiny tiny
1/2 teaspoon salt
a dash of Tabasco
celantro (even though Andrew doesn't like it but when he can't see it he sure does like it)
I brought my small no name food chopper from Canada and it chops everything in seconds.
if you want add a tiny bit of your favorite spice chilli

You can eat with celary sticks, carrots, craxker and yes of course corn tortillas.

if you omit to avacodas and add green pepers it is called Chimchury.

Change.....

You know I wonder if change ever becomes something we don't think about and just do.

This past 7 months has been amazing for language learning, growth
as individuals and as a family. We have seen Sam grow in his understanding of who God is and how he can trust God even if it means leaving his friends is Abbotsford. And of course his family.
This may sound premature but I can already feel the winds of change approaching. I was at the Farmacia yesterday (I think we keep the dear little shop in business) and I was thinking how comfortable it has all become. How nice it is to see their familiar faces each week and be able to humiliate myself (not that I care) and speak my Spanish to them. And then the thought hit me.... Another 5 months and it will be a new Farmacia, a new city , a new country. I will admit the pity part began for a few hours. And a hundred thoughts ran through my mind. How would the children adapt to another school? Would Sam forgive me for taking him away from his new found best est friend Garret? Would the next house have less or more bugs? And then two things happened. I had lunch with a friend and she reminded me that I am not enjoying the gifts God has given me if I begin to step back and prepare my heart for the inevitable tearing off of the metaphorical band aid. And then it hit me. Do I trust Him with my family? Do I trust Him with the kids education? Do I trust Him with my heart and with the leaving of our new amazing friends? Friends that get our situation with out us having to explain where we are at with long detailed stories?
 And then I heard deep inside that song from Matt Redmond. And I remembered the truth. Yes God is good, only He is trustworthy. I can trust Him with our kids here and with our parents far from us. It is about the journey and I am so excited to be "on this journey". I know all our journeys look very different, but my prayer for all of us is that we would follow God where ever He leads us, be it s different job, a heart adjustment, eyes to see those near us in need of our compassion. If you hear Him calling you to step out of your norm, don't be scared, He is a Good God, He is trust worthy and He will give you what you need to get to where He is calling you.
I leave you with the words to Matt's song.
All my love,
Claudia