Monday 2/13: Elwoods, Carls and Neil’s left at 4:30 this morning for India. They took CNGs to the airport so that Jared didn’t have to get up at an unearthly hour to shuttle them all the to the airport. They are going to check out some of the posts there. Spent the morning doing much laundry from our fun week. Realized this morning how much Layton has grown and got out his size 6 shorts and size 5-6 shirts. His 4T shorts were well above his knees. Kinda looked more like boxers than shorts.😂 Not that it matters here! He said “I feel so grown up in my new clothes!” Was glad I had some leftovers in the freezer for lunch. Sumita came to clean. Jared spent the morning doing computer work and then Jared and Jon went to the bank to pay taxes. The rest of the day we just rested and prepared for the coming week.
Tuesday 2/14: Jared had clinic this morning. Next week he will start doing it three days a week instead of just two. A lady came in asking for financial help and provided memos of her medical bills. If they can’t show a memo they don’t get any help. When Jared gave her some money she said “Thank you!” Usually they think it’s never enough but this lady was so grateful he wished he could have given her more. Kinda refreshing! Layton has been looking forward to Valentine’s Day for weeks now. He’s been adamant that we make a chocolate cake with Nutella frosting. Not sure where he got this idea, but we whipped up some chocolate cupcakes and frosted them with Nutella, made a pizza and got some pomegranates. (Our favorite fruit here). Needless to say my boys (and me too) were very thrilled to sit down to that lunch! Layton said “mom you are a good cook but for sure on Valentine’s Day!” Now he is already wanting to make “cupcakes with something spooky on top for Halloween”😂 This evening we had singing at the clinic. Nurse Miriam, Josna’s sister and then another lady came, so we had a good sized group. Jared lets them decide how long we sing. Usually after 20-30 minutes they are done but tonight we sang for an hour! They were full of laughter and were joking with each other. We could understand some of what they were saying so it made it funny for us too! Afterwards we went to Parktown for supper. It’s a 10 minute rickshaw ride from our house. Lots of ladies were wearing yellow or fancy SaRis. They must have been celebrating Valentines Day too!
Wednesday 2/15: Jared ran various errands this morning. He went to Farmgate to try and find a place to make keys but no luck. We know there has to be one around somewhere but finding it seems to be the trick. Needing more keys for the guesthouse. The language barrier makes things like this a bit tricky. Layton and I spent the morning digging through drawers and organizing some more areas in this apartment. Nesting has hit me in full swing. Jared told me I “was supposed to rest after revivals and not do much until the baby comes.”🫣😂 you would think after almost 10 years he would know I have a hard time doing “nothing.” and that I will always find something to rearrange or organize. 😂 Had lunch at the clinic with the ladies. Chicken curry… Miriam said Layton was a “Bengali babo” because of how much he ate. Later in the day we went to my dr appointment. Got a rickshaw like usual. 3/4 the way there the rickshaw driver veered off on a side street. Sometimes different drivers take different routes but not usually on the way to the hospital. They all take the same route. So we kept on and it soon became evident that he was lost as can be. Jared tried to tell him where to go but he just kept on going, eventually he ended up down the street aways from Square Hospital. Then on the way home Jared told that rickshaw driver to take us to “ec number gate, Monipuripara”. Well this gentleman went past ec number gate and all the way to our apartment. I have no idea how he knew where we lived. Jared didn’t know him either. So one extreme to the other!😂 While we were at my appointment we asked if we could have a tour of the OB ward. It was all very clean and orderly. We had to change into hospital shoes to walk around in there.
Thursday 2/16: Jared set out on another key making expedition this morning. He went to KaWran Bazaar and this time he was successful and got keys made for the gate and the guesthouse door. Layton entertained himself and I just rested (orders from “Dhaka boss”😂) In the afternoon Neil’s and Carls flew into Dhaka from India. Their flights back to the states left in a few hours so they decided to just stay at the airport. Jared took the rest of their luggage to the airport since they hadn’t wanted to haul it all to India. In the afternoon I did some baking and cooking for the freezer for after the baby is born.
Friday 2/17: Church today… Jared’s inspiration was on “the sower and the seeds.” Samir from Kulna was in Dhaka for business so he came to our service. He is such a likeable chap. Speaks good English… We did our usual grocery run in the afternoon. Glad we could go today because the next few days there’s supposed to be a lot of political rally’s on the streets. When we were stopped in traffic at one point we noticed one of the butcher shops had at least 30 goats up on the roof. It was probably a 3 story building. No fence or railing or anything! Looked like they might have been tied to something maybe? The rest of the day was quiet and relaxing! A bit too relaxing for Layton’s liking.
Saturday 2/18: Sumita came to clean and Lucky came to cook. I don’t always know what to do when they are both here at the same time. Lucky takes up the whole kitchen with all the yummy dishes she makes so I can’t really be in there and Sumita is busy sweeping and mopping so we kinda play “dodge the wet floor” room by room! I’m very very thankful they both come though. I ended up doing some laundry and then taking Layton outside to ride bike to stay out of their way. If he goes a whole day without riding bike the guards wonder when he will ride bike again. I think they enjoy watching him! The minute we drove through the gate when we got home from Golpagonge last week the guard said “babo cycle khelbo?” (Will the child ride bicycle?)😀 Layton and I went and looked at the fish seller outside our gate and all his big metal bowls of fish swimming around. Every morning a vegetable man, chicken man and fish man come and park their wares outside our gate and sit there all morning. They usually leave with empty bowls and empty carts. The street cats and dogs are never far away in hopes of a tasty morsel from the slaughtering of the creatures! Found an old pair of roller skates in the storage room so Layton kept himself entertained for awhile with those. I puttered around the rest of the day doing some things for when the baby comes and such like.
Sunday 2/19: Jared had clinic this morning. Said it went really well. Had quite a few cleft lip babies. Sometimes it’s mostly women needing vitamins or meds or lab work… Layton and I ran some errands this morning. Made him walk the whole way to try and get some of his energy wore off. In the evening we all went up to the roof and Jared grilled a bunch of chicken for me to put in the freezer. His paperwork and computer work has slowed down for abit so that’s been nice. It’s definitely starting to warm up here! Put away our quilts and fuzzy blankets. Won’t need them until November or so… It’s supposed to start raining in March. Everything is just coated in layers of dust and grime. The trees in our courtyard are grey/brown from all the dust. Underneath it all they are still green! Even in the house, it’s crazy how dusty and gritty everything gets.
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