Friends and Goodbyes.

This week has been busy, well the past FEW weeks have been busy. One of our friends, a young girl Jessica is going to be leaving St. Lucia at the end of this month. She wants to give her entire life to God by becoming a sister. She will be going to Jamaica to join Fr. Ho Lung's Missionaries of the Poor sisters. Needless to say I'm going to miss her. She has been such a blessing in the whole family. My little sisters adore her and scream her name when ever she comes over, covering her with hugs. She has also been a good witness to my sisters and I, especially the three of my sisters who are praying about Religious Life. Jessica has been trying to raise money to go, but its going to cost a lot. She told us a beautiful story that happened while she was at mass. She felt like God was asking her to do a special devotion to him, God says that when you say this devotion many graces and blessing will be poured out open the person. She agreed to say and did it, after mass a lady she did not know came up to her and told her that she had heard Jessica wanted to go to Jamaica. Then the lady asked her how much it would cost. Jessica told her and the lady then said she would pay for the entire ticket! We all praised God to hear about how he cares for the people he loves.

One of the other things that we are doing to help Jessica is with our Youth Group. We are putting on a production with little skits and music, we are going to ask people to donate money.

The other reason why this week has been busy is that my brother Peter was complaining of stomach pains. We soon guessed that it was his appendix. One of the sisters here, Sister Rosemary is studying to be a doctor. We asked her to come look at him and she confirmed our guess. My parents took him to the hospital where his appendix was removed. He spent two and a half days there before he was able to come home. He is now on the mend. We praise God that nothing bad happened and that the surgery went well.

God blesses his children in so many ways, He is so good to us.

Blessings,

Abi

Siblings names and ages. :)

So one of my followers asked about names and ages of my siblings, since she was getting confused. I don't blame her I get confused to! :) Okay so after me is:

Ellie age 14, she has her own blog right here.

Mia age 12 (almost 13!)

Peter age 11

Esther age 9 (she's almost 10)

Rachel age 8

Anne age 5 (going to be 6!)

Bridget age 4

Rebecka (Chiara) age 2

and little Issac age 9 months. There ya go!

Service

As I'm sitting here, doing school. I watch as my sister Esther gently spoons hot tea to Rachel. Praise God Rachel slept all night. She is still feeling sick, but I think she is on the mend. The sickness is a bit strange. High fever and headache and a feeling of being very weak. Esther has been an absolute angle to Rachel, reading to her, giving her tea and making her comfortable. I could certainly learn a thing or two from her!
I have to do a picture post!
Blessings,
Abi

You know that you've been to Mexico when...

When you little sister, age 2, is singing worship songs in Spanish. Granted that she doesn't know all the words, nor I dare say the meaning. But its still cute. :)

Say cheese!

This is Kathrine and Chiara! Kathrine was trying to make her put on shoes, and say cheese.

All those kids

So I said I would put the names of my siblings on so here they are.(these are not their real names)

Lizzy: That would be me, the eldest.

Marianne:From Sense and Sensibility, need I say more?

Ilse: From the Emily series written by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Frodo: The only boy in our family!

Amy: From Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.

Gauri:From the movie Lagaan.

Gita:From the Bollywood movie Swades.

Beth:Also from Little Women.

Chiara: The baby, her name is Italian for Clare.

And I made it to the end,it was kind of hard to think of names for all. Thankfully I let the older ones chose theirs.

My Amazing Sister

My baby sister Chiara(that is Italian for Clare) learns words amazingly fast. She knows Mama, Dada, doll, ball, Danielle, Papa, and today she said cat and blear which means bear. We think she will be saying whole sentences before she is 1!

Here is a cute video of her talking.