Finally Home

Well I made it through another week. I celebrated the 15 & 16 of September here, and it was a blast. Tuesday night we had a carnival for our kids. Where they played games, ate tostados, and danced to music. We all had a great night and our kids were well behaved. Each day I am here, I am learning more and more how to be a mother to these children. After having to deal with Josuè our dear child who is always the last for EVERYTHING, his homework is always copied wrong, he is a year behind in school, and for some reason he is just not getting it. Elizabeth even wrote in detail everything he has to do in his dorm, but he still does not understand. We have been trying to work very hard with him. But he is not doing his work at all, I even sat down with him to teach him math one on one, but he cannot seem to understand how things work in Casa Hogar. Elizabeth and I had to discipline him the only way we knew how, and I swear it was one of the hardest things to do. It made me not want to have kids for a long time to know that I made a child cry through discipline. I do not know how my father raised 5 kids. Because I don`t want to have to discipline them, but I know that it is necessary.

Then an hour later our kids who we thought were asleep we found 3 in a bed with a nightstand on top and they were trying to change the light bulb. Again we had to discipline, and it was not fun. But the good thing is I have the support of Elizabeth, and as this week has gone on we have learned the importance of discipline, and it is getting easier. But I now know how much I do not want kids of my own for a long time.

This experience is still the best decision I could have made. Although this is my "job" to take care of all these kids, I do not see it as a job. It is just a part of my life, and I enjoy every moment here in Mexico, even thought it seems like everything is more difficult to do, it is still the be decision I could have made here. I am happy to have allowed God really guide me to where I am in my life, because nothing has been this easy for me. I just allowed him to take over, and my life here is as perfect as it can get. I am finally HOME.