picture thanks to Couttney!
This is my family. What is family? What do you call family? The dictionary says this.
a. A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.
b. Two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term commitments to one another, and reside usually in the same dwelling place.
2. All the members of a household under one roof.
3. A group of persons sharing common ancestry.
Well I agree that these are all correct answers but I think family can mean much more. For me family is not necesarily the ones you come from, the same color, the same language, the same background....family is those you love. For me I have a great family, a huge family, a diverse family. I recently had to leave my "new" family to help my "old" family. It was the hardest thing I have done in life. I just left Peru on a minutes notice to come back to the states to help my mother who was in the hospital with my father, we weren't sure he would make it. I can gladly say he is alive and doing well! God is not through with him yet, and I am so thankful!
Sunday and Monday I was ripped from my family in Peru. I felt like someone was tearing my guts out of my body, stretching my limbs from one side of the room to the next. My head was pounding, my legs went limp, my eyeballs turned into waterfalls. Never-ending waterfalls. I hurridly packed my things up. Left a mountain of my things in my room, and cried as I spent the last few hours with my family, playing, singing, dancing, cooking, cleaning, and enjoying one another's company. I had the sweetest crieyest despedida in the world.
I have been in the states helping my family and as I am here I am terribly homesick. I am homesick for that once called foreign land and language, my children, my tia's and tio's, my sisters, and my mothers. I am homesick for rich peruvian food, dry desert land, loads of laundry washing, and much more. I am homesick for my family. I have succesfully cried my eyes out since I have left and writing this is very hard. I pray that God is not finished with me over there. That I will get to be reunited with my family again.
For now I have to deal with that change and get to see what God has in store for me here in this land.
-Praying for change over here!
Becca, me, and Courtney
Miller school singing a song to me and spelling out we love you.
The Tesoros (aldiar and samir) doing a rap song
One of the sweetest moments- Junior holding me and sobbing. I will miss this dear one.
