Today was the legal ceremony for Marjory and Joel. Their wedding ceremony will be on December 19. I am very sad that I will miss that special day while I am traveling to the states during the wedding; today was an honor for me to be at their legal ceremony.

The couple's families were present, along with two attorneys, and me and Alyshia.

Today's ceremony was held in their new home. Here are the tables that Alyshia and I set up this morning. It was all very pretty.




The centepieces we put together this morning. Alyshia's creations!



Marjory, Joel, their two witnesses, and the two attorneys.

After they were talked to about the responsibilities of marriage, they were asked the typical questions of do you want to have Marjory as your wife...etc...

Afterward it was time for everyone to sign the Certificate of Marriage.

Marjory's turn....

We had lunch and cake and many photos!

Marjory, Joel and the groom's brother, Freddy

The couple with Marjory's dad

Christmas Party!

I had a little Christmas party at my house yesterday.


If you have ever read my blog or seen a few posts on my Facebook you will have heard me talk about my boys, Gabriel and David. I love these two boys like sons. It still amazes me how God can take people and just put them in your heart in such a special way that you love them with all you have! I have many people in my life who are "family" without actually being family.


Well in Honduras it is no different!


Last week we had our last night of doing homework....it was David's last week of vacation school and he finished up his final Pace. So of course the boys wanted to know when they could come over and play...just play since I wouldn't be saying "get to work"...."do your homework"....


So we planned a day and I invited Henry to come too and hang out and play games with us.






They all came to my house....I made dinner...and I had some gifts for the boys.

I love these boys, and we do a lot of playing around....we all have a variety of nicknames.....and one of mine is Lemon. It happened one evening over homework when I was stressed about their work and not being happy, fun Stepha but more of the lecturing Stepha (or as Gabriel says ...you just abba dabba at me....) So when I am upset or getting onto them about something they say I am being a lemon....and it is really bad if I am being a sour lemon...stress on the sour! :)

Not everyone can call me Lemon or even Miss Lemon....but even with all the joking and nicknames and fun times we have they still respect me....one of them can push me to my limits sometimes...but isn't that what kids do!

So..... when the group was coming from church for graduation this year I asked for Lemonhead candies. Helen so sweetly brought me two boxes of Lemonheads and two boxes of Lemonhead and Friends....so that was part of their gifts last night.

Here is Gabriel with one of his boxes of candy! :) And no, last night I was not a Lemon! I was Honey last night....sweet and happy!

Besides the candy and cookies....I gave each of them a piece of fruit....for David a yellow apple, his favorite, and Gabriel a guava. That is what I keep stocked in my refrigerator during school so I always having something healthy for them to eat.

They also got some lemperas to buy Saldo for their cell phones (like buying minutes/text messages). They need all that Saldo for all the girls they need to text! ha ha!

After dinner we played Phase 10....and David brought his Nintendo Game Cube so we played Nintendo after Henry left for worship practice. It was a lot of fun! I am glad they think I'm fun too....last night after playing Nintendo with them, David told me Iwasn't a boring old lady! ha ha ha!

I love these kids! I miss my family and I miss Joshua....but God has blessed me abundantly with family here in Honduras!

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends in Honduras! Alyshia and I drove to Seguatapeque...not before first seeing a cow run into a truck! As we were heading out of town a little pick-up truck pulled in front of me going very slow. I was complaining about him....when suddenly from a side road here came a large cow.... with big horns.... he came running into the highway and headbutted the side of the pick-up truck in front of me! The truck's side mirror went flying off the truck, and he pulled off to the side to assess the damage. The way the cow hit, his head only caught the mirror so it looked like that was all the damage he had, but wow how much worse that could have been.

I immediately thanked God for protecting us, and prayed for us to have safe travels up the mountain to Seguatapeque.

Funny how I was first complaining about that little truck, but if it had not been for them I'd have been flying down the highway when that cow came running into the road and I'm sure it would have been more than a lost side mirror!

What I saw as an inconvenience interfering with my drive turned out to be life saving!

I wonder how many of those we each miss every day, not realizing what God has saved us from, or has put us in the right place at the right time for a blessing, or out of harm's way just in time and we never even see it.

God Thank you for all you do for me each and every day!

Reflecting on 2010!

Yesterday morning I sat outside on my balcony reading my Bible, thinking about this past year, and writing in my journal.

As I looked through my Bible I noticed that my Bible tells the story of each year I am in Honduras. The verses I have underlined I remember what was happening at that time, what struggles I was having, or what I was praying for, or what promises God was showing me.

Luke 9:23-24 "Then he said to them all: 'If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it."

Take up your cross daily. This was a constant theme for my year it seemed - not thinking about myself or what I wanted, but serving in the place I was. Sometimes that meant with the class of students that I had. I struggled a lot with some of these kids, and I wasn't always happy going to class....but every day I reminded myself that none of this was about me. It was about God and the job He had given me, and He had given me this class.

There were other times during this year - robberies, having my computer stolen, feeling lost and alone and separated from my family, that I would read this verse that I had hung on the wall of my bedroom. Many days I had to pray through this, for God to help me and remind me that it wasn't about me....but it was about following Him and directing these kids to Him.

Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."

I remember waking up one Sunday morning during a time where I just felt like things were in chaos, I had students behind, students who were acting out in class, other students who I worked with outside of class I was worrying about....so much going on and I woke up and God brought this verse to my mind. I had to just give it all to him....Be still and know that I am God....I couldn't do the things I was trying to do in my own power....that was another verse that ended up hanging on my wall....so I could read it every day before I walked out the door.

I had to do that many times this year... sit and be quiet and just know that God is God! And what comfort that gave me when I did that!

Isaiah 65:24 "Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear."

Jeremiah 29:12-14 after the famous Jeremiah 29:11... I know the plans I have for you...

v. 12 "Then they will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you."
v. 13 " you will seek me and find me when you seek me with your whole heart."
v. 14 "I will be found by you, declares the Lord......"

What awesome promises I found in this verses! Oh the prayers I have for Joshua and for my kids here!

Psalm 126: 5- 6 "Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy carrying sheaves with him."

Well I certainly did a lot of weeping - sometimes in sadness over the kids, sometimes with the kids because of hard times they were going through personally, sometimes just weeping because I have such a burden for them for what I want for them.

What an awesome promise that I will return with songs of joy!

Ecclesiastes 11: 1-6 I read these verses on August 8, 2010 - Oh it gave me such a lift! I was at a point where I was feeling like nothing I did mattered, nothing was making a difference in the lives of my students or any of the kids - But continue to sow! Do not give up!

"Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again. Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land. If clouds are full of water they pour rain upon the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie. Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in the mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well."

I read these verses about the same time I read Psalm 126:5-6 - I was really feeling like I was doing nothing - Maybe I am not seeing the results that I want - but I should and will continue!

It was that last verse of Ecclesiastes that really hit me - continue to sow every where, all the time, because you don't know where the fruit will come from...so just keep on keeping on!

In October, 2010 I read Psalm 127: 3-5 "Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them."

I only have one son, Joshua, and I am blessed so much to have him as my son! But also, as I read those verses I also began thinking of all my "kids" I have here. I don't believe God is only talking about natural children. There are many children that God has put in my heart! I love them, look after them, pray for them, like they were my own kids. How blessed am I to have Joshua and to be given the awesome responsibility of loving on so many more kids! I am blessed!

These are just some highlights...but some of the verses that stick out, meant the most to me this year, some days helped me just get through the day by remembering God's promises!

I am so proud of my son for being in the Army and I love him and pray for him every day! Some verses that God showed me shortly after he joined the Army have been a constant prayer of mine for Joshua, and as his assignment changes I know this will be my prayer for him daily!

Psalm 121 "I lift up my eyes to the hills - where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot slip - he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord watches over you - the Lord is your shade at your right hand; The sun will not harm you by day nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all harm - He will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore."

Today is the graduation of our Ruach students, the Preppa students will graduate to 1st grade, my 6th grade class will graduate into highschool, and our two seniors will graduate and be ready to move on to studying medicine. It is certainly a day to celebrate today! Celebrate all the students' accomplishments. I am so proud of them, each one, and excited to see what the future holds for them.

What a fun and exciting time this year was with Convention and International Student Convention getting to accompany the kids on that trip, and getting to know new students, getting to take weekend trips with highschool, and overcoming many hardships and trials and seeing God's hand in all of it!

Today the Preppa students will be doing a dance, choreographed by Miss Helen, to IF YOU'RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT....then my 6th grade class will be singing HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD....what an awesome end to the 2010 School Year!

Front of my home...yes it is purple! Here you can see my gate to my garage, and above is my balcony ... (although you can't tell it is purple when it is on the blog...sorry...but it is, lavender!)

The front of the house, front door....

Garage where I will park my car.

PILA!!! It wouldn't be home without it!

So the animals aren't right across the street...and they aren't coming up to my gate....but I can still see a horse now and then!

Taken from my balcony. This is also the view I see from my bedroom window when I wake up in the morning. I love it....because it looks like Honduras!


View from balcony!

Table on my balcony

My room!

My closet...with room for hanging clothes, and a section of shelves and drawers! Oh wow how I have missed you!!!




This is the door that leads out onto my balcony!

The ceiling upstairs...and the beautiful light fixture....this is how both bedrooms are too...

The landing half-way upstairs...

Living Room...

Dining Room

Cabinet moved .... refrigerator in!

Notice my "drawer" sitting on top of my refrigerator! ha ha!

My kitchen has no drawers!!!! So I put my silverware tray inside the cabinet...and all the kitchen gadgets and measuring cups and spoons, etc....are sitting on top of the refrigerator!

My Drawer ! Still working on a better plan...it will happen.

Kitchen....

Much better! Refrigerator IN the kitchen! They raised the cabinets to the ceiling so that the refrigerator would fit.

This is the sink in the small downstairs bathroom....I cannot stand up straight at the sink. ..the ceiling sort of slants, as it goes under the stairs.

I wasn't sure how I was going to make it all fit...the television was sitting where the kitchen table needed to go....Oh I had a lot of work to do!

Friday night when we moved everything, they had not yet raised the cabinets in the kitchen, so my refrigerator would not fit......

Good Morning blog friends!

I am sitting in the living room of my new home! I absolutely love it here. It is smaller, and it took a while to find a way to configure the living area. It is a small room that has been made into a living room and a little area with my kitchen table and a tinier kitchen.

The kitchen is so small we were not sure my refrigerator would fit. Actually at first it didn't, but the owner is so nice to have a carpenter come and lift the cabinet to the ceiling so that the refrigerator could go in under that cabinet.

I realized yesterday as I was putting things away in my kitchen that I have no drawers in my kitchen. Still a little stumped on what to do with my silverware, measuring cups and spoons, and all those little gadgets that go in a drawer. I am so happy here though, I will figure it out.

Honestly I can't find a thing I don't like.... although I also realized last night that I do not have a line for hanging my clothes. So today I need to do wash, and I am not sure where I will put everything to dry....so this week I will need to remedy that issue.

My bedroom....I could just live there! Honestly!

The view from one of my windows is just beautiful....it might not be beautiful to everyone....but I love it! I see all the houses lining the side of the mountain....it is just a picture of Honduras for me. And I LOVE it! And from my balcony you can see the beautiful mountain that you climb to get to Sequatapeque....I couldn't ask for a better view!

I have put a small plastic table outside on the balcony with a chair and have already enjoyed sitting out there reading my Bible.

Did I mention that I love my new home???

They should finish up some work they are doing outside today so that I can bring Samson over here. I hope he will like his new home....he is loosing his BIG yard, and he will now have a cement playground. I am thinking I need to buy him a sandbox to play in.

Every time I go to the old house to feed him, he runs to the front gate...I know he wants to come with me...and I will be so happy when he is here with me!

I am so very excited for Jim and Helen and Annette to get to Honduras so they can see my new home. I am blessed beyond words! I experienced loss when I was robbed both times this year, and lost many sentimental things as well....but God is blessing me so much all I can do is say Thank You! I continue to pray for the robbers that they will find true treasure and turn to God for their needs.

My new home....

When I was looking for a place, I knew that God knew where I would move. And I kept saying that I was willing to go where ever He had for me....but then I shared with Him the desires of my heart for my new home.

The biggest thing that I wanted was a two-story with a balcony. I love to go outside at night and see the stars and enjoy the beauty here...and I love to be outside in the day and see the beautiful blue sky and the beauty of the mountains all around us. When I am having a hard day or missing my family or just need a touch from God I love to experience the beauty of the country where I live.

Well this place is two stories with a balcony! Can you believe it!!! And the balcony comes off one of the bedrooms...of course that will be my room!

There are many things that are an upgrade for me from where I am living right now....

They have a water tank so I will always have water...no more days with no running water!

There is air conditioning....however I know how expensive it can be to run them, so I am thankful there are many many windows, but on those days where it is so hot and I am melting trying to dry my hair or put on my make up before it runs off my face....I can actually cool off with the AC.

And drawers.....yep you heard me...I will have drawers in my bedroom! WOW!!! I have not had drawers for over two years! My house I am in right now has closets, but with a place for hanging clothes and a section with shelves....which was a huge blessing because many places do not have closets....but I have no drawers for t-shirts, underclothes, etc.... So I am very excited about the "closet" in these bedrooms, with shelves and drawers and a place to hang your clothes!

Things in this home are newer than where I have been living...the bathrooms, the fixtures, all are newer and just a lot nicer....

All this led me to feeling guilty, and feeling that I should not be in such a nice place.
Why should I have a place that is so nice? Why should I have air conditioning, or closets with drawers, or have water all the time... WHY? I don't know why....I don't know why I get to live there, all I know is that is the home that God gave me!

Thank you God for all the blessings!

I will be moving next weekend to an apt. near Patty's house. Actually it is more like what we would call in the states a townhouse. It is two story, and it is considered an apt., but it isn't connected to the other apts. Which is good since I am loud and my kids who come to my house are loud! They are already worried about being too loud ....with our playing...and their music... and we can get a little crazy.....so it is good that I am on the end and have no shared walls with my neighbor! ha ha!

This weekend I have been packing up my house for the move.

I know I am ready to move and I know it is the right thing, I had felt that I was supposed to start looking for a place to move to before the robbery. So I know this is the right thing to do, but this house has so many memories for me and my students here!

Last year I had so many of my kids here doing homework during the week. And after school was out but we were still working to complete Paces so they could graduate 6th grade, we had school here every day for about 6 of my students.

My girls came here last year to bake cinammon rolls.

We had our futbol watching party here last year with my girls as the USA played Honduras in soccer.

My girls had a pajama party here.

And all the fun memories with the kids here....of food fights and water balloon fights...and the kids all just feeling comfortable here, and being at home here....

Memories with Marjorie here....sitting and talking about her wedding plans...and spending the night here because we stayed talking too late...

I hope that we can make all those same fun memories at my new place. And I pray they will all feel at home and comfortable there too.... I hope they know it's still me...it's still my home ...no matter where I sleep at night, they are all welcome there!

As I was looking for a place to move to I kept thinking that God knows where the place is...I know He had a place for me....but I am not always patient....actually I am NOT patient! I drove around and wrote numbers of places for rent, had friends from school call about them...they were all either too much money or no place for Samson. I really wanted to try and find a place where I could move to and still be able to keep Samson.


I wasn't ready to give up and move without Samson.

But still I felt discouraged. One day last week I woke up in the morning and just felt like if I never had to get out of bed I would be happy. Or not happy...happy didn't really fit in my vocabulary that day...but would be pleased, be content, if I could just stay in bed and pull the sheet over my head and never have to get up...or even never have to wake up.

But I forced myself to get up that morning and get ready for school.

Then as I was leaving for school I realized that the grenade pin Josh had given me after graduating from boot camp was missing the pin...I had the ring, but not the pin. My heart sank!

I had carried it in my purse for nearly a year....but was always afraid I would drop it or misplace it when I would switch purses....so I had put it on my keychain several months ago. Well that morning I realized that the ring was still on my keychain, but the pin from the granade was gone.


Well I was already late and had to get to school so off I went, with my sad face on!

I got through the day and came home after tutoring some of my 6th grade students. Then mixed up the recipe for apple bars and was ready to leave to go pick up my boys. On my way out the door I prayed..."God, you know where that pin is, and it would make me so happy if I could find it, I feel so lost and homeless and discouraged right now, and to lose something special to me, after I have already lost so much and so many sentimental things in the robbery, I really want that pin to the granade. Josh gave that to me, it means so much. Please God if you could just show me where it is"

I locked my front doors and was unlocking the lock from my front gate and I looked down and right there in front of the gate laid that little metal pin.

I picked it up, put it in my pocket and did a THANK YOU GOD!! Yep He knew right where it was and I was so thankful that He showed me right where it was!

It was a little faith builder as I knew that He knew right where my new home was too....if I could just wait on His timing....He would show that to me also.

The last couple of weeks have been .... scarey, sad, lonely, discouraging, fun, exciting, faith- building, frustrating, stressful..... yea, I think that about covers it!


Two weeks ago my house was robbed. Maria, who comes twice a week to clean and do laundry, walked in on the thieves. It is such a blessing that she scared them as much as they scared her and they ran out of the house. They took with them the things that they had arleady packed up in bags, but I am thankful for the things they didnt' get...like my computer!


They took my new camera I had bought while in the states with the kids at convention, my hair dryer, my jewelry (all but a small wooden jewelry box one of my students had given me last year, and in it I had some pairs of earrings and a bracelet I was given by my 6th grade class last year!)....1,000 lemperas (about $50), computer charger, cell phone chargers, ....and then some of the weird things.....my shampoo and conditioner, nearly all of my makeup, all my sweat shirts and jackets (all but my favorite jean jacket that I was wearing at the time), some shirts, a few pair of pants and capris, some flip flops....(although they left me their sandals outside on top of my pila! ha ha! not a good trade!).....some of my plastic cups, plastic bowls, some of my spoons, my Lite Creamer!.....a few purses, (if you are wondering, yes one of the thieves was a lady!)....


It had been cool in the evenings and nights, so I had been wearing my comfy Old Navy long PJ pants....until about 4 days after the robbery, and it was a hot evening and I went to look for my cooler PJ pants and discovered that they had gotten them all! Oh my gosh!

There were many things they had packed up that thankfully they did not get to take with them!

It wasn't just the valuables that they took...but there were so many things that were sentimental. I spent the first couple of days thinking of all the special things that were gone! A pair of earrings that had belonged to Amy....that can never be replaced! A necklace and earrings that I wore in Stacy's wedding. A necklace that Josh had given me when he was just a kid...he bought the pendant at a garage sale and then bought the chain with me at Kohl's.....it was the first time he really went and did his own shopping....now it's a memory. There were rings that Jim had brought to me from mission trips, and pearls he gave to each of us last year for Christmas. All gone!

Last week Gabriel was here and he saw this pink rubber bracelet laying in the bowl in my kitchen and he said miss this is mine....I told him I thought he had left it here one day...and we talked about how that was the only thing they had not taken from my bowl in the kitchen.....they took other non-valuable bracelets - made of cloth or beads made locally....he said that's because it says FAITH...that's why they didn't steal it. Yep that's right! I had thought the same thing when I first found it still laying in the bowl by my sink.

They got in by pulling the bars off one of my windows and pushing out the screen. Before getting in that way, they tried two other places to come in....trying to open the door from my patio to the kitchen, and also removing a panel outside and trying to come in through the ceiling.

I am not afraid of being in my house....but more afraid of being gone. So I have my old camera, my US cell phone, an ipod shuffle, a watch and the couple pair of earrings they did not get in my backpack in the trunk of my car. I carry my laptop with me every time I leave the house.

So the past two weeks have been stressful...and every day I have been out driving around the town looking for places to rent.....

And now I have found one.....

What vegetable am I??

I had seen this a couple of times at one of the grocery stores here....but was not sure what it was. Many times I see odd looking fruits or vegetables that I don't recognize and some of them I try and find that they are good and interesting.

Well these were located near the potatoes and since they are shaped like a sweet potatoe I thought maybe, just maybe, it was some relative of the sweet potatoe.

So I bought two...and today I peeled and boiled one to see what it would be like. I was a little surprised when I peeled the purple skin and found that the inside was white... but I was very happy when I boiled it, and added a little butter and tried it...it tastes similar to a sweet potatoe. Just a lighter flavor. But made me happy!

I love sweet potatoes, and had been thinking that one sounded really good....so I have a sort of purple similar potatoe....

Better than thinking last week that I was craving beets, since I really don't like beets, but I bought one and cooked it and yuk...now I remember why I don't like them...because I don't!

This was a much better experience.

Last Friday was Dia de Maestra....Day of the Teacher.....today one of my students brought me a sweet gift for Teacher's Day!







I was so surprised! It was our afternoon break, and she was at her desk with all the girls surrounding her...I thought something was wrong...and I went to her desk to see what was wrong with Jackeline. She said oh no nothing, and they giggled...so I am thinking they are making a note to give to a boy or something...so I go on outside to get my Coca Light....and when I came back in the classroom this beautiful box was sitting on my desk with a little note that says Miss Stepha for Teacher's Day...







And inside was a precious note and this beautiful watch!

Saturday ...Marjorie and Joel transforming my living room into our Church! We had a great rockin service!

Johanny's skate lesson

Gerson giving Johanny a skating lesson! I'm sure it was such a sacrifice! ha ha!! Said with MUCH sarcasm!

Looking at the videos today makes me miss our time in the states with these kids...it was a great trip!

I hope the memories they made will be with them for many years!

Dassia practices how to get up from the ice

More skating....Gerson is trying to help Johanny and Leslie...but the best part is Dassia and Lance...

Watch for them coming to join the group...Dassia got really good at how to get up off the ice!

Gerson Pro Skater

Gerson hit the ice like a Pro Skater!

Henry's skating lesson from a little girl

This is a video from when we were in the United States and we went ice skating. There was a little girl who was trying to help Mr. Henry learn to skate!

On cultural day we had a plan for Dassia to pull Jim into the dance...so she decided to give a little dance lesson....he had no idea in just a short time he would be out there dancing with all the kids!

Shopping Trip!

Okay, I haven't finished posting pictures and stories from the trip to the United States with the kids ...sorry I can't keep up with my life....just so much fun and exciting things going on!

So today we took a shopping trip to Tegucigalpa. We laughed at ourselves, that we were so excited today to drive for almost 2 hours to get to PriceSmart (a store that is like a Sam's) to go shopping! ha ha!

Well we headed out early this morning and Josiah was all smiles and ready to go..vroom vroom!

Before going to PriceSmart we went to the mall, did a little shopping and went to lunch.

While at the mall I got a much needed new shower curtain. My old one was being held together by staples .... it was ready to go!

So here is my cute new shower curtain!

I was very happy with my find, it even came with cute little matching hooks!

Last year I looked in every store in Comayagua for a scale and never found one. I've asked people here where could I find one, seems no one here has one. I found them today!

I bought this cute one! So I will smile before I step on every morning...hopefully will still be smiling when I step off. :)

We were in a cute store with a variety of items, and as Annette was checking out I saw this frame hanging on the wall. It was PERFECT! I had a similar frame that had gotten knocked off my wall earlier this year, in the middle of a water balloon fight with some of my kids....and the frame broke....and I had not found one again here or in the states that had the right size and shape of pictures...and here this one did!

I was so excited to come home and put the photos back in it from Joshua's Basic Training graduation! It's now hanging back on my wall!

Next we went to PriceSmart. At first it was a little overwhelming...so I walked up and down a few aisles and then I began finding some exciting buys!

A 4-pack of Clorox Wipes! Now what is so exciting about this isn't just that I found them, but it was the price. You can buy them at our local grocery store, but they are very expensive...I got a great deal on this 4-pack, so I am very excited!

They are great for wiping down the counters in the kitchen, wiping the top of the water bottles that go on the Oasis cooler....great for wiping down anything that looks dirty, might be dirty or dusty....my windows are more like shutters and the screens don't fit in my windows tight, so there is a lot of dirt and dust that blows in....oh these are wonderful!

I can't wait to start wiping down the kitchen!!!

I love yogurt and I eat a lot of it. There are not many varieties to pick from at the local grocery store....pretty much strawberry or apple, sometimes there is a peach or an apricot.....but here I found not only my favorite brand, but also BLUEBERRY! I love blueberry yogurt and have never seen it in Honduras! So I bought two variety packs of yogurt!

PEAS!!!! FROZEN PEAS!!! I love peas! I like them cold in a salad, like them mixed with pasta, like them by themselves, like them with potatoes, like them like them like them!

I have never seen frozen peas in Honduras....so I was thrilled when Annette found these!

For dinner tonight I am eating peas!!! And I am sure desert will be a blueberry yogurt!

I bought a few other items that were good deals, trash bags, beans, coke zero...but these things were the big excitement of my day!!

It was a good shopping day! And a fun day with Annette! And some funny moments with muddy windshields, and buying new wipers from the guy on the street, and trying to pump gas, and making it home through the fog and the rain, and we did it all with PRAYER, DIET COKE and M&MS!