4 months and counting.....

It seems I kind of remember to write a blog  every month. Life is not that busy and I could certainly do it more often.  I have to admit I am guilty of not keeping my daily journal either. Sometimes things are not that easy and they seem to get bigger when we see them on writing. Maybe that is why I have not been writing that often.
I have to admit that if I had been here all by myself I probably would have requested to be relocated. Having each other has been a lifesaving gift. The violence is more than I could imagine. There has been 24 journalists killed in the last 24 months and none of these homicides have been solved.
We don't buy the paper everyday but maybe once a week just to get in touch with reality and not acquire a false sense of security and to realize that things are still as bad as they were the week before if not worse.
They surveyed the Hondurans to see if they were in favor of a curfew and about 90% were in favor.

This has made me think of the things I miss the most:

Family and friends (ALL MY CHILDREN,GRANDCHILDREN, ALL THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS- IN- LAW,  BROTHER, SISTER, etc. etc. etc.) yes you all!!!

Our extended Church family of St. Leo the Great in Winston-Salem, and our adopted church families from Our Lady of Mercy  and Our Lady of Fatima daily Masses.

We miss our "reserved pew" at St. Leo's, where Mary  Gallagher,would be sitting behind us and we would be joined by our son Hernan and his wife Lesha. ( We have adopted some pews here in Tegucigalpa but they are not the same).

We miss the way Father Cook begins each Sunday his celebration of the Mass "as we live in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (paraphrased)

Being able to go downtown and walk without fear. We have our own curfew since we have no transportation except our God given feet we do all our outings before 6PM and mostly around where we live. We walk to church about 1.4 miles back and forth and the same for groceries etc. Hernan walks to the Hospital Escuela in the mornings and  a motorist  takes us to the clinic where we give the Diabetes  and  the other talks

and........

I miss our down comforter, having good  water pressure for a nice hot shower  and my oven!  
I will either become lazy about cooking or cook up a storm when I get back!!!