Highlights

It's been a pretty long few weeks, just with various things going weird...but here are some of the highlights.

**fanta citrus - we've always had several flavors of fanta but fanta citrus is my favorite and we just got it in last week. I could hardly believe it!

**diet pepsi - I don't even drink diet pepsi but there's just something about seeing a truck filled with like a million bottles of something new that can really make your day.

**melted plugs - for about 3 days in a row just about every plug that we had in the house melted. Not quite sure why but the refrigerator did not catch on fire so I'm considering myself blessed.

**digital pictures - there is a place where we can print pictures. It's a little pricey but it's there and I managed to go and do it all in Arabic...even convincing the lady that my pictures looked just fine the way I wanted them and that she did not need to go and mess with the colors.

**boneless chicken - we used to have it in a few stores but I haven't seen any for over 2 months now. Imagine my excitement when the store had one package!!

**I love you - this random guy walked past and said 'I love you'. Not anything unusual but when I ignored him he mumbled 'mafrood tegooli I love you too' meaning 'you're supposed to say I love you too'. I wanted to turn around and say a lot of things but I didn't and instead of getting irritated I laughed at the fact that he mixed his Arabic and English because I do that too.

**Addressing envelopes - you have no idea how liberating that can be until you've lived for a year in a place with no postal system.

**kites - imagine standing in the middle of a camp where over 750,000 people live in mud houses or tarps without electricity or running water. Everywhere you look you see brown until you see this lone brightly colored kite flying above the camp and the 100's of kids standing below it in silence, amazed by something so simple.

These past few weeks haven't been all that exciting or really all that great, but it's amazing how He still allows you to find humor and joy in the little things.