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but one of my reader friends, whom i didn’t know read my little blogs, because she hasn’t commented until now, has prompted me to write another!

not much has gone on.  my husband is home from haiti.  i am very happy.  although, he has been fighting a sinus infection since he has been home making me a “mother” of 4 instead of 3….

we have wonderful house guest right now, nick and jacki kohfal.  it is always nice to reminisce with friends. nick and jacki have two children: ella, 4 and zane, almost 3.  sam and ben have had fun.  most of all because some new toys have been brought into their house.  not a whole lot of toddler interaction.  maybe by the time zane has to leave they will realize that it is more fun to play with the one who brought the new toys, not just bogart them all for themselves.  as for my house it looks like a category 5 hurricane has hit it.  but that is ok.  just for a time.

on a different…maybe a blog to come…note:  i think i have my husband convinced to shave his locks of hair off this afternoon!!!  that will be a subject i look forward to blogging about!  until then…i really have nothing neat to write about.

day 5 of being without my husband will officially be over in 2 minutes and we will start the 6th…hopefully with a little sleep.  the lovely art of technology i has allowed me to be able to either talk via cell phone, chat via ichat or even see a very fuzzy pixilated picture of my vivaciously haired husband via video chat. all of this b/c somewhere on the desolate island country of haiti, the poorest county in the western hemishpere,  there is a wireless router that he and the mac carriers along with him have been able to pick up.  what a privilege for me!  i love to hear his voice, know that he is ok, hear the great things that God is doing in/through him and our team there.

they have been to a couple of the many orphanages and schools around the region, playing with children, and handing out much coveted food sacks.  these food sacks are filled with lentils, beans, rice and seed packets.  they share the love of Jesus in a way that relates to the Haitian people.  providing for them, already there has been testimonies of people saying they had no food left and didn’t know how they would feed their family-then our team gave them a sack of food!

i love the fact that although i can’t be there i can get a day to day report from my husband of the people they have seen and what God has done that day.

i say all this for my point:  about 15 mins ago i had the last convo with him for 2 days.  tomorrow he and 8 others from the team will leave at 6 am to travel up a mountain-with a pretty tough hike involved to visit the people there.   preceding them up there is a couple of donkeys and a truck with food and 50 goats.  once they get there they will  scout out food drop sites and minister to the people teaching them nutritional skills and how to use there goats to the fullest potential.

this is such a blessing.   in Haiti goats are precious commodities for families.  not only can they provide milk, but they are also the most common dinner meat, their manure can be used as a fertilizer in vegetable gardens, and they can produce 2 or 3 kids (baby goats) a year.   this is going to be a great opportunity.

an unforgettable experience.  please pray for them and for myself as i wait to be connected again.

so i have decided that i won’t be contributing to the massive amounts of plastic in our landfills.  i ordered a number of reusable bags from store chicobag.com to tote along in the vehicle or purse when i do my shopping.  i do, however, need to have some of the non-biodegradable bags for the disposal of james and lottie’s compost, if you will….

i have never thought of becoming “green”.  my father thinks that global warming is just another way for people to make money, which to some crazy republican point, i agree with him.  but i do, with the onset of being a mother of 3, want to preserve this earth for my children.  God has put us here ultimately to praise him and to win the lost for him.  but along the way i do believe we should take care of his creation.  on the side of my dad, i wish this was more afordable to do.  i looked in to flushable diapers recently….yes, i was willing to pull apart a dirty diaper, use a swish stick to stir it and save the planet in the mean time.  but to my dismay the adorable and earth-friendly gDiapers-were not wallet friendly.  buying organic is the same.  i do purchase some organic produce and my sister-in-law Lindy has enlightened me on how important organic milk is to my children, but to go completely organic means to take out a second morgage.  so at this time in my life i think i am satisfied with being just a little green.  so i will pack my reusable chico bags and set off in my gas guzzling environmentally hating tahoe to do my grocery shopping…only buying 20% organic!!

so i thought i would try this whole blog thing out.  i have blogged on myspace before, but i thought i would try to do more of an online journal thing instead.  however, i am a pretty private person for the most part.  i complain only to my husband and a very select close friends. so i think that this may be a way of just letting friends and family know how this family of 5 is doing on a more day-week basis. not so much a “what is happening in the intricate parts of jessica burgbacher’s life”    i think i may enjoy this!