Oh, it's so good to hear from you on this first blog, back in the Nica after 2 years away! Molly, I was so glad to hear from you, again! The pictures, even this few yet, are just terrific! Yes, travel with a baby (especially at Isabel's independent age of freedom!) are always, shall we say, CHALLENGING. These pics of Isabel just melt my heart; I do miss all of you! Attended Addy's college graduation with Ben and Addy's family. Rode down (&back) with your Dad. Was a beautiful day for a drive. I'm enjoying working back on HCR 77 @ the PO, for Keith. At least SOMETHING feels old & comfy & familiar. Great to be back, though part-time. We'll see what life holds for all of us when you guys get home. Nice pic of Mamita & Isabel. DAMN! Now, I REALLY wish I'd taken Lenin up on his offer to join you all down there! YOU might have had a more relaxed time with a little help. Oh, well, at least, court's over now. Maybe next year? Ha! Hello to everyone down in Moropoto, Nicaragua! xo
Digo we............... Halla en Naolinco, existen de esos poison's, cuidao aya se fuma :S
Tengo que admitir que soy adicto al chichicastle JELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Advice for Venus Kindergarten Hi I read from your post used to teach at Venus; is it the same as Qiming in Chinese? I am contemplating to send my daughter there the Shunyi branch? Would you recommend that I do so? What sort of teaching materials do they use? I try asking them but they couldn't answer me or I didnt understand since it was in Chinese. I can be contacted on ianne.loh@hotmail.com.
Looking forward to hear from you.
CONGRATULATIONS hOOORAY FOR mOLLY ! Congratulations Molly! You are an inspiring and awesome woman, and I'm glad I got to meet you
Chris Priska RN
Centers of Hope International
Mission Trip 2009
GOOD TALK!!!!! Oh, Molly, it was SO good hearing your voice over the phone tonight!! You know, in all of your time away from home, we've at least had the internet and your great blog with which to visit. So, thank you, my Molly, for sharing so willingly with all of us back home (and in other far reaches of the world!). We have learned so much about life in another place so far away. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined some of the things you've shared. It's been just great!!!!
BUT,..........IT WILL BE EVER-SO-WONDERFUL to have you and Lenin up here on Spencer Creek Road! We can hardly wait until next TUESDAY!!!!!! So, to Nicaragua, for now,......happiness and farewell!!! XO
Hola Well, there's only a few things to tackle and then you'll be on your way. Can't imagine what emotions will be flying on that day. Just hold on to your hats...you and Lenin will be fine! Very exciting about the family expanding their farm land...good luck to them! I'll be thinking of you sending warm thoughts...
The Ultimate Tourist My name is Jennie and i just wanted to let you know that there now is a webpage called http://theultimatetourist.com where tourists from around the world finally can get some use from all these photos they have, posing by different tourist attractions.
Here you can choose between over onehundred different attractions and activities, upload your travel-photos and collect one tourist-point for each photo. You will reach different levels of Tourist the more photos you upload, and everybody over 80 points will be Ultimate Tourists.
Remember, you have to be in every photo yourself to prove you were actually there, and dont worry about the 'No backpackers'-sign. Its just for fun ;).
So if you would like to compete with your photos, or maybe just spread the word, go into http://theultimatetourist.com
Good Luck with your travels!
Vilma Molly & Lenin, I have had so many people expressing an outpouring of sorrow for your loss, hugs for you all, and general well-wishing for you since they have heard of Lenin's Mother's passing. The last of many (ugh! Memory WHERE ART THOU?!), Dianna wanted me to send her sympathies.
Love you and counting the days!
Dear dear Molly & Lenin and family, We are all so very very sorry at the loss of your Mother, Vilma. We got to meet her for the only time while we were down for your wedding. What a beautiful person she was ...... in and out. I will forever remember the warm twinkle in her eyes and her beautiful smile. Through Molly's translations for words, Vilma told me that I was now Lenin's Mother, and she asked me to love him as our son. I promised and told her how grateful we were that she had totally accepted our Molly as her own. We each reached out for a tearful cheek-to-cheek hug. I'll always picture your Mother just like that. Beautiful, tender and loving. In fact, I KNOW that she was always this way: I have met her children.
Thinking of you and Lenin and family I heard of Vilma's passing from Steve when I called on Christmas Day. Please send our sincere condolences to Lenin and his family. It is so sad that Vilma had such a short life. Her children will miss her terribly, as will the rest of her extended family. I am so sorry for your loss Molly. Remember that we love you and we are thinking of you every day.
Aunt Lori, Stewart, Katherine and Keaton
XO, Molly Thank you. A real variety of pictures. I love it that you know your way around the Nica so well. Gosh, by comparison,...I've just barely seen but a little bit of Missouri!! And, we have our own cars and real roads! Tsk Tsk! I must get out more, I guess. However, am finding, as I age, that I get more and more content to enjoy our little corner of Camden County and find that I like it at home the best! Can hardly wait to, again, enjoy some of life's wee treasures here with you. XO Mom
We've been so busy.... SO BUSY building "the shed". Clearing the trees (hoo! major undertaking in itself), having Willie and Frankie dig the HUGE hole, leveling, filling with white chat, digging and drilling and pulling rocks and mud out of the huge holes, raising the 14' tall 6x6 lumbers, setting the massive poles in hand-mixed concrete, getting the trusses up (thank GOD for Ernie and his tractor with its lift/bucket thangy!), etc, etc, etc. I guess that the plan is for Steve and Tom to put all of the metal on the building by themselves).
ANYWAY, not much time in the house and nearly ZERO time on the computer. Hey...you guys have NOT been abandoned by us!! Ha! So glad to get your emails and your blogs and talk with you on the phone, Molly!!! This coming week is full of FINALS for Ben, then he expects to be home Sat. night! I hope to have it looking a little like Christmas by next weekend!! More again soon as the weather's to turn bitterly cold around noon tomorrow! XO
I have just read a couple of books that are really good... borrowed them from a neighbor at her suggestion....by Pat Conroy... Prince of Tides and Beach Music. I highly recommend... takes you from laughing to crying in one paragraph!
fair trade Molly, maybe getting involved in a fair trade business would sell nicaraguan products, perhaps locally or via the internet. Also, a lady I know is doing something interesting in Mexico to help women help themselves. It's at http://www.proyectobienestar.org/
suerte chica, sigue tus sueños y seguramente los alcanzarás
More on our Day of Giving Thanks WOW!.......you are welcome! We, too, would like to thank YOU, my Molly, for adding such a good and kind and fun and eager new member to our family! Can hardly wait until you and Lenin are here!!!!!!
OUR Thanksgiving Day celebration at Doris's was just perfect! The food.................YUM! It was the 3 of us, Rhonda, Alex, Serena and Kirk, and Doris. The company was First Rate! Doris and hers have ALWAYS been so very hospitable and have always shared with us, as if we were a part of their family. I just truly love each one of them.
It's late and tomorrow's Monday at the PO. We love you so very much, Molly, and are thankful each and every day that you are our daughter. Ben, too, read your blog and chuckled at your mention of him. Night-night! XOXOXO
Sniffles! Oh Molly...Im so touched and excited for you and proud of you. Congrats for sticking it out. I cant imagine what my life would be like if I had stayed. Im so happy it turned out for you, that we are still in touch and that you sound like you feel as accomplished as you truly are! Happy Holidays and safe journeys!
CONGRATS! Molly, CONGRATULATIONS on a job well done. We've so enjoyed your blogs and your teaching all of us about a place that we'd never have known anything about without your brave venture into an unknown country. It's been an interesting and knowledgeable journey for us, through your experiences. Thank you for being the adventurous you and for sharing these past couple of years with us! We love you!
Oye chiquita! No lo creo! No has sido mas que unas semanas que nosotras estuviumos andando juntas por las calles de Esteli, reyendonos a las carcajadas y buscando el Pali :) Te extrano mucho, felicidades con todo, y LLAMAME cuando tu y el guapito tuyo estan en los EU! No se si todavia tienes mi numero, el nuevo es 813 407 8461. HAY QUE VISITARME en Los Angeles! (Hay tostones en nuestro menu para esta Dia de la Accion de Gracias que viene. Seguro que vas a llevar una parte de Nica contigo cuando sales ;)
Abrazos! Ojala que nos vemos y que te viajes bien.
Sarita
I made it.. I even had a laugh or two on the customs part at the top. soo silly. but I guess they could look at some of our customs in the us as silly to: like black cats are bad luck, walking under a ladder is bad luck. etc.
Yay for your resolutions.. what a goal! I am really excited for you both to come back to the states!! Excited to visit you all!
CONGRATULATIONS, MOLLY!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! You are within a few days of being one of the ELITE self-starter people of the world who set out on their own less-travelled paths to make a DIFFERENCE in the WORLD. Not only did you set out with this selfless goal, but you have ACCOMPLISHED it!!
We are all so proud of you! Not only did you change your family and community, but you got so much in return. We love Lenin, too, as well as other family and friends that we met at your wedding.
Now, my Molly,..........it's almost time for you to bring your husband and COME HOME!!!!!! (yay!!!!!!!!!!). Love you and am so very proud of you being YOU! xo
Molly, Molly, dear dear Molly,......NO, we have not abandoned you! Nor have we forgotten you.
A coupla things.....Vilma. I just can hardly stand to sit up here while you and Lenin (and the whole family) are down there, together, watching Vilma waste away. As you know, it is a horrible, horridly horrible feeling of uselessness. I know that you, too, would rush her to a plane (via ambulance, I'm sure) and get her up here to our Lake hospital in a second, if only we could. Not KNOWING, even, WHAT her illness really is is causing everyone pain and frustration. Please, you all have to stay together and promise me that you'll all H U G each other lots. Hugs keep people close to one another. I am so sorry (1) for the suffering that Vilma is yet going through, and (2) for this weight of sadness that is encapsulating all of you when this is, otherwise, SUCH a time of celebration. Please continue to keep us posted. XO
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Oh, it's so good to hear from you on this first blog, back in the Nica after 2 years away!
Molly, I was so glad to hear from you, again! The pictures, even this few yet, are just terrific! Yes, travel with a baby (especially at Isabel's independent age of freedom!) are always, shall we say, CHALLENGING. These pics of Isabel just melt my heart; I do miss all of you! Attended Addy's college graduation with Ben and Addy's family. Rode down (&back) with your Dad. Was a beautiful day for a drive. I'm enjoying working back on HCR 77 @ the PO, for Keith. At least SOMETHING feels old & comfy & familiar. Great to be back, though part-time. We'll see what life holds for all of us when you guys get home. Nice pic of Mamita & Isabel. DAMN! Now, I REALLY wish I'd taken Lenin up on his offer to join you all down there! YOU might have had a more relaxed time with a little help. Oh, well, at least, court's over now. Maybe next year? Ha! Hello to everyone down in Moropoto, Nicaragua! xo