Yep, it has only taken 4 years, 3 months, 2 hours and 25 min's since we brought our first child home from Guatemala for me to walk in the house after work to see one of my worst nightmares of parenthood come true. E1 glued to the computer screen with a computer game of Lightning McQueen playing and hubby glued to the TV playing basketball on Wii (my second worst parent nightmare is having a daughter that loves pink). My greetings were ignored, my attempts at conversation were ignored and I sat and ate dinner....alone. This was justified, I was told, by the fact that they had spent an hour playing in the snow before hand and they had a big lunch. Of course this is the after-Christmas excitement, but I cannot shake the fact that I have witnessed first hand how kids can no longer carry on conversations or talk to eachother at the dinner table without texting their friends or playing online video game. Remember the time when we were kids and could come up with a fun game with a stick and a rock and walked to and from school uphill both ways, (you would think I was going on 80 not 40!) I know, I know, I watch too much TV and am addicted to too many blogs so who am I to complain...
ok on to a more important subject - My Favorite Present I didn't get. Since our sponsor family from Ghana through World Vision moved out of the project area, we have been talking about sponsoring a third child. This year has been really hard on the child sponsorship program through World Vision, at last count, they have lost over 1000 (CORRECTION: oops, I was off by a figure of 10! It is 14,903! Yikes!)child sponsors. Not only does a sponsorship help an individual child, it helps their family and the funds are pooled to help the community with sustainable water supply projects, business building projects like bee cultivating and fruit tree growing, expanded agriculture etc. I thought it would be a good idea if the boys gave Papa the gift of a new sponsor child, so the boys helped me choose a little girl who happened to be sporting a traditional Congolese hair style (very cute) and we sent in the first monthly payment. We can't wait to write her a letter and introduce ourselves and maybe meet her when we travel for the adoption like we did with the little boy we sponsor in Ethiopia. So technically, it was not my present, but certainly one that I am sure T is going to share. If you are interested in sponsoring a child through World Vision, you can sign up on-line at www.worldvision.org.
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