Not this time, borsch, and a mission farwell.

Farwell Mission gift .

I don't want to overwhelm my friends with so many posts, but I also don't want to miss journaling the fun things we've been doing - just because we've been busy. Last night, I kept myself wide awake until 3:00 a.m. I wasn't sure why I couldn't sleep, but it just wasn't happening for me. Unfortunately, and for those keeping up with our fertility quest, the reason for my inability to fall asleep was because my cycle was starting again. It was a let down for sure, but I'm not going to get discouraged. After all, I've got Mique's good four leaf clover luck charm!

The girls headed to school and I headed for my morning run. I missed Thursday and Friday last week, but found it easier to run four miles today then any other day and that's with cramps! It felt really good and I'm ready for tomorrow. I quickly showered and headed to a party store and toys r us to find pirate themed stuff for the girls party. I found a couple things but felt it wasn't worth the expense and that I would shop in the states somehow before their birthday. I did ask a friend and she told me about a huge party store on the west end of the island that I'll try to check out tomorrow. I also have been a personal quest for jeans, and am happy to say I found a great pair at Jacob, a chain clothing store here.

Cici, Carina, Me, and Nini - selves portrait!

After school, the girls and I headed to Carina's home. She and her family had to leave their children in the Ukraine while the traveled here to Quebec in hopes of Quebec residency. They are absolutely your modern day pioneers. She's been separated from her children for about six months, one girl who's 8 and two boys 6 and 4. Her husband left for the Ukraine earlier this week and are returning with them tomorrow! This after she just received residency! Anyway, she was making food for her family and wanted to have us try Borsch (basically cabbage and beet stew). It was much better than I expected it to be! The girls were so sweet and told her how much they liked it and even ate a lot of it. I could totally tell they were putting on a brave face. It's not what they're used to, but they're Russian - so maybe they really did like it! I told Carina about our my online journal and she was only happy to get in the self-portrait spirit.

Pink leather bound Journal
Personalized inside cover.

Randomly put these inpirational stickers through top of journal.

After Carina's we headed off the island about 20 minutes, to our Bishop's daughter's fun little mission send-off get together. She's was called to go to Japan. I put together this journal, personalizing the inside and picture frame for her. She's been working toward this for so long, I just felt like I needed to tell her how awesome she is for sticking to her goal. It was fun, we stayed for bit and then we headed home. It was late, but we stayed up talking about their adoption story by using this book. It was a lot of fun, and I actually had them cracking-up. I said that when it was time for us to take them home, they handed me two cute naked babies (seriously) and I didn't know what to do! They thought that was hilarious. It was fun! Long day, I guess I'd better get going on a semblance of cleaning today.

What kind of gifts do you give at farwell's?
Where do you get your party supplies?


Distance goal: Wednesday (last week) 3 miles, Monday (today) 4 miles.