Day 33 - Rug (Throw) and Cross Magnet (Give)

Fighting a head cold tonight, so I need to keep this short.  Nothing too exciting to write about here anyway:  We threw away the rectangular rug from the upstairs living room.  The dog had made a mess of it over the last few years and it was dingy and worn.  The room looks better without it, which is good since that means I won't have to spend money on a replacement.

Getting rid of the rug was just one more little step in preparing the house for sale.  I hung the mirror in the bathroom this evening, so that project (painting, repair, trim) is about complete.  It looks good.  One room of the house is ready to sell!

The kids are also getting anxious about not having the Christmas tree up.  We usually put the tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving, so this is really late for us.  Personally, I kind of like waiting a bit.  If you have it up for over a month, there's no building of the celebration.

I also had a give away today - a very small one.  Dats and I walked down the street to pick up small Boy Scout popcorn from our neighbor.  Samuel is a sweet, polite boy and he's the same age as Dats.  They were actually in Scouts together for a while, but we had Dats drop out after a year because he just wasn't excited enough about it to commit as much time as it deserves.  Besides, the schedule clashed with soccer practice.  I gave Samuel a wooden cross magnet that I had grabbed at the last minute before we walked to his house.  (The cross is wooden and inscribed with Psalm 51:10, but you can only read the words if you tilt the cross just right - then the words come into sharp focus.)  It gave me an excuse to tell these neighbors about our decision to move to Haiti.  They were very excited for us.

Speaking of Haiti, please pray for the country as a whole since the election situation (especially combined with the cholera outbreak) continues to be volatile.  OMS runs a medical clinic there in Cap Haitien and apparently they are seeing quite a few cases of cholera.  They have successfully treated over a 100 patients over the last few days, but yesterday saw 4 deaths from cholera.  The doctors and nurses are exhausted and emotionally spent.  Please pray for them.