Aug. 4th Countdown started.

Lord willing in 3 weeks at this time we will be unpacked, greeted all our friends, checked out the garden, done a bit of shopping for food and be prepared to restart our school year.

The last couple of days we focused on thank you letters, E-mail updates [will post it on the next blog], on-line shopping, phone calls and reducing the size of donated medications to be shipped to Haiti. By unpackaging some of the medications we can reduce the size which reduces the cost on the sea container.

Tuesday Cory and I completed our psychological evaluation-another item completed off the list for returning to Haiti. Yesterday Eli and Anna's TB skin testing was also completed-check.

Eli and Anna went to enjoy some time with Cory's folks and the cousins today and tomorrow. So Cory and I clipped some overgrown bushes, pulled weeds and played with a power washer. Cory also enjoyed putting 'Round up' weed killer on some poison Ivy-a nice therapeutic break from the office work.

While working on these tasks we remember to pray for Haiti as tropical storm Emily dumps rain on the country.