CROQUET ANYONE?

Just for the fun of it, I sent a croquet set to Romania last week. I have a feeling this will be the Livada kids' first adventure with the fun game of croquet. It's a shame that the cost of shipping things is so prohibitive! There are so many fun things they would enjoy. They also recently received bikes, so I have a feeling maybe they will be more enthralled with their bikes right now -- but they'll get to the croquet eventually. It has always reminded me of miniature golf. I sure hope they enjoy it.

Anca is translating some books called character books. Each one has a short story about topics that will be very helpful to the kids -- topics such as courage, kindness, honesty, etc. There are SO many fun possibilities for things that will be of help to the kids as they go about learning "life lessons".

For some fun pictures showing both the Casa Nadia and the Casa Ana kids on vacation at the Black Sea, go to the blogs at www.khornsby.blogspot.com and www.acrownofbeauty.blogspot.com Some of the pictures are so fun you just can't help but smile and laugh right out loud!

CLOTHING ARRIVED ! HOORAY!

Received the good news yesterday that the 20 boxes of clothing (more than 600 pounds!) that were donated by my church, co-workers, and friends have arrived safely to Targu Mures, Romania. Seems hard to believe that the ocean shipment takes 8-10 weeks, but that's how it is. My other fear was that the clothing would be WAY too big -- as I'm sure some of it was. I do think somehow that we Americans are just slightly larger than the Romanians are! Anyway, I am grateful to so many people for having donated clothing and to Anca for having done all the work of laundering and neatly folding more than 150 pounds of baby clothing! What a job! I pray that the clothing will be a blessing to the abandoned babies and to the kids at Casa Rebeca, Casa Ana, and Casa Nadia. Some of the larger sizes will be distributed to the teens that are in Livada Orphan Care's care in the mentor apartments.

Thanks everybody!