Parents in Waiting

Not many parents pick up and leave their homes a month before their baby is due to live in a different country and simply wait for their baby to be born. But, that is what we are doing. In the final month of pregnancy most parents are still working at their jobs and finishing the final preparations for their baby. We spent the month of June wrapping up most of our work and getting everything in our house ready for our baby so there would be nothing to do in the last month of pregnancy. So…we don’t have anything to do in this final month of pregnancy—except wait. Waiting is not exactly an easy thing to do; especially when you are staying in a country where the people speak languages you don’t speak.


Below is photo documentation of what we have been doing the past 2 ½ weeks to occupy our time while we wait to meet our firstborn.



Watching TV shows and movies on DVDs we borrow from the other couples living here



Playing cards



Skinning peanuts to make peanut butter

Baking delicious, funny-shaped treats

Reading

Being entertained by the funny animals that hang out by our back door

There are a few other things we have been doing too such as walking to the market, helping sort clothes for the hospital, strolling through the Garden of Eden (a large garden here that is part of an agricultural project and has a huge variety of plants, trees and interesting fruits) and checking FaceBook.


Hopefully we don’t have to wait much longer!