Well, we were greeted this morning by the arrival of a gift from God....in the form of a temporary nanny, Tam. Tam is the god daughter of Loan, our TDH representative here in Ho Chi Minh. I believe that at one point she had been placed in the same orphanage as Tri and Cai, because her parents couldn't afford to look after her. I get the sense that this happened when she was an older child....perhaps about 14. Loan therefore took her under her wing and has been helping her out ever since. She is now 21 or 23 and now lives with her grandmother in Vung Tau.
It is amazing how much easier things have become with this extra set of hands. From feeding to dishes, to sterlizing bottles. It's not that we couldn't do everything before, but now we are enjoying it more because we can forget about the chores, and now we can concentrate on enjoying our kids.
Well I suppose it also opens up some more time for WORK!!!! Here you see Virginia on Skype to school. She had a conference call with 3 new teachers that will be working in the new Learning Resource center. It's brand new, and Virginia was one of the main people behind the proposal. So the timing of maternity may not be ideal (though when is it ever) from the schools perspective. So she spent an hour on video conference discussing her ideas for the opening of the center.
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