Equations

We can take 2 bags with a max. weight of 50lbs per person before being charged extra.

There are 4 of us traveling to Ethiopia, so 50 * 2 * 4 = 400 lbs. of baggage we can take.

Don't worry it's not going to be our clothes filling that entire allotment.

We are going to try to squeeze into about 2 or 3 bags for our family's needs for the 10 day trip (only 8 days in country, rest are in travel).

So, the other 250 to 300 lbs of luggage will be filled with donations we are taking over.

Supplies the orphanages and our agency's care center need like diapers, wipes, hand sanitizer and formula.

So, the question of the night (actually there have been many questions tonight, so let's call it the question of the past half hour):

Just how much do 600 Size 4 Huggies Diapers + 720 wipes weigh?

What about 8 hand sanitizer wall dispenser refills?

We are filling and weighing and unfilling bags. And trying to figure out how much more we can get in!

Good times!

But, the luggage math is much easier than the equation of the morning, which was how to pull off 3 hours of VBS for 2,000 children with no electricity except emergency generators in our entire huge baptist church campus?

The answer to that one turned out to be obvious, though. Jesus! Only He could have done it. No children were turned away, we doubled up to utilize the rooms with windows, the kids had fun even without electricity and fancy lights and music and microphones and elevators (our classroom was on the 5th floor -- I made the trip up the stairs 4 times = no Shred workout for the rest of the week for me!) AND Jesus's love was still proclaimed RIGHT THERE IN THE SEMI-DARKNESS and stagnant air!

But the equation I most like dwelling on the most these days is 13 more days until we meet our little girl in Ethiopia minus 1. Each day we are one day closer!

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