Jo’s Jovial Jolly Jocular Journal

Yesterday we bought a new car.

Now we don’t have to get worried about getting stranded on the side of the road in the dark. This is good.

We picked it up from a shopping centre where we met the man who was selling it. We exchanged our car and gave that to him. We spent all day there because it is a very lengthy process to become the owner legally….so we were trying to get all of that done in the government offices which are there nearby. Luckily Sebastian was great and slept in his pram a bit while we tried to get through all the red tape.

At the end of the day we were exhausted. It was pouring with rain. We were rushing because we had another event in the night. We were disappointed cause we weren’t able to finish all that we had to do and have to go back on Monday and we were excited about the car.

We hopped in it and drove home.

At midnight last night Victor woke me saying ‘Jo, do you know where the pram is?’. It seems that in the rush and confusion and excitement I trusted that he had put it in the boot and he trusted that I had put it in the boot. We seemed to have left it in the carpark in the shopping centre…..

I rang today and they said that they hadn’t seen a pram. It seems that someone else must have thought that is was a good find. A lone pram in a shopping centre.

So we got a new car and lost our pram. And these days I use a pram more than a car, so it is a very sad and expensive loss.

I am really not sure how between the two of us this could have happened!! Boo!

‘Sam is unbelievably pretty, with long, thin, Christlike feet. I told my friend Carpenter this and he said, “It’s an often-difficult world out there, and it’s good to have long, grippy feet.” ‘ Anne Lamott- Operating Instructions

Sebastian has long, grippy, lovely feet. They should serve him well.

Victor and I went to have something to eat to celebrate me finishing work for a while. When we came out of the restaurant we realised that we were dining right beside a car riddled with bullet holes where someone had been killed just hours before. On the way home we passed an accident that must have happened not long before because the man who had obviously run into the other car was sitting shaking in his car with a shocked and terrified look on his face. Then we came home to watch a DVD about a man having to cut off his arm, not the best theme to end the night with….

However, today we woke up to bright sunshine, birds singing in the tree outside our window and a morning of getting things done and eating delicious fruit.

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Psalm 30:5

We still have another 15 hours till 2011 but hope you have enjoyed yours so far!

We are on holidays in Belize. This morning we got up early and swam in the Carribean. The weather isn’t fantastic. It is now rainy and windy but we don’t mind cause we are relaxing. Fantastic. We told the canchito that he was practicing for birth when we went swimming, having not been able to swim since I became pregnant. We tried to interpret my stomach movements to see how he was enjoying the experience. I interpreted that he was having a great time, Victor thought he was scared and wanted to get out of the water….it is hard to know with a baby, especially one still in utero. Will try again at Easter in Byron Bay hey and see if we can better understand him then.

I have discovered (after spending a long time waiting in the normal queue in the bank once) that in Guatemala there are several places where there is a special queue for old people and pregnant women. Like in banks. What a shame that they don’t have that in Immigration where I have spent much time standing in queues in the past few weeks.

Not having been pregnant in Australia I am curious as to whether we have that fantastic tradition or are queues in Australia not quite what they are in Guate so there is no need?

Some of mine are:

The smell of the ground when it first starts to rain.
Fresh baking bread.
Fresias.

Some of Victor’s are:
The smell of the ground when it first starts to rain.
Cow manure.
Fresh tortillas.

Yours?

God always provides for our needs in a great variety of ways but one of them is the generosity of our friends and family.

So I want to say thanks to all of you who have gifted us, monetarily or in other ways during this year. We are so grateful for you.

One of the perceived (but perhaps not actual) benefits is that I feel like I am less likely to get mugged on the street.

Our son (currently know as the canchito) now hiccups and can make weird and wonderful shapes on the surface of my tummy!!!