This morning we made our normal weekly call to the children’s home and asked for Olegs first this time. We looked up more Latvian words so we could talk to him better. He says “yes” to everything, whether he understands us or not, so we have to speak more Latvian with him so he can really understand. We asked about the weather and if it was snowing. He said “no” but it was rainy. He said he was happy and having a good day. We had to talk loud at times. In the background, we could hear someone screaming and gunshots going off!! Turns out they were watching some violent movie and had the volume turned up way loud. We talked with Olegs a little more about his school and updated him on what’s going on here before we asked him to get Kristine. We signed off by telling Olegs how much we love him and miss him and then said, “We talk to Kristine now. You get Kristine?” He said “yes” and promptly hung up on us! We definitely need to work on our Latvian! LOL! Rob and I chuckled and then called right back. One of the older boys answered the phone and when we asked for Kristine, we could hear Olegs in the background going “OOOYYYYY” which is what he says when he realizes he misunderstood something.
We had a good chat with Kristine too. She was happy and very chatty. She wanted to know when we are coming to Latvia now and we told her we’re waiting for the Latvian government to give us permission. We just told her to pray that it will be soon and we will pray too. We talked about Halloween coming up soon in America and asked if they celebrate Halloween in Latvia. Kristine got very excited and said “oh yes, my costume is witch.” The kids in Latvia also get lots of candy. Kristine always tells us how much she loves dance, so we normally tell her she should be a ballerina. She can't stand it when we say that. She says, “I no like ballerina, I only like hip-hop dance.” We joked that she could be a hip-hop ballerina and dress up like a hip-hop ballerina for Halloween…she’d be the first and only one. She had a good laugh, but I’m sure she must think we’re crazy at times. HA!
Throughout the conversation, that dang TV seemed to get louder and louder…more ladies screaming and people being shot! We asked Kristine if the children at her children’s home had hearing problems because their TV is so loud. She laughed and said “no.” She’s in for a big reality check when she gets here…mom and dad will be controlling the remote and her TV watching will be censored. We’ll wait to spring that on her when she gets here.
All in all it was great to have a light-hearted conversation with the kids and to have a relaxing weekend this weekend. The events of the last couple of weeks had definitely added some stress but that has since subsided somewhat. We'll continue to await the various court rulings and try to keep busy in the meantime. We have every reason to believe the rulings will be in our favor so we're focusing on that and remaining positive.
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