A normal week

Daniel was away for the beginning of last week. He got home late on Wednesday night. One Monday Bethany came home with her first wobbly tooth and by tea time it had fallen out. She is very proud to have joined the ranks of the toothless. Tuesday Josh caught a frog that he wanted to take to school. However after looking on the Internet I decided that it would be dead by morning and so we should let it go. At which point it promptly escaped inside the house and then we had to catch it again in order to let it go outside. Wednesday Caleb had an itchy backside, (too much information you might say) but i decided worms or no worms it was time to de-worm. I am not the biggest fan of checking backsides for worms, so I like to take precautionary measures. Thursday we had a staff meeting with one of the executive team from MAF International. It looks like we will be downsizing to fit in to the new world financial situation and the missionaries from the global south. On Friday we had the said important person for lunch to discuss stuff. There are lots of changes afoot here, so lots to talk about.
Friday night there was a power cut and then lots of noise from the electrical box on the side of our house. The power was back on in the morning but shortly after breakfast it went off again. However this time it was only our house. We had no electricity all day and had to wait until late afternoon for Tanesco to come and fix it. This involved a slightly worrying situation with a man with large rubber gloves a ladder and a lot of hissing and crackling. Well the electricity is back on again now, but will probably go off again tomorrow. C'est la vie. (probably the only bit of French I remember!) The upside of the power cut was that we got to go out for lunch. Sunday we had already booked to go to the local pizzeria for mothers day lunch. This has recently opened close to our house and also has a mini golf course and a play ground for kids. It's quite exciting for Dodoma and gives us somewhere else to go. By Sunday afternoon we were all very hot so headed off to the pool to cool down!!!