My kids are just so great

I was totally overwhelmed about my kids' reaction to my return to Motherly Care this afternoon. I was only away for 1 night and I definitely did not expect for them to miss me too much but the moment I arrived I was welcomed by so many smiling faces and hand shakes and "So nice you are back" comments... It was so lovely. Samuel - a boy with whom I spend quite a lot of time as he is always around the guest house (where I am staying) feeding chickens and attending to other chores - seemed the most happy with my return - he did not want to leave my side and was very keen on showing how much he missed me - by bringing me some sliced tomatoes with salt (which he prepared on his own), by emptying my bin, even by ensuring that the leftover water which I boiled to make some tea was covered in case I needed it later... And he is only 11... He loves to read so whenever he is free I give him a story book to read in my room.
All this made feel absolutely great and definitely helped me overcome yet another low spell lasting since beginning of last week.

Today, again, we were visited by John Bravo - a scout who is helping us to introduce some more activities at Motherly Care, i.e. working with beads, sports and scouting. He is the one who is currently teaching me and providing a lot of materials about the whole process of rescuing children from child labour and the streets... I am very excited about all of this as I want to be able to reach out to as many children as possible.

John wanted to show our children the "Stolen Childhoods" documentary (we have already seen 2 different videos in previous weeks) so we proceeded to Motherly Care. Again I was greeted by many children running from all sides just to hug me - an absolutely amazing feeling. I spent the entire afternoon with children in my arms and on my lap, by my feet... it was a great end to quite a challenging week. I cannot describe the feeling but I did not want to let go of any of them and was quite sad when they eventually had to go to have their supper...

I brought some banana cake with me today and since there were many children around me this afternoon, it was finished in seconds but my children were so happy with such a small gift... I am now very excited about organising my delayed b'day party for next month - I am definitely bringing a huge cake, there must be hotdogs as children absolutely love it and I am thinking that I should also arrange some ice cream for them... I want this celebration to stay in their memories for a very very long time... :) yes, it is making me feel really good when I can treat my children to sthg they might have not tried before or sthg that they get very rarely and that might be perceived as a selfish reason to be doing that but I love the feeling I get when I see so many happy faces around me. I have been very strict with them lately and since we are so severely underfunded I cannot be doing things like this very often but on this one occasion I am going to spoil them as much as I can :) After that I will have to concentrate all my energy on fundraising and learning all about helping children living on the streets...