Fri. May 29

 I stayed home from Sunday Schools with Gentry (+ I was having a gurgling stomach and was afraid I had come down with the same thing the littles had, fast forward.. by noon I was feeling better and so thankful!) Kaylee and her little Lars stayed home with Gentry and I while the others went on to the 2nd S.S. It was Such. A. Tremendously. Hot. Sticky. Day. 

Grilled drumsticks and thighs, roasted tater/veggie mix,  Chinese cabbage salad, watermelon, and flan for dessert.

Just as starting time for our afternoon service was rolling around, a little wind storm came rolling in also! Like it was blustery enough it didn’t feel safe to be out in it for a bit especially when one considers the type of things that fly About in windstorms here…metal roofs, huge palm fronds, etc. the wind died down and we could enjoy the cooler weather it brought with😌 Dhaka brother Brian was set on getting over to church so he could listen to the rain on the metal roof 😉 We told him if it rained too hard we wouldn’t be having a service there!… thankfully that wasn’t the case, but the weather did postpone the arrival of the rest of the afternoon’s attendance! Our crew got the church swept, chairs set up, songbooks put out, and then we sang a few songs before Shanto’s family arrived. We started the service officially then with a couple more songs. Shanto had opening and Brian the message. Interpreter Kobid was stuck in Chakrakhali with the bad weather so Lonnie asked Espondant to interpret. Kobid finally showed up halfway thru the message. But Espondant finished interpreting. Oh! I forgot to say! Antoor brought his girlfriend Tondra to church for the 1st time! They have had a relationship for 1 1/2 yrs..

We invited everybody over after church. We quickly stirred up Rhidoy’s favorite cookie (chocolate oatmeal No Bakes)😉 to go with our cha ☕️ and biscuits. A very enjoyable, jolly time with everybody😄 

After everybody left, it was such a beautiful, cooler night the teachers and girls went up to the roof and played shadow tag. 

I think it was this night sometime that Miss Aleigha, Lonnie, and I sang a few of my favorite songs and then Brian joined after a game of Carrom with the Sisters and soon I had to opt out to take care of the Bud..

Thurs May 28

 Was very happy to see Dipti show up for work today! As soon as she was done cleaning upstairs, I could go in and make beds on the floor in the classroom for the Dhaka Sisters and the bed for Brian’s in the girls room.

1:00 lunch at Shanto’s. They invited us a month ago, since Rhidoy and Pinky were gonna be back home for the 1st visit, after leaving rather suddenly to go work in Dhaka, back in Jan? They had vacation days since it’s the Muslim Eid holiday this weekend. And the Dhaka folks decided to come down this weekend also because of the long Eid weekend. Was So good to be with everybody again🤗 Shanto’s had others there also.. Pinky’s dad, Shotti’s sibling and family, Shanto’s employees and their wives and children.. served us in 2 settings right there on their concrete floor. Sitting around in a circle. With the dishes of food in the middle . They fill each plate for us.. later they served the cookies I brought and meeshti balls.(kind of like deep fried cake? Donut holes soaked in a sugar syrup?) I don’t know the actual process but that’s what it tastes like🙃 Rhidoy says, “You made Pinky and Antoor’s favorite cookie, but not mine!?” I told him he’d have to tell me what his favorite cookie is! He tried to explain it, but finally found them online…Chocolate No Bake cookies! 

Lonnie and Espondant played chess

Then we took the children home for naps.

Later we went up to Bisho Rd for chotputi, fuska, and fallada.

Wed. May 27

 Happy birthday to my little brother on the other side of the world 🎂 

Lonnie grilled chicken for the weekend.

Dipti didnt come to work because her son’s fiancé’s family was coming for a visit. So I tried my hand at making chicken curry for lunch.

We started working on washing bedding and the girls moved downstairs to the room next to ours in preparation for weekend guests.

Made choc chip cookies (Antoor’s favorite) for lunch tomorrow

Tues. May 26

Now that school is out for the summer, Lonnie felt like the girls needed something constructive to do so he went and bought a few plastic buckets and sent them up to the roof with the scrub brushes and squeegees. They donned their swim clothes and got that tile roof all clean again. 

I made loaf bread and a double batch of snickerdoodles (Pinky likes) in preparation for the weekend.

Lonnie processed a couple chickens And washed pork meat from Batiaghata.

Mon. May 25 Last day of School🥳2025-2026

 The girls only had their final Math and Language Test so they were done before noon. That’s a good feeling to have the school year over and a summer vacation ahead! Maddie finished 6th grade and Jaira finished 4th.

In the evening, we went into Khulna City for a celebration supper. To their favorite, Mambos, for burger and fries and then to New Mkt for their favorite blueberry soft serve in a waffle cone. There’s a reason going into town for an evening meal is reserved for special occasions! The traffic is terrible! And finding a parking spot nearly impossible. It was 10:00 when we got home.

The littles fevers are gone but now their food goes straight thru them 😣

Sun May 24

 We’d bought a chess game for Espondant. He’s told us one time that he liked to play and then I found them at Shwapnos! Nice little foldable board with magnetic pcs.

So Lonnie took it over and spent a couple hours with them this afternoon.

Sat. May 23

 Gentry came down with a fever in the night 😏 💭 I hadn’t even taken him to the S.S.’s yesterday..

But we needed groceries, so we still went into town as this is our weekly shopping day. 

Dominos pizza for lunch but they were running on generator so their ovens must not have been operating quite the same, as the pizza was baked harder than normal.

On the way home, I discovered Annslie was hot and miserable with a fever also🤒