Fri Sep 18

 At Choygoria S.S. one of the 10? yr old boys has been cutting up worse every week. This Fri it was especially disruptive so Lonnie had him spend some time on a chair in front of the class. He was good as gold the rest of the morning. But my girls wonder if he will come next Fri after being punished.?. We had a women asking for medical funding for her dislocated elbow join our class while she waited to talk to Brother. 

3:00 Doctrine class

4:00 service

Sitting in church, I observed a small group of Muslim men walking on the road viewable from the church window. Their full ankle length robes and prayer caps at this time of the day, at this part of the village set off alarm bells in my mind but I dismissed them and concentrated on the service again. As Kobid was having opening Lonnie was all sudden inviting some folks that were looking in the windows to come in and sit down. And it was those same fully garbed Muslim men I’d seen walking past the window earlier😳 💭 “what in the world are these men doing in our service!?!” I was so nervous! When it was time to pray, they took their leave. 😌 Lonnie told me later, that those were his friends from the tea stall he frequents.🙃

Shotti’s dad was at church but Shotti didn’t come because of a headache and Antoor didn't come again either. 

Walking home from church, we passed Nee-tie at the chicken dhokan and he said he wanted to bring some food tonight.. today is one of their Hindu special days and they were cooking.. we had some of Miss Christina’s choc chip cookie bars while we waited. His wife showed up with not 1 but 2! bowls of kichuri. Most of us tried a little but it didn’t land anywhere close to  the ranks of best kichuri we’ve had in this country🫣 Our maid was very happy to receive the 2 gal ziplock bags of the rice, lentil, and meat dish a couple days later🤫 

We spent a rousing evening playing The Farming Game. It was a whole house effort to keep the littles happy and occupied while we took turns farming, but we managed a good 4+ hrs of it😅

Thurs Sep 17

 There has been quite a heat wave again lately resulting in many power outages thru the day. Once again to the point that the battery backup is eventually drained.

Dipti showed up this morning with something to show me… out of a bag she pulled a pc of gauze filled with the pcs of her son’s nose that the Dr had removed!!🤮 not sure why we needed to see that or why she even has them!!?!! 

She was in a bit of distress over their Onek Shamosha(much trouble) as she showed me her face where hot oil had splattered and burned her😣 I helped her put some B&W salve on the spots.

She cooked us up a delicious Bangla meal, chicken curry, rice, dhal, stirfry veggies

Wed Sep 16

Dumuria Eye Camp. Lonnie caught rickshaw van to Bissho Rd by 7:30

Bigger turnout than it has been. Around 400. 

Walked back in the door at 3:15 pm

Dipti back at work. Turjo’s broken nose operation was successful and he got home from the hosp yesterday

Tues Sep 15

Lonnie got up early this morning and grilled chicken for me to put in the crockpot for lunch🤎

After the girls were in school, Lonnie and I were visiting out on the porch while watching the littles play. Suddenly Gentry is trying out his 1st solo run down the ramp off the porch, which is about a 2 ft elevation. He did really great till he got to the bottom where he went head over heels with his face receiving the brunt of the meeting with the concrete😫resulting in a skinned nose and forehead.

After supper, *while the girls cleaned up supper, Lonnie and I took the littles, in their strollers, on a walk to Neeconjo for eggs. The dark evening seemed especially hot and still. 

*when we got back, the girls hadn’t got as far as they could’ve on the cleanup. They had taken the opportunity to practice Hindu ululating..

Mon Sep 14

 This morning Lonnie spent some time putting Gentry’s feet under him in a crouching position attempting to teach him how to stand up in the middle of a room

This evening he did it all by himself and continued to do it and enjoy his new capability 🥰 it’s so wonderful to be past the stage of him begging all day for us to hold his hand and walk with him, it was sweet, but very wearying to have him always trying to get a hold of a finger and pull us away from whatever we were doing to go walking around the house Or better yet, outside!

Harun Brother from Tala stopped in this afternoon. His teenage daughter Mukta is doing 3 months of schooling in Khulna. She has been sick with some kind of virus so he was wanting help with her medicine bills.

After supper, follow up School board mtg.

Sun Sep 13 The Bud walks independently 🤗

 Gentry really took off today with independent walking, cruising all over the place from room to room💙… 1 week shy of 11 months.. 

an interesting note… he walks with both hands upraised, as high as they can go, spread eagle 🦅 style everywhere he goes

Dipti’s son Turjo’s scheduled nose surgery

Made a batch of pickles with an imported Mrs Wages mix

Made a double batch of tortillas. Lonnie fried them up putting a spoon of oil on the pan making them just a bit crispy and flaky like the local paratha/fry bread. Ate them with dhal(lentils) for a most delicious supper🤤

Sat Sep 12

 Dipti came in today also since she plans to take off tomorrow for Turjo’s broken nose operation

Got a load of laundry thru and hung out

We went in to Khulna for our weekly outing. Mambo’s was closed so we went to Domino’s Pizza for lunch. Safe N Save, at Day-7 went upstairs to do extra browsing and found 2 dresses that looked like they would work for Annslie , fruit and veggie market, and Shwapnos for milk.