Feelin' Groovy

This house is full of projects the past few days!  

Yesterday, Chris and Tammy repaired their friends' tuk tuk before the family's return from the US.

Why pay to have new windows put in, when we have contact paper?!

Chris driving the tuk tuk to the repair shop.

Everyone's shoes

Today, we tie dyed sheets from Agape.  Due to some of the boys traumatic backgrounds, many of them struggle with chronic bed wetting.  We're tie dying the sheets make stains less visible.

 Here, Caleb is starting a fire under one of the sufrias (big metal pots).

Step 1:  Tie rags around the sheets in places to create the pattern.

Hannah and Mama May tying sheets...

The smoke was really suffocating.  Connor was smart enough to come up with a solution.

Lyla and Rachel are working on their smiles.

Step 2:  Place half of the tied sheets into the heated dye.

Step 3:  Ring out the excess liquid and hang to dry.

Jonathan was really bothered by the smoke, but he toughened up throughout the day.

These sheets are dripping until they're flipped to be dipped into another color.

You may remember the Pages blog referring to beef pilau (rice and beef).  We kept referring to this as "sheet pilau".

Protective gear for the smoke, hot water, and dye.  I kept singing "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" over and over again in my head.

Caleb, Jonathan, and Jonathan Sr. ringing out the excess liquid

JJ peeking under our clothesline

Sheets and Sufrias

Sutton squeezing the sheets

Dripping Sheets right before this line broke...ooops!!

Random Beautiful flower

Lyla, our little helper

Samuel stirring the sheets...we got lazy and dyed them solid colors.

Hannah is wearing Mrs. Tammy's apron while she and Connor made everyone lunch.

Tammy is working so hard to get new reading programs in place before this school term begins.  

The girls helped her cut out flash cards for a little while.

The gloved crew

Sutton

A praying mantis

The first sheets out of 100 drying in the sun...

We were feeling groovy with all of this tie dye hanging around!

Part of the tie dye crew

The rest of the tie dye crew...thank you to Mama Gladys, Mama May, and Caleb for all of your help!

Besties

My hubby worked hard all day.  We are all pretty drained after this job...

This is one of my favorite designs from the day.

Stained hands

My Redneck <3

Tomorrow we will be rinsing the excess dye off of the sheets, drying them again, and taking them up to Agape.  We have activity period tomorrow afternoon with the boys.  This will probably be our last because school term starts at the beginning of next week and we fly out on Tuesday.

Please continue to pray for all of us.  We are already starting to experience some emotion about leaving.  As you can imagine, we've built pretty strong attachments to these boys, the staff, other missionaries, Kisumu, and of course the Page family!  While we are looking forward to seeing everyone back home, these last few days are going to be difficult and travel home will be exhausting.  Thank you so much for following our journey and praying for us!  We're looking forward to sharing more when we get home.  I'm sure we'll be absorbing experiences from these past few weeks for years to come.  Love to you all!