A Craving for Ethiopian Food

Tonight we went out to celebrate finishing up with our homestudy interviews/visit. I will admit that I am the last person that I ever thought would have a craving for Ethiopian food, but I kept thinking about a lentil sambusa all day (and no, I've already told Sean I'm not pregnant, or at least to my knowledge I'm not). We went back to the Ethiopian restaurant in Raleigh and really enjoyed the food. I've taken quite a liking to Ethiopian food. Ciara really liked the katagna (slightly fried injera, buttered and spiced with berbere) and wanted more after it was all gone. We tried doro wat tonight along with the two lamb wats that we had before. The doro (chicken) wat was super spicy, and Sean loved it. It came with two hard boiled eggs in the middle of it (neither one of us could eat them). There was also a type of Ethiopian cheese on the side. It kind of reminded me of tofu. The owners always take an interest in Ciara, and we hope that we will learn a little more about the Ethiopian culture each time we go. By the way, I'm getting close to mastering tearing off the injera, scooping up the wat, and feeding myself all with my right hand and without touching my mouth. Sean has a way to go :).

We continue to work on our paperwork. Sean's supposed to be writing his letter of repentance for those traffic tickets but is still trying to think of what to say (let's face it, most of us have had one or two). My big task today was to try to work on getting our bank (Wachovia) to issue us a new letter of good standing for all of our accounts. They had already issued us one but it was not notarized. I had read online how this can be an awful ordeal and our representative at Gladney also warned us that many families often run into snags with this bit of paperwork. Thankfully, one of the sweet tellers at the Clayton branch made one phone call to the person who issued the letter initially. They said that they would get it done and notarized today, and we should have it in a few days. I was so thankful and can only say that Wachovia has been super to deal with regarding this letter.

There isn't much else to report except that somehow Ciara thinks her baby sister is in her belly and is going to come out of her belly button. We haven't talked with her at all about where baby's come from, but we do have a dear friend who is due at the end of July. Ciara knows that there is a baby growing in Mrs. Lisa's belly and then jumped to the conclusion that her baby sister is in her belly (yes, it continues to be a sister and now she just thanks Jesus for her baby sister, instead of asking for one) . I've just told her that her baby sister/brother is not in her belly but is in Ethiopia. If any of you have any other words of wisdom--please share them. This is new territory (I was thinking we still had two years or so).