Quarantine

Ava under the weather...

The Kenny home has become a little sick ward this past week, as all three kids have stayed home from school with fevers and fatigue. They've been to the hospital for tests, but it just seems to be some sort of virus going around. Poor Ava has become a bit of a rag doll, but today she seemed to turn a bit of a corner. Emma was well enough to go back to Rosslyn Academy today and we are praying that they'll all be well enough to return to school on Monday.

It has ended up being a good week to catch on reports and work at home in the office. A big part of our new responsibilities involves reviewing progress reports, financial statements and proposals. During the kids better moments they were interested in "comfort" things -- we ate soup, watched old 1980s TV shows, played cards, and even started making our annual Christmas wrapping paper. Today Erica and Tristan sat at the dining room table listening to Michael W. Smith Christmas music and drawing snowman on wrapping paper.

The power has been flickering on and off lately with sudden high winds and thunder storms sweeping in and out of the city. Another comfort thing has been lighting candles and wrapping up in blankets together. We had our friend Atalie over for supper tonight and had a bit of a challenge with wet candles. The power had gone off this afternoon and one of the kids had accidentally left the kitchen faucet open (with the power off the tap was dry). While Erica was gone to school to pick up Emma, I took Tristan and Ava to nearby store to grab some groceries. While we were gone, the power came on and the water started to gush flooding the kitchen. Wouldn't you know that when we got back and started the clean up the power went off again. The wet candles from under our sink were tricky to start!

On the fivekennys podcast this week we have a short audio interview with Isaie Gakwerere, the Guardians of Hope program manager in Rwanda. You can download this and all of our audio interviews on iTunes or directly from our podcast site at www.fivekennys.podbean.com