Tuesday, 10 February 2009

• off to india

  so tomorrow shomik and i are off to india.
  
  i haven't mentioned it on the blog, because last time i blogged i had no idea we were going!
  
  we were planning to go in the summer, but due to some changes in my husband's job, we found out we would either have to take a quick trip now, or else wait another year...
  since it's already been almost 2 years since we saw my husband's family we decided it was important to try and go now...even though that meant stressfully throwing together a last minute trip!
  
  i'm excited. or i know i will be once i'm on the plane tomorrow. we've been so busy that it's been hard to think about it enough to get too excited yet. it still doesn't seem possible that we're going!
  
  i'm looking forward to seeing my inlaws.
  
  we try hard to make a point of communicating with them regularly, but still it's hard sometimes to build the depth of relationship that you'd like to from the other side of the world. so i'm hoping to really make the most of this time we'll have with them.
  
  one neat thing i'm looking forward to is visiting a child my family sponsors through mission of mercy.
  
  actually this summer my dad had started sponsoring this child that lives in the slums of mumbai named abhishek. he chose him from among dozens of pictures of children because he thought he looked like a young version of shomik!
  
  he was excited for us to see the picture...and it's true...there's a resemblance.
  i had mentioned to my dad that maybe sometime when we're in india we could all meet abhishek, and he had seemed to like that idea.
  
  so i would have made a point to meet little abhishek even if all these events of the past few months hadn't taken place...but now that will mean something extra special to me.
  
  i love being able to do things that i know would make my dad extra happy.
  also those children who grow up in the slums have a special place in my heart. it's hard for me to spend much time in india with my eyes open without my heart being broken in that regard.
  
  so be praying for us. i'm sure now that mumbai has been through the ringer it's probably safer now than it has been in years, but i know that the recent terrorist attacks are still on people's minds.
  
  also we'll be having to deal with a few challenges possibly while we're there, so just be praying that the whole trip will be covered in blessing.
  
  hopefully i'll get a chance to throw out a blog or two from india...
  but now i should wrap this up because i still have a million and one things to do before take off!
  
  
  

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