We Are Family
Note: So I had a little mishap- for all of you wondering about The Miracle Foundation, the website is www.miraclefoundation.org (not com). Woops!
So, I have officially reached day 14 of my trip here in India. 2 weeks- woa! I have seen, heard and experienced so many things- it might take my senses a bit to catch up. I have spent the last few days at Sooch doing miscellaneous things to send back to America. A few movies, too many (never too many) pictures, emails etc etc etc.
As I was walking around yesterday, meandering from house to house, I noticed one thing I really couldn’t- and probably won’t- get over. All of the children here are simply children, not orphans. I am not just saying that either. It is CRAZY to me how I all so often, usually always, forget that I am at an orphanage. It seems like I’m in a big house with 100 members of my family.
The children simply run around like they are chasing brothers and sisters. The house mom’s love these kids so much you would think they gave birth to all 10 in their house- ow. As I walked in to a house yesterday and saw all the kids so happily obeying the mom, as she handed out rice for lunch, I thought “geeze, what a life.” These kids have received so, SO much that you don’t even realize where you are.
Later in the evening as the children were starting to head to bed, some of the house mothers came to pick up the goods all the cottages need for the month. Shoe polish, soap, shampoo, toothpaste, floor cleaner- etc etc etc. Basically coming to the local grocery store to get all the home necessities. I was standing there and thought about how insanely clean this place is. No smells, no bugs, no stains. They do an incredible job at keeping it looking brand new.
As I have said many times, the Chapati making is probably one of my favorite parts of the day. Whenever the sun goes down I run over to the hut. I don’t even talk most of the time (unless I’m trying to explain something in English) but listen. They gossip, laugh and sing like 12 sisters at a family reunion. There is SO much love here. I have never once seems anyone bicker, fight, turn a back, or even just not do something someone asked of them. If one asks for a cup of water, a pan or a piece of wood- it would be there in a matter moments.
Anyway, just something that I can’t get over. At all. I knew this place was incredible but it really is unreal to me how you can so easily forget where you are.
With that, I am off to make chapatis. MUCH love from India,
Katelyn
