Enjoyed spotting this rainbow on my drive home from work the other day!
I was just thinking now how there is always a rainbow when there is sunshine and raindrops, but you have to be looking at it from the right direction to see it. It makes me think of our perspectives on things. Sometimes all we see are the dark clouds, sometimes we see the rainbow. But even if we can't see the rainbow, let's remember that it's there.
We've heard about all the freezing weather just northeast of us, but so far it hasn't hit us. Overall, we've had an unusually mild winter.
I was excited to try my hand at making "Pambazos" last week and soon calculated all the costs for a "Pambazo" stand and how much I could make from 40 or 80 pambazos! It's fun to dream!
"Pambazos"
Cook and shred a pound of pork leg. Take the stems off and clean the seeds out of ten guajillo chili peppers (remember to use gloves!). Boil the chiles. While they boil, dice two tomatoes. Shred some lettuce. After the chiles have boiled about 10-15 minutes, blend them with a clove of garlic, and some water. Heat a few cups of oil in a frying pan. Slice several buns in half. Dip them in the chili mixture and then place them in the oil. Fry on all sides. Transfer to a paper towel and then to a plate. Layer the buns with pork, lettuce, tomato, queso fresco (or other cheese), salsa, and sour cream. Enjoy!
At CVE we finally managed to complete our "unanticipated" fire drill in the kitchen.
The ladies did a great job!
We also butchered pigs and are thankful for a freezer full of sausage, pork leg and loin, and bacon!
On a Friday a couple of weeks ago, Bertha gave me another tortilla lesson.
I think I'm getting a little better at it! However, I didn't help make the dough and the next week I tried making them at home and they were a flop. I'll have to try again. Tortillas are a work of art!
Bertha made the fresh homemade tortillas into burros.
One Tuesday, we had Marshall Wulf over and he and I played battleship. He won by one shot! See if you can spy the ship that was left standing.
I gave Miguel a molcajete for Valentine's Day and we enjoyed our first "salsa de molcajete."
Tadeo turned sixteen last week and the USA gave him a wonderful gift, the date for his citizenship appointment! Next month he will be an American citizen and travel with his new family, Adam and Jenna Leman, to Indiana! So proud of my boy!
For the last couple weeks I've been taking Tadeo to see a therapist. I love this saying on her wall!
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day after day."
I look back on the last six years that I have worked with Tadeo and that is what it has been, a long journey, one tiny step at a time. I'll leave you all with the chorus for a song I'm writing...
"And the moments turned to minutes and the minutes turned to hours
And the hours turned to days and years.
And the smiles turn to laughter and the small things turn to big things
that we forever hold dear!"
Also, please pray for our church here. We have been having a service at Denver and Katie Slagel's for the last three weeks and more people have come every Sunday! Praise God! Please pray that we can continue to be a light and that God will speak to each heart what they need to hear.
I am also burdened for several former CVE residents. Please pray that the young adults who grew up at CVE would make good choices and that we would know how to support them!
