Well, it has been a very interesting week or so.. This is gonna be a long blog….so get comfortable.
First let me tell you that we have 4 new additions to our orphanage family. Last Tuesday afternoon Denisa who is 11, Larisa who is 9, Razvan who is 6 and Alexandra who will be 3 in March joined our family. I won’t go into many details except to say that their mother abandoned them last year and their father has been trying to care for them properly. However he has gotten to the end of his rope.
Denisa (with the yellow head band)
Larisa
Razvan
Alexandra
Tuesday was spent doing the normal “washing up” of the kids and Wednesday they were beginning to get settled in. You can imagine the extra work and effort it takes to get four new kids used to our house and the rules that we have, but the Lord is helping. Please pray for the ladies and I as we try to educate these children. So my afternoons are now filled with 10 “little ones” 
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Most of the kids playing together at my house.
Well, Alexandra had started coughing on Saturday and by Sunday morning during church she was coughing much more frequently and just didn’t seem her self. S0 I took a listen to her lungs and decided it would be best to take her to the E.R. So right after church (Eva, Alexandra and I still in our church clothes) drove to the Children’s Hospital in Oradea and they decided to admit her. He x-ray later showed that she had pneumonia. Well, I have been at the hospital up until this evening.
Eva and I discussed it and we felt the best thing would be for me to stay Sunday and Monday evening and then she come to relieve me on Tuesday. However there was a tragedy in Eva’s family (a close family members house was destroyed in a fire Monday evening) so Eva was not able to come until this afternoon.
Thankfully, someone was coming to the city on Sunday evening and they were able to bring me my pajamas and a robe. The hospital is very strict about not letting the people who stay at the hospital in street clothes.
Alexandra received her first ever teddy bear.
Thank the Lord we got a private room, with our own bathroom. She had a crib and I had a bed. (With Marius there were 4 people sharing the bathroom and there were 2 other kids in the room with him and we had to share the bed with him.)
So for the past three days I didn’t leave the hospital, and hardly left the room. (they don’t allow the patients to walk in the hallways) and never left this little girl’s side.
Can you imagine how much this little girl is suffering? First her mommy left her, then she had to say goodbye to her daddy just last week, get used to a new environment and now she is sick in the hospital.
At the hospital there were times that she would get a sad look on her face and big tears would roll down her cheeks and she would just start to cry. I would ask her if anything hurt, (no) if she was hungry (no), if she was tired (no) and she would just cry, so I would hold her and sing to her and wait for it to pass. She would tell me stories (in her limited vocabulary) about some of the things that happened at home and I can’t even begin to tell you how much this little girl has suffered. I have to say I have never met a more serious child in my whole life. So, when you get a smile out of this little girl, it’s special.
The plans are to keep Alexandra until Monday, unless she shows signs of great improvement. It seems she has had a problem with her lungs for some time. So please pray for her and please pray for all of us that God would help us, give us strength and wisdom as we work with Alexandra and with her 3 siblings.