okay, fast typhoon update . . . 

thankfully, the typhoon was a bust. even for a tropical storm it was a bust.  

all typhoons should be so gentle, although at last count it was reported that 21 people here did lose their lives in flooding.  i thank you all so much for your prayers for me, and please remember those poor folks and the people who love and miss them.

we got a couple of days of rain, no wind, no big deal. sooooo thankful.

isabell took these photos down near manila, showing a little of what the water does here.

i am sooooooo very much missing our beautiful katherine kaiser, who was doing a hunger program internship at the birth home.  she left yesterday to return to her family in south carolina and soon to her classmates at wheaton college in illinois.

i can't tell you how wonderful and dear she is to me.  here she is snuggling with our newest baby, isiah.

katherine loves those babies as much as i do, and we spent lots of hours smuggling a couple over to our apartment for hugs and kisses.

this is a beautiful photo that she took of the floodway in pasig, down in metro manila.

this is going to be a brief post, but i did want to let you know we are all safe and sound after the storm.  you can't probably imagine how much it meant to have so many of you checking in before, during and after.  it makes me appreciate you all and miss you all the more for your caring and good friendship.

in closing, here is the motley crew at the latest adoption celebration.

and y'all know how much i'm missing this cutie pie!

i've been on some fabulous adventures, and i will work hard on getting some of those photos up here for you shortly.  i'm mortified that i only posted once in november, what the what???!

love you all and miss you gobs!!!

xoxo  jo