Choma, Zambia

Most of you know that we have rented a house to stay in for 18 months while we are building the orphanage homes, our house, and the kitchen/dining area. Choma is about an hour from Mapanza, where the orphanage will be. It is a fairly large town that even has a supermarket. We rented the house from some missionaries that left Zambia in December, and they did an amazing job of fixing it up!

Choma is about 3 1/2 hours from the capitol city, so we headed out this morning. We stopped halfway to visit my good friend, Hildah, who teaches preschool at a private school. Her daughter, Laurie, is Cambree's age and they became fast friends. Hildah will eventually be teaching at the orphanage, so Cambree and Laurie will probably grow up together!
Me, Hildah, and Baby Cason

Laurie was jumping up and down telling all of her friends "This is my friend Cambree! She came on an airplane and a car!!"



This is Caedmon and Cambree's room. We brought their special Mama Dee Quilts to make it feel more like home!

The best thing about their room are two closets that are filled with collapsible storage bins for toys, socks, etc.!!! Fabulous space saver!

The comfy living room

Baby Cason's room

Cason is actually sleeping in the bottom of this part of the desk!! It's a long story, but we didn't have room for our playpen so we thought surely we could get one here for a reasonable price--they were $140 to $250, so we thought the desk worked fine :)

This is definitely the nicest kitchen I have seen in Zambia--the cabinets and island are gorgeous!! Makes me want to cook!

If you ask our kids what the best part of our new house is, they would definitely say these cats!! We have never had animals before, and now we have 2 black labs and 2 kittens. This is the baby, who Cambree named Chandler. (not sure why!)

Caedmon is fascinated by the mama cat, who is named Narla, but they call her Nala since they love the Lion King.


After several weeks of living out of luggage, we finally feel settled!! We are ready to get to work and start preparing for our building teams that will start coming in April!