Love

I have spent two days at Destiny House now and I LOVE it. The children who live in this home are amazing. There are nearly fifteen children aged 3 months to 11 years (I think) and they are so smiley, chatty and friendly (most of the time). The mornings are fairly quiet as the older ones go to school, so I've been spending that time doing puzzles, playing in sand, giving the 3 month old his bottle, wiping snotty noses ... My day to day job at home. The main thing I have been doing is BOMBARDING these children with HUGS and KISSES. Every child was either taken away from their families or abandoned by them and so a lot of them have never been shown love or given attention and I'm learning that sitting and playing with a child is a bit alien to Zulu women. 


The afternoons are a little wild. The school children arrive home and the peaceful house turns into a loud house. I have the girls coming up to me and playing with my hair, the little ones climbing on me demanding cuddles with them saying ''and me''. Yesterday a few of us were playing outside in a small sand area and we all had a lot of fun.


In some of the older ones you can see they've had a troubled up-bringing. They seem to take pleasure in winding the others up and seem to get annoyed quickly if you ask them not to do something, so I'm learning different ways of how to control situations like that. 


Each and everyone of these kids are amazing.