Watt 4!

The page about the four Watts.

Winter Time at the Watts

During the month of May we travelled to Israel for a family reunion. I have not been home for 11 years, and my family there had not yet met our 2 boys. It was also my Dad’s 60^th birthday party; it was a very special time for me. Two of my sisters live in Israel on the kibbutz where we all grew up and my Dad has been living there since he was 13 years old. My Mum and my other sister travelled from the UK. Altogether with all the children and grandchildren we were 19 people; it was busy!!

Both Charlie & I were looking forward to the break. As much as we love our work here, it often gets stressful and frustrating, so a break for 5 weeks was very welcome. Nevertheless resting was not on the agenda with two little boys, ( Joel at one year and Sammy at two and a half)! Although we often wanted to shut our eyes for a few minutes, things were on the go all the time, but it was good to have time with the boys and with my family.

In the Jewish tradition, every Friday night there is a big meal to welcome the Sabbath. Here as you can see it is all my (Sharonne) family (without the little ones as they were asleep) having  a Friday dinner together.

Joel & Sammy

Joel has a fearless character! Everything that he is not supposed to do he wants to do, and everything that his big brother does he follows!! At times we have to say NO to him; instead of looking full of respect and fear he laughs at us!! I can see that life will not have a dull moment with Joel. He walks and is trying to talk, but mostly it is animal sounds that he likes to imitate, especially the lion and the tiger!!

Joel is thinking about a quick swim in the sea of Galilee  

Sammy is more settled at nursery, and seems to cry less for mummy when it is time for goodbyes. He does talk well and we can communicate well with him, he seems to be growing fast and his favourite books are Hairy McClary from Donaldson’s Dairy!!

Sammy loves swimming, here in the sea of Galilee with Yossi (my sister Mor’s boyfriend).  

Life in Zambia.

Charlie always seems to be busy with preparing for the next lesson, trying to get connected to the world on the internet, and supervising the works at the workshop.

As for me it is the usual juggling between being mum, administrator and wife, like most mothers in the world, but I love it and I love my family and I love my work.

In the past few weeks we have started worshiping in the morning with a group of other expats and missionaries. It is something that we longed for, to be able to worship God and hear his word as we know. We love the African churches but so often the preaching is in the African style which we find a little difficult.

Also the boys are able to go to a good Sunday school and we (Charlie & I) are given the opportunity to sit and listen to the preaching. Which is a great blessing, as we were not able to do so before.

During our time in Israel, it was the 58^th celebration of independent day. In Israel everyone has a Braai (BBQ) with their families and hangs out the Israeli flag everywhere. We were no exception, stuffing our faces with good Israeli food!!!