Hello. It has been a long time since I've blogged, but not much has been happening. On Saturday Debra threw a baby shower for me (and Noah) so I can blog about that! It was a lot of fun and she made it special for me. Almost all of the attendees were from Awali church here in Bahrain except for my friend Farzana, Taylor's friend Ola, her sister Mariam and mother Iman. I have never met Iman before so it was nice to meet her. She is so short and when I wanted to take her picture she insisted on putting on her shoes first. Very cute. She is really sweet and now I know where Ola gets it. We played pictionary too, and all the items were related to what you do to babies. It was funny to see what some people drew. See if you can guess what this picture is of. Sally was especially good at guessing. Good thing she was on my team. Speaking of Sally, she is British but lived in South Africa for several years, met and married her husband and had children there. When she was 8 months pregnant with her last, her friends threw her a shower. She arrived in a dress and they made her take it off and wrapped her in a large towel that looked like a giant diaper (nappy for you non-Americans). She was so embarrassed to be sitting there in only that in front of her mother-in-law, mentor, people from church, etc. She said to be glad that I don't live in South Africa! I am rather thankful actually.

Debra also passed around a blessing box, which I have never heard of. Everyone wrote a prayer or note of encouragement on a card and put it in the blessing box for me and Noah. Very sweet idea. I haven't read those yet, I think I will do that right after this blog...