New friends...

Introducing...Tito, Nama & baby Grace. These are some of our new friends here in Tanzania. (We referenced them in our blog titled 'Introspection on life...') Last Wednesday they had us over for lunch (which Tito helped cook...which was very surprising...for the most part cooking is done by the women here, so Tito helping to prepare/cook lunch was quite unusual - he said he doens't like all the traditions, such as the one that says only women cook, so he doesn't follow them) and then we spent the rest of their day going to visit his mother and little brother in the village where they live (it's tucked up in the mountains about 45 minutes from where we live...beautiful surroundings) and going to a local market near his mother's home. It was great hanging out with them, getting to know them and holding their beautiful baby girl, Grace, who Baba (Daddy) Tito is sooooo proud of. Yet again, we were amazed at their generosity and the joy/excitement with which they shared their food with us...amazing and humbling all at once. Walking through the market together later in the day was quite the site, as on top of the 'white-factor,' Tito & I both were carrying our baby girls (me - Jadyn, Tito - Grace). Again, this is something that traditionally is the women's role, so seeing 2 men carrying babies was quite the oddity here. (This is another tradition Tito said he doesn't like.) At the end of the day, Tito took us to see the bed he's having built, which is only worked on as he gets money to pay the carpenter to build. I've never seen someone soooo excited about a bed before. Yet another thing that I've never really thought that much about...cool to get a new one and all, but not something I'd be jumping up and down about, anxiously showing my friends. Yet another reminder of how much we've been given. "Thank you God for Your exceedingly abundant provision in our lives"...we find ourselves telling Him this more and more every day. We look forward to many more adventures with Tito, Nama & Grace! They have such joy for life, despite what we would look at as living in a 'destitute situation.' Makes one wonder about how we define the 'good life'...