Almost done!

Wow how time is flying by!

I cannot believe that I have less than two weeks left here in Iasi.  Even though I am not fond of the city I have grown to love my new home very much and am going to miss it a lot!  This last weekend, December 1st, Romania Celebrated Great Union Day, which is a celebration that marks the unification of several territories in Romania such as Transylvania.  There Great Union Day is like our Independence Day.  On Saturday there were lots of parades and different activities going on the whole day.  Down town there were lots of shops set up for little trinkets and food.  For the past few week they have been setting up lights around the city but none of them where ever turned on at night.  On Saturday at 5pm they had a Christmas lighting where they turned all the lights on at once.  It was fun because we were able to count down, in Romanian, for the lights to come on.  I love Christmas lights and it was so much fun to see all the beautiful lights lining the streets and covering the trees!

These past few weeks as I have been working at the main orphanage building instead of at the apartments, I have been able to go to the children's hospital twice a week to visit any children there that do not have any parents to stay with them.  
The first four times I went there was a little 2-month-old baby there that I was able to hold! He was so tiny and precious, and it broke my heart to know that he did not have a momma to take care of him.  The last day that I was able to visit him before he left the hospital I was able to hold him for about an hour and feed him his bottle.  He was on one of the top floors of the hospital so as I was holding him we were able to watch the sunset!  It was so pretty, and I felt like I was in heaven!  I would have stayed there forever holding him if I could!! Other times as I have gone to the hospital I have been able to see bed ridden kiddos, a little girl with cleft palate, and little boy with a broken arm.  I love being able to go to the hospital and spend time with these kids, but it breaks my heart that they are in there without parents, and that I can't do more for them!

I am loving all the time I can get with my kiddos, even when they are having a crazy day.  I can't blame them though, I would probably be a little crazy too if I had to spend the majority of my day in the same room, every single day!  It is hard to take the kids outside right now because it is so cold!  There was one day where one of the little girls thought it would be funny to give me five stars on my arm, and one of the other little boys came over to me at the same time and bit my leg... haha it is a good thing I love them so much! haha 

Saying goodbye to these kids is probably going to be one of the hardest things I will ever have to do but it helps to know that there will be another group of amazing girls who will come right after Christmas to work with these sweet little orphans!