For Mrs. Pat & Mrs. Rosemary

(remember~my comma button doesn't work!)

The three big kids are participating in a Missions Fair next week. They will research a country~learn all about it (hopefully)~and then research a missionary who lives/lived in that country. Then they will make a big display and cook a food local to that country. We all go around and look at the projects (like a science fair) and then taste all the different foods. Its really fun.

Tyler~being the sensible child that he is quickly choose China. He had just finished a book about Hudson Taylor so this was a no-brainer for him. And China~easy to find info on.

Matt~hee-hawed back and forth about countries. Because you know he can't just pick a known country like everyone else. He wants to be different! He wants to have the most incredible project ever completed in the history of Missions Fairs! He wants all the world to love his chosen country as much as he does and see how exciting his chosen country can be!

So I spread out a huge world map on the table and told him he had to make a decision before supper. He poured over that map and studied and studied it. He finally made a decision.

Cameroon.

Nothing personal against Cameroon but there is just not a whole lot of info out there (especially in Bham) about Cameroon. At our library we found one book about Cameroon and we were thrilled to get it. We have researched missionaries in Cameroon and so far found none. I know there has/had to be one ~so we are going to keep on internet looking.

Matt and Abbie decided to work on Cameroon together~with Matt being the leader of the project and Abbie being his assistant. Together they had this great idea to dress James up in traditional Cameroonian garb and display him beside their project. Yes~they wanted to stand him by their table~all dressed up~make him stand still~and let people walk by and look at him. I did not put a total NO on the idea because I thought James might like to dress up but I was not going to make him stand there for hours by their project.

Tuesday night Matt and Abbie were sitting on the couch looking through their Cameroon book together. It was so sweet and they were not arguing and I was pretty sure the end of times was at hand~but it was nice so I just enjoyed it. Abbie suddenly yells real loud

"Mom~we will need to paint James brown so he will look just like a little Cameroon boy!!!!"

Maybe I need to nix the project right now.