Jeanette’s Here!

     My Sister Jeanette is here for the next 2 weeks. She was scheduled to arrive at 11am on the 26 of Feb. So that morning I woke up full of excitement at seeing a family member for the first time in 14 months. I awoke with a sinus infection that I knew I needed to get antibiotics for, but was willing to wait until after I picked up Jeanette. I cleaned my house, made the bed for her, washed the cat (she’s allergic) then made sure I had whole milk for her coffee, etc. I live just 7 minutes from the airport and I can here when the planes land and take off. I figured if I wait to for the plane to land then drive there, she will be thru customs and have her bags. Well I was wrong. 

     I arrived at the airport at ten after 11 and realized I never heard the plane land at all, I imagined it in all my excitement. So i went to 4 desks to find out when the delayed plane would be landing and in typical 3rd world coutry style, nobody had an answer. About 45 minutes later as I was waiting outside to watch the plane land, it started to rain, hard, don’t you know I had left my windows open at the house because when I left the skies were clear. So now, I have no idea when the plane is going to land and I begin to pray for safety in the storm. It stopped raining and now I was hungry because my thought was to eat light, pick up Jeantte, get her a real Swazi meal, buy meds go to bed. Well her plane had still not arrived and it was half past 12, so I bought a greasy chicken mush thing in a flaky bread. Not good on an empty stomach, but it was that or chips. At 1pm the plane finally landed and by 1:30 we were back at my house.

      We just put all Jeanette’s stuff away and she said she would come to town with me to get my medicine, so we leave everything in the house, yes everything, including the keys to get back in. So now we are locked out of the house on her first night in  Swaziland. I have never locked my keys in before, so I blame the sinus infection, excitement and distraction on the mishap. Well I’m freaking out now and I have no idea what to do. We go to town as planned and thank God, one of  the Swazi workers is in the office, a guy who gets things done. I tried to call him on the way as he was the only option of who would help me find a locksmith in Swaziland. He took us to a shop and the guy said it would cost such and such an amount, I had to pick him up at 4 when he could be relieved from his post. I live 20 mins from this shop so I pick him up, we go back and Praise the Lord, opens my door. He charges me 25% less than he quoted me, another blessing, then we drive back to town, it takes us 45 minutes because it’s rush hour. My sister stayed in the house and cooked us dinner, bless her soul for that, I got home famished, tired, and ready for bed. So i took my medicine and went to bed at 8. Or at least that was the plan. I guess the meds had some caffeine or something in them that keep me awake, I was up all night and overslept my alarm.

     I figure God must have big plans for us, seeing as we started out so rocky in the beginning.