Hangin' With The Peeps

HANGIN' WITH THE PEEPS!

No, not the really nasty yellow marshmallow candy you can buy at every CVS for 90% off after Easter.
I always wondered who eats that stuff. I always wonder why they make so much of it every year. It's like fruit cake. Only ten people on the planet eat that stuff.

Anyway - These are the peeps that have made life feel normal when there is no such thing as normal.
These peeps laugh at your really crazy life stuff because they know what you are talking about and chances are something worse happened to them that morning.
It has now become normal that none of their stuff works right either, they never have power, they have gross bathroom stories that they talk about at dinner, they have big dogs, they have scary skins stuff and random sickness just as much as you do, they have the same bugs and rats at their house and don't think it is normal and they always run out of gas right in the middle of cooking dinner.

We can have a laugh attack at things that are not funny and cry so hard we pee our pants.
We can cry together at the drop of a hat on any given day.
If we are stuck on the side of the road with a flat tire we always have someone to call for help.

Soon it will be summer and not all the Peeps will stay. Some will be moving on to new parts of their lives.
Some will be having babies and yet some will stay. This is one of the hardest parts of living in Haiti. You must love deeply to stay and live here, but you must love with the ability to let go and have people in your lives only for a season.
Yet, there is a funny thing that happens here.
It is a cement of sorts. You can't buy it. You can't order it and you sure can't fake it.
It will cost you a lot - trust me!
Sometimes you aren't so willing to pay the price and it makes you crabby, really crabby! You had no idea how much it would cost, neither did they. Some how in the midst of all the crazy stuff, bugs and bathroom stories you become someone different and you know this is now who you are and you can't turn back.

You traded "normal" in a long time ago and in return you get something that will last for eternity - crowns to throw before his thrown.

Thanks, Peeps!