Little bits of the Day

Yesterday late afternoon I went and sat down in the sitting room and in just a few minuets my lap was filled with three children who were soon fast asleep, and there they naped for an hour till it was dinner time, while another child sat in another chair and visited with me. When it was time to eat, one child woke up with my pants imprinted on thier face, my front was covered in sweat from the child right on top of me and my arm was covered in drool from the third child. It was quite the nap time!!

Today I took 7 boys for a walk. One of them yesterday decided that we sould walk to Kenya. So off we went. We ended up walking to a golf course, and on our way we came to thousands upon thousands of bats flying overhead and covering the trees. And then we came to four cows on the green, and later some goats. There was also a section of power lines down on the road that we just walked around and by for quite some time. Only in Africa is a walk like that normal.

My Day

So a general day for me looks like:
5am The kids get up
7:30am Sharye and Jessica get up and have coffee in bed

The rest of the day is filled with:
Letting the kids hang on me
Plyaing cards
Maybe play some soccer
Take some kids for a walk to the river
Sit and let the kids pile in my lap
At some point some child will come crash into me with a fever and they just need a bit of cuddle time
Maybe walk some kids to the clinic

Kids dinner is at 6
Meds are passed out to all kids at 7
Kids go to bed
Adults eat dinner
Watch a movie
Go to bed

A Hop Skip and a Jump to Africa Again

Life is funny, one minuet I am sitting at home wondering what to do with my life, and in the space of three days I packed myself up to head off to Africa. Well not Africa directly, first I visited my friend for a week, and now the two of us are off to Uganda in two days. Sadly I am going under unfortunate events. A friend of mine has become sick and needs to return to North America for treatment. The only hitch is that she has an orphanage. So there are three of us; one American, one Canadian, and one Ugandan, who are stepping in to run things while she is gone. My ticket takes me there for six weeks, we are hoping that in that amount of time Holly is recovered and ready to work again.

Although it is bad circumstances that is take me there, I am really excited. I love Uganda, and I am very ready to go and spend more time there. I have also always, for as long as I can remember, wanted to work in and orphanage. I went through many years of being chagrined as to the fact that the US does not have orphanages for me to work in. So now here I am about to fulfill one more of my life ambitions…and I get to go to Uganda to do it.