Good firsts

We are up early this morning so we can begin our packing for the long journey home. I look forward to getting back, but I also find myself more unsettled than normal to leave. Several of the things we have been working on are incomplete and its difficult to leave things "unfinished." But it's not just the projects, the people here are family. The children are our kids and the adults are our brothers and sisters. Uganda has truly become a second home for us and we love spending part of our lives here.

This is our third year to come to Uganda, and I was thinking last night of a few first time experiences we had this year (we still have about 14 hours until we leave so anything could happen).

This is the first year:

1. I have not agonized over Perez. It has been awesome having him here with us as our son rather than us as his sponsor.
2. We did not stay in a hotel. There is now a 3 bedroom apartment on the school campus and we stayed there. It is great to be with the kids from early morning to late night. We especially had fun throwing small parties each night for many of the kids.
3. I have not fallen deathly ill on the last day of our trip.
4. We have not been involved in a traffic accident.
5. We had good and fairly stable internet connections to keep this blog alive.

Thanks for thinking of us, supporting us and reading our ponderings over the past three weeks. We will share more on this site in the days to come, until then, from Uganda with love, Steve