Our New House

Can I tell you a little about our house we're in now? Great. Thanks! It is closer to Wayne's job by about 10 minutes or so and super close to one of the little super markets that we go to to buy food! I like this area better and we are close to a Security Hub, plus, some "important" man apparently lives down our street, so there is alot of armed men walking up and down our road all hours of the night and day, which is really nice to have! This house is situated higher on a hill so it has a nice breeze and it is also situated on a really nice compound, which provides more room for the kids to play outside! Landon has taken up soccer and He, Sydney, Wayne, and the guard play every evening! Landon is quite good, I must say!!! The house inside is quite a bit smaller than the last, but still fine. My favorite part of the house is the big wrap around porch! It is so lovely! We spend most our evenings outside and we also eat dinner outside almost every evening! It has some quest quarters on the compound that occasionally a team will come and stay. It is so fun having teams here from different places. We have one from Texas here now to minister to pregnancy centers about pregnancy prevention, abstinance, and pro-life decisions. It's so fun! It's obviously a huge problem here!
We've been here now for 3 1/2 months and if I wasn't prepared to have a hard time right now with being home-sick, I may have already arranged flights home, but they say if you can make it to 6 months, then we'll be fine! The kids and I were looking thru all our pictures on the computer the other night of friends, family, and house, and they decided they were done here. I wanted to agree, but I know it's far from the truth. We have ALOT to do! I truly like it here, but when Harley, my 4 yr. old asked me if grandma and grandpa were dead because it's been so long since she's seen them, my heart broke! She and my mom are best buddies. Hardly a day goes by that she doesn't ask if we can go to grandma's house.
Although, Wayne's parents were just here for about 2 weeks and we had a lovely time. They were in Kenya for they're 50th church anniversary, so they decided to hop, or fly, over to see us before they continued on the Britain! It was wonderful. We went on a great safari to Murchinson Falls and had a fabulous time. There was a little too much excitement at times, as Wayne's dad had a poisonous snake flopping all over his feet at the poolside at a hotel. I was almost killed by a mama babboon........ok, so she never touched me, but she was chasing me.....and wouldn't you know, as I was running to the truck, the windows were going up and the doors were locking as Wayne was keeping him and the others quite safe in the car.....makes me wonder why he upped my life insurance last month....hmmmm. Finally some nice Ugandan man saved my life while I was a laughing stalk of the crowd that was watching, including the one's in MY truck!!!!!!! Then a HUGE storm came while we were in the back of the safari land, making the roads just a huge mudslide. I think that we were the only people out there and we thought that we may be spending the night with the animals!!! We finally made it back to the ferry, but we were driving thru rivers of water at times. I actually liked the excitement, but Wayne didn't, as he was the driver!!! And the last bit of excitement was when we almost got into a head-on collision with a big truck! It's a miracle that we didn't hit. Wayne ended up having to go on the opposite side of the ditch. It was so scary!!!!
But we made it home safely with lots of stories to tell. Landon says it was a monumental trip for him!!!!

Continuation of Chapter 5

Ok, Ok. I know that time has passed, but you must give me a break, as I've started my job at the International school, plus we have no internet at our new house.....So I guess I'll need to catch you all up!!!
1 1/2 months after we arrived here in Kampala we found out that the house that we were renting, which we knew was temporary, was more, or should I say "less" temporary than we thought and we needed to move out as there was a new family moving in that belonged to the mission that owned it! They had been doing us a favor by letting us stay there, however, we thought we had it until the end of the year. No big deal because the very same day we found out we had to move....GOD brought another house. Furnished and in a safe area. Within 2 weeks we were moved in! Really, moving is much easier when you don't have much to move. Just our clothes and our computer and that was about it!!! This house is much smaller, but still perfect for our scenerio, beings we still don't have any of our furniture or other belongings that are being shipped. We are starting to feel doubtful that we'll even have them before Christmas....so please pray!!! We need to find a house that is more permanent so we can make it our home and hook up internet. The hook-ups are expensive to do unless you plan on staying in the house for awhile! So we'll have to wait for a more permanent situation to set up internet! Thankfully, my job allows me to play on FB and write on here in my "spare" time!!! Some days I have time and some days I don't!!! I am helping in the administration at the school that our kids attend! I only work from 7:30am-12:30pm. It is PERFECT!!! I actually really like it and it has helped me meet alot of other moms!