this precious life.

This little stinker turned 3 while I was in Uganda!! She has so much personality in such a little body and it keeps me laughing everyday:) I took her outside to play the other day and snapped a few images I thought I'd share:) p.s. this is what you get when you hand said 3 year old the camera:) imagine her little muscles straining to hold it up to her eye... I wish I could have gotten a picture of that!

It didn't take me long to start working on creative projects once I got home & I am *loving* how this easy-peasy refashion turned out! When Eleanna & I see each other, we will sometimes give each other a bag of clothes that didn't work for us... thinking that the other person might be able to wear it better... and that's how I acquired this dress. Both Eleanna & her sister Susannah had loved it but it just didn't fit either of them well and they thought it might work for me since I'm shorter. When it fit me just as awkwardly, I decided that it was time to alter it since the problem was obviously with the dress! This was the easiest refashion I've ever done! AllI had to do was rip out the stitches to detach the top portion from the skirt, shorten the zipper and then stitch the waist closed. I thought about taking it in to make it high waisted but then realized that by leaving it as is, I could have the best of both worlds! It fits perfectly on my...

One day during our first week, 7 of us piled African style into the pick-up truck to drive to Ngora {about 1 1/2 hrs. away} to visit an old friend of the H.I.S. team. Papa Alfred, Mama Carney, Evelyn & Uncle Meredith have known Margaret for 30 years and Eleanna & I were looking forward to meeting her after hearing so much about her! We headed out of town mid-morning... 3 in the front, 4 in the back of the small double cab. As we drove out of town, there was a man taking his eggs to market piled on his bike. For some reason he had a 4-5 foot pole strapped horizontally on the bike which Uncle Meredith, who was driving, didn’t see. *BOOM*  We hit it & he crashed. Thankfully he wasn’t hurt & only some of his eggs were broken but immediately a crowd began to gather. We stopped & backed up but since it wasn’t a good idea for him to see that it was mzungus in the car, we sent Florence out to make a deal with him {so thankful she was with us!!}. The crowd started “c...