5Crawfords

At the birthplace of Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon. Year two in the UK is going very well – much better than year one, and year one went pretty well! The two major differences this go-around are:  1) Jonah and Graysen are in school, and 2) the boys are signed onto football (soccer) teams. Of course, #1 means that Alisha is no longer home-schooling, and thus has a bit more freedom this year to do things both at home and outside the house.  She is enjoying helping with the Parents and Toddler group at the church, occasionally works in the EMI office, attends all the various school functions for the boys, and keeps up with all the house stuff. Getting ready to Trick-or-Treat after coming up with home- made costumes.  Costumes didn't go over well here as we forgot that Halloween costumes here are judged purely on how scary they are. As One Direction band mates Brodie and Jonah would only be scary if the person answering the door had teenagers. ;) The boys each l...

Overlooking Kampala - even now, it still feels so weird to me sometimes to think that this place was our home...and in many ways still feels like home to this day. Part V of V Days 11-14:  13 th – 17 th September Back in Kampala! There’s so much about this place I love. Yes, it’s a dirty, trafficky, smoggy and crazy busy city, but there’s something about it that is so familiar to me that it feels as much like my home town as any place does at this point in life. The years we spent here will go down as some of the best of our lives, so perhaps I’m a bit prone to viewing it through rose-colored glasses. But the people and familiar places all bring such good memories back that I can’t help but feel at home being here. The 'boda stage' by our house - some of our old boda drivers have moved on to become 'special hire' (car) drivers. The 'Jinja' roundabout - one of the main intersections in town. A panorama of our old compound. I got t...