Work and Family Update

The summer holidays are officially over as most of the MAF families that were gone for the summer are back. This has definately lessened our workload and Simon has enjoyed a quieter time of flying. Yesterday he had his base check on the Caravan and passed it...yippee! Another exam done!

We have been working together with the Operations Department to put together a schedule for a friend we have visiting in September. Kami Rice is a freelance journalist. (hope I got that right Kami!) She has been doing some travelling round Africa. She will be making a stop in Uganda for a month to do some work for MAF UK. We have planned for her to visit an IDP camp in Northern Uganda as well as some other partner organisations in the same area. She will travel out west and visit some partners working on the border between Uganda and Congo. We have plans for her to go with Sam from Jesus Film Ministries out to the Islands in Lake Victoria and hopefully we can plan a trip up to Southern Sudan to visit the work of Far Reaching Ministries. We are excited about her trip here and just hope that all the planning goes according to plan. Anything can happen in Africa!!!

Simon and I also had our annual reviews this week with our Programme Manager. It was a good time to touch base with our "boss" and it was a beneficial time for all of us.

I have also been doing the MAF Uganda weekly news report while one of the other wives had been on furlough. It has been fun collecting all the stories and news from each of the departments and gives me a good excuse to find out how folks are doing. I will do this for one more week and then hand it back.

Joshua and Zara have also kept us busy during their school holidays. They start their new school, Rainbow, next Wednesday. At this school they need to wear a uniform which Joshua is excited about. Hopefully it will last. :) Zara also needs to wear a uniform for kindergarten. Thankfully it is a dress so she should be quite excited about it. She loves dresses at the moment. Who knows where she got that love from???

This week we did a family trip to the dentist. Thankfully I had been a couple of months ago so didn't have to go this time (I have quite an aversion to dentists). We had talked about going to the dentist so it wasn't too much of a surprise for Joshua and Zara. Joshua was very excited because the staff always remembers him and gives him a toy. We had practiced before they went that they need to open their mouths as wide as a lion. Joshua had it down pat. He got onto the chair and opened his mouth so wide it almost looked like he had lockjaw. Zara on the other hand was having none of it. I got into the seat and then had her lie down on me but as soon as the dentist came anywhere near her she took off. She had some innoculations at the doctor as well as stitches to her head a couple of months ago and I think she thought there was going to be a repeat of it at the dentist. Hopefully next time it will go better for her. Thankfully we are all healthy in this department and came out smiling especially Zara :)