A Quiet Week

         It has been a quiet week at Cornerstone.  This can very rarely be said, with Cornerstone’s 30 children and 18 staff members and a neighborhood full of cows, goats, chickens…and other children, of course.  This last Monday, 26 of the 30 children left to go stay further out in the village with their clans.  They go as part of a government requirement that they spend 5 days with extended families during each school break.  Most of the kids were excited to go and see their friends and family but I have been feeling lonely without all the children and activity at the orphanage.  There IS such a thing as having too much quiet!

         Natasha, Vanessa, Isaac and Moses, however, have been around to help keep me occupied!  They are the only 4 children who have nobody in the village to go and stay with.  So, they have been getting to stay with Pastor Rogers, which is a special thing in itself.  They are allowed to stay up later than their normal bedtime, and can watch as much television as they want!  How much more exciting can things get when you’re a kid, right?  Plus, my mom and I had all 4 come and stay at our house last night and eat scrambled eggs, “sausage,” fruit salad and toast (I have to put quotations around sausage, because after all, it is Uganda), and of course, eat American pancakes this morning.  We played Candy Land, built Lego creations, watched a few episodes of Mickey Mouse cartoons, and ate bakery “mistakes” (cupcakes that are scarred by the oven rack or slightly burned on one part).  What a fun time it was together, and I can’t wait to see the other 26 come home tomorrow!  

A picture taken last week of Christine and Natasha being goofy :)