I'M PACKING FOR UGANDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's so close! I'm so excited!!!!! I can't believe it's actually that time again!
In some aspects this is going to still be a very new experience for me. I have no clue what it is like to return to people who know and love you (although I have heard it's AMAZING.) I don't know what my reunion with Teko Brian will be like, or how I will react when we step off the plane, or even what I am going to want to do first! (Thankfully that part isn't really up to me!) So this will still be rather new to me! All I know for sure is that I am bursting with excitemement and coming apart at the seams thinking about how soon I will be there! Only 17 days until I go back to Uganda and I am SO excited!!! However, I would be lying if I said it isn't bittersweet.
Aimee (the cutest almost 5 year old in the WHOLE WORLD) will be turning 5 without me this year. This is probably the hardest part of leaving this summer. My baby girl is turning 5! It's a big deal! I so wish I could snap my fingers and be here for her party. I am really hoping to skype in for a few minutes to at least tell her happy birthday and remind her that I love her. Aimee, if you ever read this, Lala loves you SOOOOOOO much. To infinity and beyond and back! (haha I win!)
Leaving my baby sister for 6 weeks is also one of the hard things about leaving for so long. Leaving my whole family is going to be hard but there is something extra hard about leaving my baby sister. (ok she is 15...not a baby anymore...but still) My mom and I are extremely close and I will miss her to pieces but I know that I can skype her and she is going to be ok. I know I can skype with my little sister as well but she is 15! You grow and change and go through so much when you're 15 and I hate missing even one second of it! I love and CHERISH our late night talks when she comes into my room just to tell me about a boy, or about something that happened at school, or just to say hi! I can't help but feel like I'm going to come home and she is going to be so different. Still beautiful and wonderful but different. She is going on a mission trip to Costa Rica while I'm gone and I wish I could be here to scratch her back or play with her hair while she tells me all about the things she sees and does. Thank the Lord for technology. Skype will have to do.
My friends. I SOOOOOOOOOO wish they could come with me!!! I just want to pack up everyone I love and take them with me. They would love Uganda! Or at least I like to think they would. :-) Again, I'm so thankful for technology and skype, but 6 weeks is a long time to go without my besties! Luckily, I have some amazing besties and I know that we will talk and I know that they will be here when I get home!
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