Don’t know what you got….

…’till it’s gone. I know I’m going to get to Uganda, with the slowest internet connection in the world, and want desperately to update this blog. And yet, here I am soaking up highspeed, yet I haven’t updated this thang since March 30th! Oye. Anyway, lots of packing the last few days (or, to be honest, yesterday). Same story  — I don’t get motivated until the last minute when a burst of stress and immediacy prompts me to get things done. I am my father’s daughter. Speaking of daughters, I’m going to miss everyone terribly, but it will especially be hard to leave Tennyson, mainly because babies grow so darn fast. We were looking at pictures of her when she was three months old and she looks entirely different. A whole new set of skills, a whole new curiosity (instatiable!), lighter hair, bluer eyes. We all predict that she will be walking when I return from Uganda. Walking! That’s what real humans do! And then she’ll start speaking and driving a car and dating boys and that’s the end of childhood. Babies are so sweet, even Tennyson so is a sour apple sometimes. But even when she is sour she is sweet. Anyway, I will blog more reflectively later today/tomorrow. I fly out on Saturday and arrive in Uganda on Sunday. I will be in the air a total of 24 hours, due to all of the layovers. Not really interested in that. But I AM interested in sinking my teeth into a delicious Ugandan pineapple. The best in the world!