Countdown

Tomorrow William and I will leave the village and beginning three days of travel to head to the USA for two months of re-connecting and support raising. It is amazing to me all that has happened in my just-over-a-year of being in Kenya. Some things that stand out about this last year:

• Getting married!!
• Post Election Violence (with homes in our neighborhood burning down)
• A crazy, scary, car ride through multiple illegal roadblocks on Jan 31 when one of our parliament members was shot to death a few blocks from us
  
• William's alcoholic mother moving in with us for a few months
• William's mother sobering up, giving her life to the Lord, and being baptized!
• Being a suburbia girl suddenly turned farm-girl (yes I know a lot about cows and chickens now!!)
  
• Rolling, and totaling a friend's Land Rover
• Living to tell about the car accident
  
• William changing departments in ministry (He now works in Agricultural Development with our Home Based Care and AIDS patients)
• Starting a new charting system and opening a well baby clinic at the ELI Dispensary
• Rescuing several children who were starving to death
• Losing a few of our clients and attending an AIDS baby's funeral
• Rejoicing that I could hold a 60 second conversation in Swahili with a 5-year-old
  
• Losing my grandmother and not being able to tell her goodbye
• Getting electricity after months of doing without
  
• Encountering some really scary snakes (and also living to tell about it!)
  
• Building our house up around us as we lived in it
• Surviving interesting tropical diseases
• Meeting and making friends with some really special people here in Africa

And many many many many more!!! Stay tuned for the continuing adventures of the Kiprops!