Happy New Year!!!

It is hard to believe that it is really 2010! It has been a few weeks since I have written because life has been rather busy around here.

Christmas was nice though very different from what I am used to in America. Not all the hype and fuss leading up to Christmas, just simple celebrations, a few decorations, a gift or two, and “special” food. For our family, the special food consisted of hamburgers and hotdogs! Sounds funny I know but when we asked the kids what kind of special meat they wanted to eat, they quickly answered “hot dogs!” Here in Rwanda meat is pretty expensive and hot dogs are especially expensive. We don’t get to eat meat often so when we do it is a special thing for us and especially for the kids.

Much of our time on and around Christmas was spent cleaning and packing up all our belongings. We moved into our new house on the 28^th. What a day that was! Not only did we move all of our things to our new house, we moved the Remember Me Boys’ Home here to Kanombe! They are now living in our old house. So it was a long day and a lot of work but it is really nice to have the boys’ close by now.

Things have been sort of in upheaval since the move because we moved into a house that is not finished. So we moved our things temporarily into the areas of the house that are ready and are waiting for the rest to be done. The last few days have been kind of like camping! Good things I always liked camping J.