Hoodaha

     I wanted to post and tell you all how much I miss you.  As I have said a few times before –this has been a very very difficult summer. I think that when I’m at home I usually rely on my friends for the majority of my support.  I go to them when I’m sad, or happy, or scared.  I wanted to say how much this trip has made me appreciate every single one of you.  Thank you for your amazing support in the letters you sent with me, and the letters you are sending me through e-mails.  I am praying for you.  Whether you are in Georgia working at a summer camp, in Jersey working at Ritas, in Walhalla working at Itron, as a lifeguard in your country club, getting a great tan in Clemson, or in another country in Africa- I love you. I miss you. I am praying for you.

     Even though this summer has allowed me to better appreciate my friendships, it has really opened my eyes to how important my family is to me.  Now, we’ve definitely had our issues.  Yelling over the dinner table when my parents told me I couldn’t get my bellybutton pierced, bickering over clothes with my sister, arguing in the backseat of our van with my brother on our summer vacation, none of us have been perfect.  However the pain I feel when I think about each one of you is way more than being homesick.  Mom, Dad, Mackenzie, Charles, Gramma, Papa, Shannon…if I think about any one of you in the slightest my eyes fill with tears.  I can not wait until I can be home to hug each and every one of you

Please be praying for Mama Dudu.  I think that everyone who has come into this house (except for me) has Malaria.  Right now, Mama Dudu is on a drip and is extremely weak.  I know it took her feeling close to dead to get her to go to the hospital.  With the exception of my real mother she is the hardest working woman I know and it's killing her to have to lay in bed all day.  I've been working extra hard on cooking, laundry, cleaning, and beating the children (just kidding) because she can't.  It's such a devistating disease becuase it's so easily  prevented with some really cheap prescriptions.