crazy

I've had lots of ideas of things to write about, but things have been rather crazy. Justin's mom had surgery on Monday, and we've been back and forth from the hospital two hours away to help take care of her. She's recovering nicely, and has family with her to make sure she's getting everything she needs. She will be back home in a couple days.

Other than that, Justin and I have been both substitute teaching around town, and I've been teaching drum line to middle school kids. Juma's been rocking the house in school, and the weather reached over 100 degrees today. Tomorrow we are having an early birthday party for Juma. (He calls it his "pretend birthday" or "fake birthday.") Because his birthday is in the summer, we've never been able to have a school-friend birthday (and, in fact, he's never had a birthday party at home--we've always been traveling). We thought we'd make up for it this year by throwing a regular old birthday party where he invites his cousins and friends and no one speaks Swahili the whole time.