You will have to forgive the long absence from the
blogosphere, but I believe I have a pretty legitimate excuse. On October 5
th,
we welcomed Beau William to the Fujiwara family. At 8 pounds and 7 ounces, he
was a healthy baby, despite some complications with the birth which I will let
Rachael describe in her own post. Thank you so much for your prayers and words
of congratulations. We could not be happier to be together as a family and have
some very special time with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousin and friends. We
are blessed to be able to culminate this time at home with Thanksgiving,
because certainly there is so much to be thankful for. We will then head back
to Rwanda on December 1
st. We are a little anxious to travel back
with our infant son, however, we are excited to trust God in everything and to
have this special time with Beau in Rwanda (my boss, Erisa, has given him the
Kinyarwanda name Shema, which means one who brings pride). We are also very
excited to get back to a place that we can call home. It has been an
overwhelming and incredible blessing to be hosted by our families while in the
States, but I look forward to putting the days of living out of a suitcase
behind us. While we are also sad to not spend another Christmas with family, we
are glad that we will get to spend it with our dear friends in Rwanda.
Even though we have now lived in Rwanda for almost a year
and a half, returning there will be a whole new experience. We not only return
with a third person in our party, but Rach will be going back to a house that
she has never lived in. I had to move us into our new house after she left to
prepare for the final stage of childbirth. Hopefully, it doesn’t have too
strong of a “bachelor pad” appearance to it. Despite working remotely, I’m sure
I will have a long list of things that I need to catch up on at the office. I
hope to use what is a quiet December and January to prepare for a busy spring. As
a Rwanda office we are looking to add more staff and bring more standardization
and quality measurement to the program. We want to say thank you again for all
the support and Happy Holidays.
