33 Weeks

Today, you are 33 weeks. I have a thing for the number 3 I will not drag you into how divine and biblical I think t it is because your mother will probably tell me to cut the jargon out. However, I long for the day you will not just be weeks, but a month and then a year and then you will 3 and 13 and then 23- then you will stop growing. You should stay 23 then just one year older every year like Simon Webbe's "Seventeen".

You will find life to be funny, some days it will annoy you, but most of all depending on how you allow yourself to look at things, life will make you laugh. You may find people strange - we are a strange species, yet we are also very special. We have the capacity to do anything and everything; it starts with  having confidence in self, that being inside you that is more than the body you walk around in. You are more spirit than you are body -this does not mean you should not take care of your body. I want to say that you should keep that waist line and the butt like your mother, but she reminds me that you are not a girl or boy you are her child. So I will say remember to take care of your body, fat is an evil thing - so easy to gain and hard to lose. Ask me, I know this too well. So do not listen when Grandmother fills your plate three times a day, or when at 13 you think 'Nandos' "I feel like chicken tonight'  "blue Mango' and all the fast food places around you are cool hangout zones.

Your mother and I love Indian food and wherever you end up with her  taking you all over the world, remember that Uganda has some of the best Indian restaurants. We also love Traditional Ugandan food and have many a time eaten ourselves silly at restaurants in Kampala- this food my dear you can eat to your hearts content; the secret is in the Banana Leaves. Do not forget the passion fruit juice!I like to think its what makes Ugandans passionate beings.

I hope that you will be a resilient child, like your mother. This woman has not lost zeal or lost her insomnia during pregnancy, she just keeps going. Remember there is method in it, you have to master and maximize your strengths too. As I write this, it is late I have worked all week and still have no sleep- trust me am not on drugs nor have I had more than one red-bull this week. Its the time of my life, when I do not want to miss out on my story so am living every moment of it and not allowing sleep to take it away from me  ( now I sound strange, huh?) So I might as well just head to bed and hope that you will be here in a few weeks!