We had a lot of fun today.  We phoned Joseph this morning and asked him to come in to work.  He's on vacation so he really does not have to be here.  But he came.  And we had a nice family breakfast together.  

Then later on the finest seamstress in the entire Kom tribe showed up to discuss uniforms with us.  We laughed a lot.  Mostly at Doris.  She was very particular.  Dorothy kept reminding her that these are work uniforms.  I told them we are going to have to raise our rates now that we are getting so fancy.  Theirry came back from school in the middle of everything and asked if he would be getting a uniform, too.  I reminded him that he is family but not an employee.  Sad but true.  

The gals each get two skirts and one blouse.  Why two skirts is beyond me, but my voice was drowned out.  And they each get a dress.  A great deal of discussion went into picking out the styles of everything.  Each item for each person had to be unique.  Then it was the guys turn.  They actually took a good bit of time talking over shirt styles.  And they too had to be unique.  Slacks were slacks.  Fortunately they did not generate much discussion.  Finally, finally, finally, everybody had been measured and everything was written down.  All details were finalized and everybody was happy.  

The seamstress is soooo glad to finally have work to do.  She fled the war in her village five months ago and has been trying to find a way to live.  Fortunately she has a brother in town, so she has a roof over her head and food to eat.  But she wants to contribute her part.  She was able to get out of the village with one machine.  She used to have a big business.  She trained many others in sewing. And she had many machines.  Fancy ones that did fancy stitches.  Everything was left behind.  

In a month our new uniforms will be delivered.  Everyone is saving their new work shoes for their new outfits.  We'll take pictures on that day.  We're all excited about it.