Ameena
Today we celebrate one wonderful year of having Ameena in our lives. What a full year this last one has been. Being pregnant while living in Africa was interesting. I felt healthy, but had more physical symptoms than with any of my other children. Crazy high blood sugar that I monitored much less than I [...]
Sunday lunch
We joined a small group from church. For you non-churchies…that is just a way of saying being assigned a group of friends that you meet with to socialize, and support, and study with. We’re trying to expand our social circle a little…..it’s a big adjustment to go from many close, close friends in Portland to [...]
Happy Birthday Ian!
Today (8/22) we celebrate Ian’s birthday! He’s a big whopping 35 years old. He is an amazing husband, father, friend and leader! I am so proud of everything he has directed here in Africa. He really knows how to get things done! Here’s what he looked like when we were first married, I think this [...]
Until now, diapers seemed normal
You know how in the states you just assume that any kid who is NOT potty trained is pretty much in diapers or some type of equivalent? Silly me for assuming that such would be the case here! I guess in the program planning here we (or at least I) didn’t consider that there would [...]
And this would be?
So on Friday after the program let out I took Megan in to the Makongeni market with me to do a little veggie shopping. She had been to the market previously with Ian, but on an off day…one with very few vendors and a crazy man screaming at them that they didn’t belong here in [...]
One stop shopping
This is a short post, but I had to share my horror or perhaps laughter??? My house help Esther asked if we could stop on the way to her house at the dentist so she could get some medicine for her son who just had a tooth extracted. I waited in the car while she ran [...]
Sniff, sniff
In talking with my twin brother Andy and his wife Kori last night , Ian and I realized that we have not done a post of the “smells” of Kenya. There are some things here that after a week or two, you just start to take it for granted and you forget how unique or [...]
Nyama Choma
I really wish I had some pictures for this post but I don’t, so I’ll have to do my best description with words alone. Yesterday I was out running errands for the center: buying sugar, salt, 50kg of beans, and 50gk of Maize to make Githeri (a simple complete meal they love) for the center [...]
Hopefully some pictures
our front porch yesterday morning’s bugs that came through the shut door tucking the kids into bed, their beds were handmade by Salvation Army’s students at Variety Village driving into Thika, note the roadside furniture for sale on [...]
GUM
Today at an outdoor shopping mall I was walking a short distance behind a 3-4 year old girl, and 2 women (I’m guessing her mom and her aunt) who were chatting away. ALL of a sudden, the little girl bends down and grabs at a huge gob of fresh blue gum stuck to the sidewalk [...]
