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Crazy week!
Well, it has been a crazy week. Getting the guest apartment ready. We have named it the 'tree house". For the flame trees. I think it's a catchy name, and we've always named all of the houses we live in...usually by the address, but scenery works too. Megan...
That’s just the British
Ok, so a while ago our friend Andy Stoughton started harassing us about spelling center, CENTRE. He imformed us that he was going to start spelling dude (one of the words both our families use much to frequently) some crazy way as a means of payback for all of the...
Mental Health Confessions
Anyone who knows me well knows I can get a little obsessed with things. It usually last about a month or so until I've read, researched, and experimented with that specific activity or topic way more than I'd like to admit. My sweet wife chooses to call it my...
Unpredictable
This morning I was greeted by our resident assistant, Naomi, and one of the centre girls at 7:30am on my front porch. They reminded me that today was a graduation ceremony at the vocational training program a few of our girls attend. All the girls had been up...
Kid Honesty
Lucy will be 3 in a about 2 weeks. She's at the stage where everything she thinks comes out of her mouth (I guess some people never get out of that stage). Today her winner comments both had to do with Esther our househelp. The first, announced to the whole family...
Safety First!
Have you ever been pulled over for not wearing your seat belt? I have. There's a long back story...but the short story involves me driving Ian's 94 White Ford Escort to Idaho with the automatic door belt stuck in the forward position. Since I couldn't drive 8 hours...
Wrong Target
So, it looks like the stork that was stalking me had the wrong target. The "real" stork made a real visit to Karibu Centre this last week though. We welcomed our the first baby to one of our vulnerable young pregnant women this week, and what a week it was. On...
Stalked by a stork
Eli likes to hang out at the main gate where he practices playing "guard" with Tito our security man. One morning last week, he was over there particularly early, like by 7:45 or so. I don't generally have a problem with him being over there...it allows him free...
Thanks!
We still enjoy the many packages we receive in the mail. Most of them are from family (thanks to both moms) and friends (Anna Goodworth again!). We were surprised this last week however with a package from Jannie Bahrs a woman I have never met, or spoken to! She...
Our man in blue
We got to chat with a wonderful civil servant Saturday (on Ian's birthday). On the drive home from Nairobi we were stopped by the police at a police check-point. Generally only buses, mutatus and trucks are stopped so they can pay a bribe. Our man in blue did not...