by AmeenaBlogArchive | Aug 18, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Kenya, Kids
I’ve posted in the past about my love of kangas & how Kenyans use them to tie babies on their backs. Because some of you asked to see what it looked like to balance the baby on the back, I took a few pictures about a week before we were due to come back...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jul 21, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Kenya, Kids
I had a post on facebook a while back about Eli’s self portrait drawing done at school. It’s a pretty accurate drawing, except for the skin color. When I asked him why he made himself black, he corrected me saying, “Mom! I’m not black,...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jun 20, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Uncategorized
Ian has always had a special relationship with his hair. He won’t admit it though. When I met him in college he had long straight hair that went past his shoulders. I used to watch him mess with it during chapel. He’d pull it back into a ponytail and...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Apr 11, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Kenya
….are the best, especially when it’s for your kids at a friend’s house. Friends from church offered to take the kids this last Friday night and I jumped all over that. I got right on the web, and found a weekend special deal at...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Mar 25, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Kenya, Kids
A moment of true love. Lucy was invited to attend school all week, all day with Eli as this is the last week before a 3 week break between terms. No mention of me paying the insane private school fees the school charges…..so I jumped on it. Eli has been REALLY...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Mar 15, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Kids
Last week Ian was able to tag along on a climbing trip up Mt. Kenya. This is one of those things he has hoped to do while we are here, so we both agreed that it wasn’t an opportunity he should pass up. It meant that he would be gone for a total of 4 days. The...
