by AmeenaBlogArchive | Dec 21, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Kenya, Kids, Thoughts
I’m starting to think that Kenyan’s have a very different idea on how to help children develop positive self image, well actually, a different idea on interacting with children in general. My first clue to this was the large Kenyan man working in the toy...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Dec 14, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Kenya, Kids
That was the title of Eli’s school Christmas concert. I was pleasantly surprised by the content of the concert which very much had a “Christ”mas theme! I was surprised because a great deal of the families that attend Eli’s school are either...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Dec 9, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Kenya, Kids
Our good friends the Prins’s gifted Lucy with a Corelle (I think I’m spelling that right, but Nat, you can correct me since I don’t want to go into Lucy’s room while she’s asleep clutching it, to sneak a peak at the baby’s belly)...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Dec 2, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Kenya, Travel
Part 2 of our family vacation was a 5 night trip to the beach. We used a missionary specific travel agent in planning our trip and got a pretty good deal on an all-inclusive family resort (I’ve never been to an all-inclusive before). The morning after...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Nov 29, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Kenya, Travel
So we did this all more than a week ago, but it is Africa, and we were t.v. and computer free for essentially 2 weeks. It was a nice break…..learning to just be still and smelling the dampened earth, exhaust free air, plumeria on the warm evening air. I could...