by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jun 13, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Uncategorized
The kids have always been enthralled with my makeup bag. At home in Portland, I would pacify their interest and desire to be made-up by occasionally putting on a little nude eye shadow on each of the kids. They would then run to the mirror or each other an exclaim,...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jun 12, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Uncategorized
So, skype now works fairly well, we can actually look on-line without it taking forever, and hopefully these posts will have just gotten a whole lot easier. Here’s the trial run with the new Net@Home setup. Today was a great day, I was busy from 5:30am to...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jun 11, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Uncategorized
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...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jun 8, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Uncategorized
I know my mother-in-law reads this. Perhaps she will remember a year and a half ago when she and my father in law came over to our house in Portland to watch the kids while Ian and I attended a Women of Vision auction. I was excited. It was my first...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jun 7, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Uncategorized
On Friday, after some absence from the Mother of the Year contest, I earned my way to a submission. Eli and Lucy used to share a room at our home in Portland. We, or I, made the change to separate rooms for them out of desparation….too many naptimes were...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jun 5, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Uncategorized
From what I can see, the Matatu is by far and away the most widely used mode of motorized transportation here in Kenya. For Kenyan’s that is. They are small vans a little bigger that the standard suburban minivan and a lot smaller that a full sized passenger...
