by AmeenaBlogArchive | Mar 18, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Kenya, Thoughts
As I sit here getting ready to write my absolutely average thoughts….a mosquito buzzes my ear and I wave my hands in the air and jump up like a possessed woman being tasered. Really, is there anything worse than that sound of a mosquito in your ear? Perhaps...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Mar 2, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Thoughts
Eli’s newest deal is to threaten me with things like, “You won’t be my mom any more.” ” I won’t love you, if you don’t…” and so on. I don’t generally respond to his threats except to shrug my shoulders and...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Sep 12, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Uncategorized
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...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Aug 24, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Uncategorized
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...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jul 15, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Uncategorized
Last week Ian got to leave mid day for a meeting in Nairobi and then hopefully to pick up Megan from the airport. Since her plane was delayed, so was he, and he just hadto spend the night in Nairobi at the home of friends. He called me that night to check in on me...