We’ve been learnng colours all week and one of the pieces of the pie was making homemade playdough. The girls got to choose the colours, and as they were playing I constantly reminded them about which colour was which. Daddy also did a day of colours: going through the colour book, finding things in the [...]
At first when we arrived, I was determined to cook at our hotel. After all, there was a hotplate, and I love to cook. Things I didn’t take into account: electricity (therefore cooking power) only once every two days; eating out being so darned cheap; and a complete inability to leave kids while taking off [...]
We had a quieter week - which is good because I have bronchitis (the nasty cold I caught on the plane home that just got worse and worse…) and Jrock is suffering from a nasty cough too. We take turns sleeping on the sofa because if one person isn’t coughing like crazy the other one [...]
I thought I would write about something lighter… A story that starts in Ethiopia and continues to this day
When you are thinking of adopting transracially, girls’ hair can be intimidating. Try twins on for size! Anyway, I jumped in with two feet and am really enjoying doing the girls’ hair.
What works for us: [...]
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Flying to Ethiopia the way we did, we were so afraid that 1. our kids would be dispersed to other orphanages and 2. that they would run out of food.
Well, if the Women’s Ministry hadn’t been in a training seminar for two weeks at that time, the transition home may well have been “reorganized” and [...]
Just a little funny for all my teacher friends and fam out there. Just click on the link below, save and then open to hear the audio file.
Parents Calling the School (what they don’t want to hear!)
PS: Don’t agree with the last sentence, but the rest is SO true!
A week or so in pictures. We’ve laid pretty low - the girls are figuring out the dogs and cats… They’ve started chasing the kitty, so that’s - er - progress, I think.
We had some visitors for their Bday (which was actually in August; they are Leos - Ambasas! - their favorite animal). My parents [...]
You’ve seen pictures and a little description of meeting the girls for the first and second times at the transition home, if you’ve been following the blog. But here is a little more.
The first day we went to the transition home, I wasn’t sure what we would find, considering the food situation and everything. But [...]
Now you see how they got their names…
PS: Spice makes the most hilarious faces! Sugar just grins….
For those of you who have never been to Ethiopia, here are some pictures that will give you a taste of the captial, Addis Ababa. For those that have been, you will also remember the sounds
horns honking, donkeys braying, children laughing, machiato cups clinking, blind ladies begging, diesel trucks roaring, friends greeting
and the smells
coffee roasting, [...]
Life is resuming at home now - although I have to admit it’s hard being at the house so much, and not having the dogs running about. But the girls are making slow but steady progress with the dogs (the dogs now can run about on the floor as long as the girls are perched [...]
