OK, so my friend is SO much more organized than I am! After only a day, she sent me pics from our Friday Halloween party at the Music & Crafts thing we all go to. Note the cute tigger with the girls - that’s her daughter!
In contrast, the king of ghoul was off to a [...]
Our first real-time post since we’ve got home, I think The girls just finished their jack’o’lanterns, and I think they are fabulous! They designed them (from cut-out shapes) and decided where the eyes, nose, and mouth would go, all by themselves. Now they are picking out seeds from the pumpkin meat, and I have [...]
Spice is the Lady Bug and Sugar is the Bumble Bee. Thanks to H in Ontario for the costumes! I forgot my camera yesterday for the Arts and Crafts party, so you get the dress rehearsal picture. Enjoy the night!
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Jrock’s best friend K and his family suffered a terrible loss Wednesday, and we just found out last night. K’s sisters are the closest thing to sisters Jrock ever had, and now the quiet, shy and thoughtful sister, with a three year old son, is a widow.Â
Her husband, a really nice quiet guy we’ve sat [...]
You can tell the girls are getting their braids out either that day or the next if you see photos of them wearing a hat! So here is one hair day to another - two weeks later though
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We thoroughly enjoyed going into the bush in Ethiopia, but even in the heart of the city you can see an amazing amount of birds. It truly is an amazing place - From fatbirder.com: “In addition to 840 species of birds, of which a staggering 30 are endemic (Africa`s second highest country tally); Ethiopia has [...]
A friend gave us a book (”The Baby Whisperer for Toddlers” - bad name, but good book) and inside was a small section on values-based parenting. Well, in the work I do we also use a lot of value-based planning and value-based management. In fact,a book that was very helpful to get our relationship off [...]
On Saturday we are going to join the Bike Rally in Kelowna to support international action against climate change. There are events happening across Canada, if you would like to get involved… check it out!
What are you doing this Saturday?
In three days, millions of people around the world will gather in support of protecting our [...]
The week+ before our trip to Calgary was eventful. First of all we went to our first Moon Festival,the Chinese Thanksgiving equivalent, hosted by our friends who have a little daughter from China.Â
Following the fall theme, we had to get our RV ready for the winter, and my Dad was in town to give us [...]
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Spice flat on her tummy and unable to get up with one arm. Pretty good little sport.
Well our trip to Calgary over the last four days was certainly eventful.
First of all, let me describe Spice’s “Worst Day Ever”. We were just heading off to the Wiggles concert from my friend L’s house. Spice had woken [...]
Continue reading about First Snow, Great-Grandparents and a Broken Collarbone
I went searching the web and found a great page with several great amharic fonts… all for free! So I thought I would pass it on. If you are unsure of what you do with these, usually you simply just save the ttf file, then put in in your c://windows/fonts file - and voila! you [...]
One of the most intimidating things I found about being a prospective adoptive parent (fondly known as PAPs,) was a hair and skin regime for my kids. How do you know what to pick? Especially when their skin and hair are so different from yours…
Well, everybody has their favourites, and I hope you parents out [...]
A week ago we drove for an overnight (which turned into two nights away) in Vancouver. We visited my BF, went to the aquarium, ate Ethiopian food, shopped at IKEA, and showed the girls the ocean.
Every day since one of our daily reading selections (we read about 4 books a day) has been Baby Beluga! [...]
Ok, so this is a little bit of a complaint post.
How stupid is this… we don’t actually get any proof of citizenship when the girls get their facilitation visas from Nairobi. So when you get home, you have to fill out some more paperwork and send it away. But because the girls have really odd [...]
