He was 97 years old.
It was a few years ago that I started considering every visit a gift. I really got to know my Grandpa as an adult - we didn’t see a lot of them growing up, as we lived so far away. But when I went to university just a few hours away, [...]
Back to Ethiopia:
The Merkado is the shopping place that all the guide books tell you about and tell you to be wary in. Personally, I don’t like pickpockets, and I had my arms and hands full with two little girls. So in Ethiopia we steered pretty clear of the huge Addis market.
That said, there are dozens [...]
A month ago I hinted in a post that I was researching Amharic fonts… well today I put it into use and got my first ever and probably last ever tattoo.Â
It’s to commemorate my kids. I never got a tattoo before because I couldn’t think of anything that permanent I wanted to celebrate. Well, kids are [...]
The girls have really grown since we got them - in size, and in nature. They are up to a 7 shoe size, and almost always size three tops… but the pants! Wow, there’s a trouble. They broke through the knees of three pairs of jeans, leaving us with two decent pairs. So we went jeans [...]
I guess you have to have your posse around when you have breakfast. It makes it a whole lot more fun! Look - it’s like a party in the kitchen.
For your personal amusement, I’ll list out the “babies’” names from back to front. Some of you might recognize a few! Hana, Eskedar, Ava, Mihiret, Sylvie, [...]
The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on ‘donating a mammogram’ for free (pink window in [...]
And it’s time for fall activities - hikes, cracking nuts, crunching leaves, making birdfeeders, and getting the most of sunny days before the winter rolls in.
Enjoy the pictures from the last week or so.
Last weekend I flew away for four days to Los Angeles. Yeah! It was so nice to get away and be my usual professional self - to stay up late, talk business, and not clean up after anyone. Not that I didn’t miss the kids… BUT I definitely needed a break. I think I’d lost [...]
Urban Harvest delivery - all organic and/or local.
One of our strategies as new parents is to simplify and make life a little easier. So, despite being on EI, (which came through this week! yahoo!) we pay for a housekeeper each week, and also have a food delivery service.
OK, so the housekeeper is a luxury! but [...]
The girls running full out for the first time in their lives. Something to see.
It’s true that most of Addis Ababa is a metropolis, full of highrises, malls, slums, gravel streets, red dust and goats. But there is another side - and if you travel to Ethiopia in the off season, you can see the [...]
The Adoptive Families Assoc. of BC organizes an annual Fall Family Get-together, and this is the first time we went… about 140 people! but we only knew four families… so there are lots of people with kids from BC and different countries.
We went on a couple of hay rides, ate hotdogs, and the girls played in [...]
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We did hair yesterday and I thought I would share, since I’ve never done these styles before. Sugar has flat twists - which were really quite easy to do. It’s a common hairstyle seen in Ethiopia, and even in their Oromo tribe, which is neat. Spice has twists too - apparently you call them Senegalese [...]
When Jrock ad set out on our “Adoption Journey” we started going to seminars, doing our homestudy homework, and I read a ton of books on parenting. We had a lot of discussions, mostly in our car on long trips, about our approach as parents and how we were going to handle certain situations. We [...]
