I know it’s a short month, but it just seemed to fly by. There wasn’t enough time in the day for anything - many of the committments I had got bumped for others. I’m sort of doing a half-job of almost everything.
When’s the last time I baked bread? Last week? I usually bake bread ever [...]
I am so behind in my posting, it’s not even funny. Here are some pics from today - we had two play dates (one with T from Swaziland and her mommy), as well as meetings, errands, an emergency icecream trip (I was having a melt-down,) a hair cut, etc. This month coming up will be [...]
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We are so very lucky - at the girls’ pre-school there are five families from Africa, including one Ethiopian family.
We got invited to their son’s birthday party today, and it was so great. There were 5 or 6 Ethiopian/Eritrean families there, as well as a Kenyan family (the only one we had met before. The girls were a little overwhelmed [...]
It was our first time having a sick baby the last two days… Poor Sugar didn’t eat a lunch, supper, breakfast and lunch again. Yesterday she was lack-lustre, but this morning she was just pitifully tired and bedridden. Poor dear. Obviously she had the stomach flu (although being first time parents we still called my BF [...]
We’ve been slowly trying to tick off the to do list… dentist, eye doctor, public health nurse for vaccines, Â attachment counsellor, notary for name change, etc. etc. There are a lot of professionals you need to see when you get home with kids from a different country!
Sugar getting flossed.
So last week I had my tooth [...]
After reading Debbie Allen’s Dancing in the Wings (totally great book about an empowered little girl - yes, it’s in my bookstore!) the girls really really wanted to learn how to dance. Spice was actually the keenest, which surprised me, becuase she’s the least coordinated of the two.Â
So I took them to a class in [...]
Ok, so she gave me a heart attack when I went to wake them up a couple days ago. I looked in her bed, in the bathroon, UNDER the bed, in her sister’s bed…
…Â when finally I saw her!
Sugar had been there the whole time - just tucked in with the stuffies at the end of [...]
You’re probably thinking “well, duh. That’s what you’ve been saying all along.”
Well, in Ethiopian adoption, it’s really common to have one age on paper and your kids be another age. Especially for kids older than 2. Certainly there is occasionally a little age fudging by birth parents, but much more common is simply not knowing [...]
I was compiling some video clips for my relatives today, and I just can’t believe how far along the girls’ language has come. Some people are also surprised at the things we talk about - and most of the time they start the conversation.Â
Like today when we were driving past the hospital, Spice says “I [...]
I guess every family has their own customs about eating, and family traditions. In my family, for example, we always used chopsticks growing up for Chinese food, and then sushi when it came en vogue. It actually started when my dad was in uni and her had a Chinese roommate - and only a wooden [...]
The girls just love reading - and they pay such close attention. I think we’ve read this one two or three times, and she gets the jist of the story just fine.
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PS: the battery charger arrived! So expect better newer fantasticer pics soon!
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We had to keep it under tight wraps since October, but as of last month, it’s public knowledge. My Best Friend (since grade 4/5, so she retails the title even into adulthood) is preggers with twins! We’re so very happy for her and her hubby.  And it’ll be so nice to have someone else “in the [...]
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We had a very nice time at Shuswap Lake for Xmas… as you can see from the video above. (Note it’s 12 min long.) For a more condensed view, here’s a picture of my whole family on Boxing Day.Â
Hope your holiday was as good!
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