I just loaded up some more sleep caps into my on-line store. Thanks to all my customers! as this is our travel fund for Lesotho. We are constantly amazed by how many sleep caps we have sold; I guess it is simply because they are the best hair protection product out there! (Not to toot our own horns or anything, but seriously, they are!)

For breakfast Mother’s Day Jason and the girls made me a fabulous, very meaty breakfast in bed. Yum! This is a big deal in our house, since it the one day a year that Jason cooks. (No, I don’t know what his mother was thinking either…) The girls are reasonably proficient now, so I think they did as much as her did!

The rest of the day we enjoyed at liesure, starting with a long trip to the garden store to buy a new peach tree (the old one died mysteriously after four years) and a zillion heritage tomato plants.

Then we went out for Indian, hung out with the neighbors, planted my tomatos, and relaxed. Happy Mother’s Day to me! And to the rest of you moms out there too!!

I’m back in town and open for busienss… get your sleeps! get your sleep caps!

Today we went shopping at the shiromet at the base of Entoto Mountain in Addis. We had lots of fun…But my mom still complained that I was a woman on a mission. I agreed! Not only did I have some shopping for the family to do, I also was buying lots of beautiful scarves, bracelets, hoodies, etc. for our Vulnerable Children fundraiser when we get home. T was also out shopping today, and she scored some roasted coffee beans to sell (to go along with the green beans I purchased in Nakemte. See a preview of our fundraiser sale here.)

The problem with traditional clothes is that they tend to (literally) fall apart at the seams. So today I was shopping with an eye for stitching.

I got two lovely dresses for my girls. Their others are falling apart, and they wear them several times a year. Spice, the white and black one is for you…just like mine! And Sugar, the yellow one is for you, it has the same stitching as your sister’s!

I also got a traditional outfit for a three year old boy… we still haven’t heard any news about our April matching meeting in Lesotho. But I thought it would be good for “the new guy” to have Ethiopian clothes when we go to parties, too.

I got a cool hoodie for myself…it’s a new style and it actually really suits me. I also got some bracelets. For Jrock I got the beginning of our coffee set. He wanted me to buy a traditional pot and these are the cups I chose to go with it. Cute, eh?

Lastly, I got two suits for the girls. They’re the latest traditional clothes style, and I thought they would e good for winter Ethiopian events. You girls can choose which on is for whom. They are the same except that they each have a different pattern on the stitching.

After shopping until we dropped (Thank you, thank you, Sintayehu, who negotiated for us and drove us around.) We tried to find my favourite tibs restaurant near the university. Well, I think we may have ended up in the wrong place, but it turned out that the sheep tibs (and I am NOT a mutton fan) were the second best meal I’ve had so far. Only second to the Nakemte Mate Resort omelettes. Tomorrow we have meetings and then we are off to Dukum to see my friend M’s family, and then on to Adama/Nazret. I can’t wait to see Meseret and the new Faya Orphanage digs!

[Preposted] I posted about the girls’ choices for their new room murals a couple months ago, but was remise in posting the results! After 5 days of visit, Auntie Ena still has two to go… hopefully they will get finished in the early summer. Gorgeous so far, though! The girls picked the cultures for their family and friends. They also wanted Italian and Swazi, but there wasn’t quite enough room on the wall!! lol

YES, Auntie Ena does commissions….

We spent 3 days at Easter up in Prince George, visiting my best friend S, her husband T and their little daughters. The daughters names are also S and T - which could get confusing. So from here on out, I’ll refer to them as Mac and Cheese.

I was reminiscing during our visit – although only 22 months old, Mac and Cheese are the same size (weight and shoe size, anyway) as our girls were when we brought them home just short of their third birthday. So little! So packable!

Sugar and Spice were apparently reminiscing as well, since they turned from independent 5.5 year olds who can make their won breakfast and get ready for school, into helpless children who needed mommy to put their pants on. But whatever. With Jock gone, I’ve spent a lot of my time at home with them ignoring them and trying to get my work done, so it was a chance to coddle, nurture and lovey-dove them up for a few days.

We went to the local science centre as well as to a friend of S&T’s for an Easter egg hunt, but the highlight was definitely just hanging out and catching up.

Funny, I could tell the girls apart right away, even though I hadn’t seen them since last summer… and didn’t mix them up once! Must be a mom-of-twins thing However, I may have mixed them up in the pictures… the chick pic, I can’t remember who was wearing what, and I can’t see her face! lol

Enjoy the pictures!

Somehow I didn’t get a bunch of random pictures posted.. but they are worth posting!! Enjoy the randomness…

I’ll post pictures of the fashion show in a few days, but for now, please enjoy Spice’s new fashion show twists!

I don’t usually copy styles, but when I saw this on Chocolate Hair, Vanilla Care I knew it was perfect for my little girl too. Doesn’t she look FAB???