I’ve mentioned before that special family outings are one of Kakasii’s and my top priorities for our children. Because the older kids are often away at school, we are intentional to spend time as an entire family when they are home with us.
Ombeni and Godson are both back living at home with us now that they have finished their university programs. So when Brenda was home on school holiday we packed up the family for a day trip to Tarangire National Park. Continue reading
I’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed by life these last few days and decided I would turn to my usual pick-me-up to break out of my funk: baking. I didn’t just want to bake any old thing, though. I wanted a challenge. So I decided today was the day I would finally attempt Ida’s Famous Pound Cake. Continue reading
In raising Max and Elly as bilinguals we typically use the OPOL (one person, one language) family language system. That means that each person in the household speaks their native language to Max and Elly. Continue reading
I’m coming up on my one-year “blogiversary” next week and I’ve been thinking about what kinds of stories I want to tell on this blog, and wondering what kind of stories you want to read about. So please drop a quick note in the comments below and tell me what are you interested in reading more about from our life here in Tanzania (or life raising twins or life as a multicultural family or life as safari company owners or whatever else you’re curious about).
I’m challenging myself to write more regularly here so if you’ve got a burning question you’d like answered, now’s your chance to ask it!
If you’re planning a safari to Tanzania, I don’t recommend having Max and Elly help you pack.
I made the mistake of telling them on Tuesday that we were going on a family safari on Friday. They’ve been preparing every since. Continue reading
File this one under “Why Haven’t I Tried This Before?!?”.
In an effort to expand Max and Elly’s food preferences beyond white bread I picked up some Swiss Chard this weekend at the farmer’s market and bananas, mango and pineapple at the produce stand. I wanted to see how they would like a green smoothie. They love fruit of all kinds but vegetables are a harder sell with them, as is probably pretty typical of most 3-year-olds.
Max and Elly are three! Their birthday was a couple of weeks ago, but I guess I’m still recovering from my blogging marathon month in June when I was doing the #clickaday photography challenge.
When Mom and Carla came to visit in May they brought oodles of toys and presents for Max and Elly’s birthday so we started the day off right away with a gift bag for each of them filled with goodies from back home. Just to name a few:
Day 30: I did it! I successfully met the #clickaday photography challenge and picked up my camera every day for the month of June. You’d think Max and Kakasii would be more excited to be my final photo in the challenge. They are watching a rebroadcast of a World Cup match–apparently knowing the outcome in advance sucks much of the excitement out of watching the game.
I’m on the home stretch with my #clickaday photography challenge!
Day 27: Max and Elly don’t particularly like getting their hair washed, but in an odd turn of events on Friday, they both decided it would be fun to dip their entire heads into one of our water buckets outside. Elly came into the house and upstairs, leaving a trail of water all the way, to show me that she had “washed her hair” all by herself. Continue reading
I’ve had my head down deep in a couple of projects this week and feel like this afternoon was my first chance to stop and look up. And here it is Thursday already! I was wrapping up a freelance writing project for Gather, a fabulous magazine published by Women of the ELCA. Watch for my article in the November issue.
I also finished copy editing our new Tanzania Choice Safaris website. The designer and I have been working on it for quite a while and I’m really pleased with how it’s coming together. I’ll be starting a blog for the site soon and look forward to expanding the scope of my writing.
But back to my progress on the #clickaday photography challenge with Click It Up A Notch… Continue reading
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