Love who?
The other day I was emailing a friend on a particularly frustrating day, and it was only a few hours into the day! As I was spewing out my frustrations I was about to write "How can I love those who take advantage, cheat and lie? Those who seem to only want my...
Happy Mother’s Day!
Have a wonderful day today moms. Please give your kids a hug 🙂
1 year anniversary
One year ago today I was on my way to my new home in Tala from the Nairobi airport. To be honest, it's been a very long year for me. A year of many ups, downs, frustrations, misunderstandings, lessons, celebrations, clarifications and just basic life issues. As I'm...
Gates, pits and craziness!
It's been an interesting couple of days. I guess that isn't really saying much since most days are pretty interesting here in Kenya! But the past few days have been a bit crazy - Tuesday we were at the property getting the gate installed (click here for how the gate...
Was that today!?
As I was going through my photos this evening I picked a few to put in this blog post about what we did yesterday (Sunday). After looking at them I began thinking "we didn't do that yesterday we did that today" at that point I knew it had been a long day! To catch...
Quote from Tarrin McDonald….
"I want to walk down the street with my mom carrying a machete!" -she was referring to this photo Soon my dear, soon! Maybe we'll get matching machete's!
Congratulations, warnings, encouragements
Spent the day today talking with several secondary students before they head back to school next week. Those who did well were congratulated, those who did so-so were encouraged to do better and those who did poorly were warned...2 terms in a row with D+ or below...
Anticipation
While the world anticipated the royal wedding (had no idea it was on until I turned on tv during lunch and there they were) we are anticipating an end to a long-running situation at an orphanage we know with kids we love. Here's a very brief update: A couple of days...
Milky Way has arrived!
Say hello to Milky Way, the new dairy/grade cow at Nice View! Big thanks go out to my good friend Bobbie and the AWANA group who raised funds to purchase Milky Way (this group raised the most funds!) She really had to be coaxed to get into the truck for her ride to...
School frustrations
School starts here in about a week so I thought I'd tell you a bit of my frustrations with, hmmm...the system here in Kenya? I guess that's a good way of putting it. First is communication - hard to communicate with the students getting ready for secondary when most...