The twins set our morning ritual. Lately, I’ve been lucky enough to slip away around 6 and exercise. I get back around 6:30, and I change them while Nancy prepares their breakfast. After we feed them, we get a blanket out and put them on the floor to play. Usually, we are all rushing about trying to get ready for the day, but on Saturdays, I like to play on the floor with them.
On a recent Saturday, I was playing...
Sometimes you just don’t know what to say, and it’s best not to say anything at all. Matthew was in a play in his class, and they were acting out a book they had read. When I asked him how his part went, he told me with great exasperation in his voice `It’s really hard to be a Nazi wearing a Chihuahua t-shirt.’
We are in a pretty regular water crisis here. Part of that is from the deforestation of Kenya;...
For some reason I can’t quite fathom, Nancy sometimes feels the need to spend time with other woman. The sixteen dorm boys are all remarkably sensitive and JT, Matthew and Ben reflect the compassion of the modern male. By now, you know how sensitive I am. And yet, Nancy will tell Katie almost everyday `Grow faster, little one. Momma needs another girl around here.’
Some of the ladies will have a birthday luncheon for each other, and it was scheduled to...
This was new, taking a vacation with infants. We were all tired from the term and the excitement of adopting the twins, so staying for a week on the coast sounded wonderful.
Going to the coast involves an eight hour drive over some of the worst roads you can imagine, and for some reason, people who would normally gladly give us a ride were hesitant about driving with nine month old babies in the car.(One guy asked: `you taking BOTH of...
Here are the facts:
The drop out rate in most Kenyan schools is about 65-70%.
Most Kenyan children eat one meal a day.
When a free lunch is provided, the drop out rate is reduced dramatically.
Here are some thoughts:
Most Kenyan children walk several miles to a classroom and sit all day on a bench without a back to it.
It would seem like one might be able to concentrate if you had some food in your stomach.
Without an education, there is little opportunity one...
Fred begged us to bring the twins.
It will only be one hour, he told us again and again, and it won’t be the same if the whole family isn’t there.
And we were close to bringing them, until JT and Matthew went to the practice.
Matthew was playing the processional, and one tradition in a Kenyan wedding is for the bride to work down the aisle VERY slowly to show she is sad to leave her parents. After he played the processional...
Several comments about the exciting contest:
Many of you have WAY too much time on your hands.
If someone is having a baby and I yell `Name it Steve or Stephanie’ that is CHARMING. If you suggested the name Steve or Stephanie to name a COW, it is a sign of IMMATURITY and RUDENESS.
Those of you that decided to use this contest as an opportunity to insult me severely hurt your chances of winning.
We had more response to this email than when...
Our date was great. It’s remarkable how being away for a day can refresh your perspective. It was also the first time I had driven to Nairobi since we had returned to Kenya, and it’s not like driving in Dallas. I dodged mule carts, sheep, matatus driven by escapees from the Asylum for the Criminal Insane, and pot holes that are so deep and so wide you can’t do anything but bid farewell to certain...
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