Today is Wednesday, my favorite day of the week. Most children in France don’t have school on Wednesdays so that allows time for us mothers to positively interact with our children. I like to do such activities as teaching them to read in English, arts and crafts, baking together, planting seeds. So today I thought we’d start with some gardening…. Read More
Last night Petit Prince had the croup and it was a dirty night (literal translation from the french). Our first experience with the croup was the night before we moved to France when we were thankfully staying at Betsy and Nerses’s place. At three in the morning Young Lady barked herself awake, and Betsy, who had loads of croup experience… Read More
When we returned to Hargeisa after being in Djibouti for three months and Kenya for four, we learned that chubby little Kadra had died. She was the baby we thought would make it. She was doing so well, and due to the language barrier, we weren’t even able to learn the cause of her death. Another little creature, whose name… Read More
The boulder of seeming impossibilities has rolled. And it has all but flattened me in its wake. During this exhausting past week, in addition to the usual holiday “cheer”, we have finally moved into our mostly finished downstairs bedrooms, becoming Task #1 of Seeming Impossibility. After five months of cramped living in little more than a construction site disguised as… Read More
Yesterday was my son’s first birthday and we had a party. In preparation for the fête, I questioned the wisdom of having one, but in the end I was glad we did. Saturday, the stress of my baby crying all night from an ear infection and the messy house that I never was able to surmount in spite of canceling… Read More
I don’t remember all of the ten vows I made to my husband at our wedding 9 years ago, but I do remember promising him to make our home a haven of peace and welcome for all who would come. The measures to bring peace and welcome to our guests often involves a last-minute scramble to shove clothes in drawers,… Read More
