Charming Baby
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Turtle soup?
Even Bigger
Some of you may have seen the rat that was killed in our backyard a couple months ago. It was rather large and I thought the gardener was a little crazy to suggest that there were larger rats yet…that is, until yesterday! Read more
A Zambian Baby Shower
This is an entry I wrote a while back but never posted:
Before leaving for South Africa, my team-mates gave me a “baby shower”; my states-side friends gave me an “online shower”, the church in South Africa threw a “stork party” and now my baby has been properly welcomed by my Zambian friends. In Zambia it is customary to bring gifts for the baby only after he or she is born. Read more
Extra-curricular
Usually I (Andrea) am the one who receives most of the doubtful, sometimes accusatory, questions about home schooling. “Why don’t you send your daughter to school?”, “Aren’t you afraid she isn’t going to develop socially?”, “How many hours a day do you spend schooling her?”, “Can she read?”…and on it goes. Read more
Cloth Diapering
This past week I started Tristan on cloth diapers. Now, I tried using cloth diapers with Ian but bought the supplies locally. The Zambian nappies didn’t absorb fluid well and the plastic pants didn’t contain the blow-outs. I was not impressed and found it very difficult to keep up with. As we prepared for Tristan’s birth, Read more
Scissor Craft
Ian has gotten to be pretty handy with scissors… well, not really. He took scissors to one of Agogo’s queen bedspreads. Luckily he didn’t cut all the way through, but he did leave some bald patches where he let the scissor teeth gnaw on the fabric. He was given the alternative Read more
Agogo Tells the Story of Esther
Because we have all of our books packed up ready for our departure back to Lusaka, our devotional book wasn’t available for devotions this evening. Agogo (Mom Armes) said she had just the perfect book to read to the kids. She came back with a book about Esther. Read more