New Friends

We had such a great time at play group this morning, and its fun to watch F and T actually playing and using English with other kiddos.  Here’s Fikadu with his new buddy Isaiah wearing matching backwards Baseball caps!  Watch out world! 

Today’s hiking adventure. . .

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Photo update

Here’s some photos of things we’ve been up to. . .
Tigist and I now have weekly tea while Fikadu and Daddy have outside boy time.  Baby dolls are invited and the finest play china tea sets are brought out! =)

Saturday Evening we had dinner together at Meaza’s Ethiopian Restaurant.  This was so special for the [...]

Mintin?

No that’s not a typo title, but as far as we can tell its how you say, “What” in Amharic. Tuesday’s dinner conversation revolved around what different things ate.  But it really began earlier in the day when I pulled into the gas station to fill up the car and the kiddos were in the [...]

Biblical Approaches to Attachment

I’m planning on doing a follow-up to the previous post on this subject, and would really love to hear from some more people on their ideas.  Thank you Dr.  Arthur Becker-Weidman  for commenting as well.  My hope is to include your suggestions for improving attachment along with others professional advice  in my follow-up post.   It was interesting [...]

English Acquisition: Revisted

Any guesses as to what my children were attempting to convey with the following words??  (I figured it out, I just thought it’d be fun to hear everyone elses interpretations)
Fikadu: “Mommy, upstairs water coming.”
Tigist: “Baby Jesus, Mommy kiss.”  (Hint: She’s pointing to something on her while saying this)
***Answers***
Fikadu was looking out the window and explaining [...]

Great Recipe

This recipe happened to show up on my daily calendar. (Thanks Lesa – great Christmas gift!)  The kids and I loved this easy to make delicious but not so nutrious treat!
Quick Carmel Corn
Mix together:

1 stick melted butter/margarine
1/4 cup white corn syrup
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda

Microwave on high 5-6 minutes
Pop 1 cup [...]

Biblical Approaches to Attachment

Writing on this blog has become highly therapeutic.  There are days that I need to remember the good and others I need to process the difficult.  It’s been good to look back at the fun posts over the past 5 weeks, laugh, and see evidences of God’s grace at work.  
So today I’m writing again to [...]

Only in Virginia

Can you do this on Monday. . . .

 

 
And this on Saturday. . . .

Look familiar Mom?

Around the time I was this age I used to do 100 somersaults most nights, as a type of winding down! This fun was of no prompting of my own.