Hello blog friends! I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving! We enjoyed a trip to Alabama to visit family and came home ready to break out the Christmas decorations. It’s been interesting to try to explain our American Christmas traditions to Yohannes. When I told him we were going to put a tree in...
A couple of weeks ago, Layla from The Lettered Cottage left a comment here on the blog. I wasn’t familiar with her and her husband’s AMAZING website, and I literally spent over an hour perusing through it after I read her comment. I even had Brad looking at pictures and videos and dreaming of little...
Yohannes had a fun birthday today! He woke up and shuffled down the stairs (he wakes up like an old man!) to find lots of balloons greeting him. He loves balloons & played with them a lot at Hannah’s Hope, so I decorated downstairs with them last night before I went to bed. Riley and...
There’s a birthday boy at our house today! Yep, that’s right . . . Yohannes is FOUR! Yesterday I took him out for a little photo session to document the occasion, and he was so proud to wear his traditional Ethiopian outfit. We bought it for him on our first trip to Addis Ababa, just...
A few weeks ago, Yohannes had to get six shots. It was so hard to hold him while he cried and screamed “Mommy! No! Hurts! All done! No more, Mommy!” I was so relieved to have those vaccinations out of the way, and I felt really bad for having to hold him down while a...
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{We sponsor Umalu in Uganda, and I refer to him as the first little boy in Africa that I ever loved!}
