Tidbits
Pure bliss...
- drinking tea with my husband and daughter at an outdoor cafe overlooking the ocean
- drinking tea at home on a cool rainy day with a good book
- eating one of our favorite soups--Curry Vegetable Soup
- taking walks around the city and noticing new flowers
- walking in procession around the block with other worshippers while waving palm branches and singing hymns to begin the Palm Sunday service
- Nadia giving hugs and kisses as she pretends to leave and coming back repeatedly before she "leaves" (To where? I don't think she knows, she just knows she's leaving and rides off to the other room on her little car)

Nadia-isms...
Last week I took Nadia out of church because she was being too loud. As I explained to her that she needs to talk quietly and sit on the pew or stand on the floor between Joel and I, she noticed another woman bringing her two children outside. She told me, "Baby time out".

She's begun singing with me as I sing to her, "If I were a butterfly". When I get to the part, "I just thank you for making me, me" she joins in with a hearty, "Making me, Me!"

I recently found my flipflops that were missing for several months (never unpacked from a suitcase from a trip). When I first wore them around the house, she called them "Nois shoes" because our friend, Lois (Nois) in Johannesburg wears flip flops often.

My Kitchen
- I wish i had more space in our freezer. As it stands now, we have a number of items in it that because of the location of where we live, they need to be in the freezer, but do not really need to be frozen--lots of Joel's chocolate, several containers of flour/wheat bran, and chicken broth. There isn't much room for things that I would like to store in it--seasonal vegetables so we can have them more year-round, ice cream (it it was more readily available), popsicles (there's no room even if I wanted to make them.
- There's a distinct smell to washing dishes with hot water from the tap. I remember being enchanted with the smell when we moved to our house in Chimoio and had hot water from the faucet. Now we're back to heating water for our dish water, the smell's not the same.