Month: May 2014

phoning it in

Tonight I was thinking that I haven’t blogged in several days, but didn’t feel like I had all that much to say, either. I started doing some mental math and calculated that this is the longest we’ve lived anywhere since I started blogging and the period of our lives with the least amount of upheaval. Great for life, lame for blogging. New things equals new stories and new photographs to share. Oh well, not moving makes up for all of that. Too bad for you.

I do have several things in the pipeline (so to speak) that need to make an appearance here.

1) We had family pictures taken and they came out great. Since I just realized (2 minutes ago) that Mother’s Day is this week, maybe I’ll post them then. I’ve stooped to a real low in the gift department — Happy Mother’s Day! Download your own gift. Sorry about that. We had British Mother’s Day here in March and this international holiday stuff throws me off. I can barely tell which season we’re in (between Hot, Hot, Hot and Not) so I’ve sort of given up on normal holiday celebrations.

2) Calvin’s Uganda trip. I asked him to write down some thoughts while traveling and then do a write-up for my blog once he got home, but I keep forgetting to ask him for a copy of it. And I want to go through his 437 photos of blurry monkeys and have him help me pick out the best ones to post along with it.

3) Brunch. Josh and I went to one of the legendary hotel brunches that lasts 4 hours and costs $80/person. It was an event. We left the kids home (see above point about $80) and they ended up having to eat Cup of Noodles from the cold store, because the take out place that we intended them to order lunch from was closed. In my defense, they loved it and they only cost 66 cents each so that made our total lunch bill practically affordable. Now I just told 95% of the story. Great. There goes that post . . .

Our newest acquisition is this Bahraini bench — the first piece of furniture we’ve had made since living overseas. Having furniture made is a big thing here because labor is inexpensive and you can have things made out of solid rosewood or teak-type wood at a fraction of what you’d pay in the US. Like the carpets, it wasn’t “cheap,” but a good price for what it is (Though if I said it cost less than what our family would spend on two brunches, then it starts to sound like a great deal!)

It’s perfect — I love the fabric that Josh picked out

The rest of the week has been the same. Camille still loving on the cat every chance she gets (whether he likes it or not)
and I finished this shirt for a friend’s baby

and this dress for Camille. I just finished it so she hasn’t had a chance to wear it yet. I guarantee it will be on her body first thing in the morning since she’s been eagerly waiting for me to finish all week (and requested the beads in the skirt). There are two stripes that I don’t like (the olive green/brown at the top and the yellow on the skirt) and I’m tempted to take them out and reknit those parts, but I know Camille won’t care so I’m leaving it alone for now. She’ll get chocolate on it soon enough and then I’ll wish the entire thing were brown.