Heater war!

Rainy season ended even before started! Now, we are in cold season already. It is a no joke, it is cold! How would I know, Kenya can get this cold! Had no clue! Either I was very ignorant or totally blindfolded, I had no idea temperature can get this low in Kenya! Imagine 10C in the morning, seriously!

In the morning, we are dragging ourselves out of our beds. All we want is to snuggle and none of us want to move! Some mornings I find my little one, tugged himself next to me quietly!  Poor little man, holding with his one hand his yellow blankie, he just lays next to me:) At nights, it is a different story, by 7:30pm I start boiling water for our warm water bags! We all have one and they come with different colours, so there are no fights! On the other hand, heater is the most sought after item at our house! Who knows this little noisy machine can play such an important role in our lives!!!! During TV time, my children basically glue themselves to this little machine with their blankets, when my husband joins them, there the fights begin! Being a good mother, I wait for my turn:) Let me also mention, this little machine gets very handy in our house, I even use it to dry our laundry!!! The only problem is every 10 minutes you have to change it's direction! I still question myself, why on the earth I sold my dryer when we moved here! It is just me being ignorant of where I was moving! There you have it! Criticising myself, is not it a big step?

We got two of these noisy little machines, one goes to the rooms before children go to bed. First, we warm up my son's room! And than move it to my daughter's room! You probably wonder, why we do not buy the third one! Himmm, no idea, we are being very conservative probably!!!

We also have a fire place in the living room, but I am just so scared to use it! Because of my past experiences so far in this house since the first day we moved in, I am afraid the whole house can burned down! I must admit, during the cold days it is very tempting though!

Apologies for grammar and typo mistakes

As you all probably noticed, English is not my first/native language:) Even though I went to a private high school with English curriculum, when I went to US for my master degree I noticed whatever I learn was not English! Because I could not understand one word what my roommates were saying!! Still remember how I felt embarrassed, and for a long time instead of talking, I have done lots and lots of listening!!! It took quite a long time for me to be comfortable. And being a perfectionist did not help to the matter!

When I started my blog little over a year ago, I did not feel comfortable writing in English, put aside posting it on the Internet! And never thought so many people would read my blog, I did not even dream it! So for a long time, I was obsessed with typos, punctuations, and yes grammar! Then I noticed, putting to much time and get stress about it created a cold feet! So first few months, I could not write a lot.

As we all know, blogs, especially personal blogs have become mainstream these days. Who could have predicted it, right? Nowadays, whenever I find extra time, I go back to my old blogs and do at least spell check (it is so easy, just have to click on the link, such a great tool for me!!) I wish there is also a grammar check as well:). Once I finish the piece I work on, I feel urged to publish it. That's the area I have to work on, patience and patience!

I want to say thank you for reading my blogs and be so tolerant:)  I will do my best to do more proof read and spell check.

Farewell Parties on the rise!

It is time of the year again! School term is coming to an end, and we have two months of break ahead of us. Some of us preparing to go over to our home countries, others are brave enough to stay here! (Why am I saying 'brave enough'? It is really getting cold in here! I mean yesterday, It was 10 degrees in the morning!) And rest are leaving the country for another journey. So past few weeks we have been quite a few goodbye parties. Today I also noticed, our neighbour started to pack up. A d I thought 'have not they arrived only a year ago! They cannot go now!'

Whenever I see international moving companies around, I remember how we felt when our furniture have arrived. Until that moment, I never believed in personal attachment to furniture's and like much (this is me saying, who moved hundreds of times!), but this time it was different. Did it feel different because we moved into a totally new place and culture? Or am I getting old? May be all of the above! But I still remember that feeling, feeling of happiness and joy of seeing familiar items in our new place. My children were screaming with an excitement in each box opened that day:) Now, when I see people are packing, I wonder how it would be this time? Will I be happy to moving, sad or somewhere in the middle? I really wonder...

Making friend is not an easy task for me, I am not a social bug...So losing friend is no different, even though I am happy for my friends. However, the idea of not seeing familiar faces around makes me uneasy... In places like Africa, friendships make a big difference, you get to share so many things and have lots of things common that you would not in any other place. It feels like you are on same road...