Christmas in Botswana
We spent three weeks in Botswana over Christmas and New Year and had a great time catching up with family but unfortunately I was pretty sick for most of the trip. Between that and our week of flu at...
View ArticleInternational Book Giving Day – February 14
I LOVE this holiday! When I taught at a primary school in rural Zambia from 1998 to 2000 books were hard to come by. Often there was one textbook per subject per grade – about 40 kids per book. The...
View ArticleMaking Homemade Books for International Book Giving Day
We really enjoyed celebrating International Book Giving Day, which happens to be the same day as Valentine’s Day. We started out by selecting a pile a gently used books from our shelf to donate to a...
View ArticleOur DIY Gruffalo Birthday Pinata
Making a birthday pinata has become our new April tradition. We made a frog prince pinata last year for Boo’s birthday and then a leopard pinata in June for Kooks’s birthday. This year we are having a...
View ArticleGruffalo Party Food Ideas
This blog has been quiet as we’ve enjoyed my parents’ visit and celebrated the girls’ birthdays. I thought I’d post some photos of the food we had at our Gruffalo themed party. It was such a fun theme...
View ArticleWelcome to the first annual Backyard Barbecue Bloghop!
A place to link up all your summertime recipes, activities, games and crafts! Hotdogs and hamburgers on the grill with fresh tomatoes and corn on the cob were summer staples when I was growing up and...
View ArticleGruffalo Birthday Scavenger Hunt
We were so lucky to be able to rent a house with beautiful gardens on a tea estate right next to Mount Mulanje for our Gruffalo party. It was a great place to spend time with both sets of the girls’...
View ArticleGruffalo Playdough Birthday Party Favors for Kids
You may have read about the food at our Gruffalo party, or the DIY piñata or the scavenger hunt, but of course we also needed something fun for all the Littles to take home so the last Gruffalo party...
View ArticleActive Storytelling: 100 Days of Play
When I signed up for the 100 Days of Play Blog Hop, I knew exactly what I wanted to write about. Storytelling has always been a part of our family play but recently it has gotten much more active. My...
View ArticleDIY Play Kitchen Set
My parents came to visit us in Malawi a couple of years ago and my mom brought a page she had ripped out of a Family Fun magazine with directions for a DIY play kitchen set made out of cardboard boxes....
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