Merry Christmas Everyone!

I hope it’s a great one for you and yours! I’m taking a holiday from this lovely blog to spend some time with my hooligans, but I’ll be back after Christmas… once I’ve stuffed myself with turkey, gotten a suntan (cuz… yikes, do I need one), read a good book (yeah, right), dreamt of snow, [...]

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Summertime.

It really is hard for me to continue our amazing Zanzibar story when when we are busy getting our fingers stuck in the garden, mixing up batches of cookie dough, having dance parties to “All I Want For Christmas”, ordering our Christmas turkey, answering questions about where fairies come from, and doing dives into the [...]

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Our Ella.

I’m taking a break today from writing about our adventures in Zanzibar (more to come, don’t miss it!) to enter the I Heart Faces weekly photo competition. The theme this week over there is Pets. I took this photo of our Ella Bella a few days after we got back from 3 months in the [...]

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Day 6: The Lost Boys of Zanzibar

I was eating my tapas and sipping on the perfect umbrella drink when a little boy raced past me covered in sand. I looked at Coffee Guy and said, “Sorry hunny, gotta go. There are little boys covered in sand. It’s amazing. Did you SEE THAT? Bye!” These boys were not lost at all, but [...]

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Day 5: Zanzibar or Bust

We landed in Zanzibar at 11 pm, still hot and exhausted from our airport battles. The next hurdle to jump over was, would our bags be there? The last time we had seen them was in Burundi and in our experience, whenever a flight is canceled… the bags go on a little vacation of their [...]

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Day 5: Stuck in a travel vortex

It has taken me several days to conjure up enough emotional mo-jo to write this post. When things go wrong, I’m a “don’t look back, move on ahead” kind of girl. When I think about Zanzibar, I don’t want to look back. I told Coffee Guy when we got home that maybe I would skip [...]

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Thanks WordPress, you’re sweet.

My four-year old son stood up in front of church this morning proclaiming the arrival of baby Jesus while dressed in a superhero suit. He was one of three very wise looking superhero suit clad kids. Everybody knows the wise men dressed as superheros. Duh. On the way home he said, “Mom, did you see [...]

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Day 4: To Burundi and Back

I made a deal with God, which, you really never should do. My deal? I’ll move to Burundi IF…. we see a house we could live in while on this trip. Please God, please God, PLEEEEEAAAAASSSSSSEEEEEE! Ok, so maybe that’s begging, not dealing. I never have been really good at making deals. I was the [...]

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Extra Credit!

While I’m working on the story of Day 4 in Burundi, I thought I would do an extra credit post about Day 2. Including video, this is all cuz I love yah! I love yah so much I opened a You Tube account. I should get extra credit for that too, I am now officially [...]

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Day 3: To Burundi and Back

by Ben Carlson Coffee Guy here stepping into a guest blogging role.  Kinda fitting for this day. Our first full day in Burundi was all about exposure.  Wikipedia explains two types of exposure: Exposure may refer to: Publicity, an activity designed to rouse public interest Outing, exposure of someone’s secret sexual orientation Lets be clear. [...]

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Day 2: To Burundi and Back

This day encompassed so many different places and feelings that it felt like a month of days all rolled into one. Neo woke us up at 6am and we played under the mosquito nets for while. It was good to be in a place, any place, after the travels of Day 1. Even if the [...]

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