Happy Holidays

We are off for Egypt tomorrow and won't be back until 2013!!  As I will most certainly be off the grid somewhere in the Valley o...

December Baby

Happy Birthday to my younger sister, Jeanie!!! Man, how much you've grown...

Great Expectations

It had always been our intention to start a garden wherever we ended up living here in Kenya.  So in the months that it took us to fi...

12 Days of Christmas Cards

One of my favorite things about Christmas are the holiday cards.  Back before I became an overworked career woman, I enjoyed hand making all...

Butternut Love

Before the end of last week, our oven came back into commission so I was finally able to try out this butternut squash cake recipe that I f...

Tradition

For the past several years, my best friend and I have had a running Christmas tradition where we review the highs and lows of the year gone ...

Thirty-two

On Tuesday I started a new year in my life... one in which I'm one year older and presumably wiser (yeah... rig...

Chocolate-y Bliss

I've always preferred vanilla over chocolate but when I saw Ina making this  brownie pudding , it looked so good that I couldn't ...

The Karura Forest

On Saturday morning, we decided to take a break from our usual errands and headed to the Karura Forest for a walk/hike.  Located on the n...