Love Them!

Lantern Light

Power outages are a common occurrence here. We are getting to be experts at lighting our kerosene lanterns.

Anna White

The Cameroonian Way!

This morning, Anna took lessons on carrying a baby the Cameroonian way! Doris, a Cameroonian friend who is helping me around the house, gave us lessons. It was great!

 Anna refused to hold still for a picture with Doris, but I wanted to post this anyway. Today I am especially thankful for Doris. She is so kind and such a huge help. She is a very practical way that God is providing just what we need each day!

And on a side note, I made roasted soy beans last week for the first time. They are so yummy . . . but I am still wondering why soy beans in Cameroon are about 1/4 the size of soy beans in America.

First Day of School

Gracie started going to a little preschool this week! It is two mornings a week and so far has been just great. It's giving her some interaction with other Western kids her age (there aren't that many here at the moment) and is giving some structure to our week. I've also enjoyed some one-on-one time with little Anna!

 Walking to pick up Gracie from school (this is on the compound where we live). Gracie's school is about a 10 minute walk from our house.

Gracie's class 

She LOVES this doll house! 

And just for fun: Anna, determined to put on her shorts by herself. She is SO independent these days. 

How could you not love that face!

Produce

We are loving the tropical produce of Cameroon! Fresh produce is easy to get and relatively inexpensive, so we are enjoying lots of it. Because of the water and other factors here we have to clean our produce in a special way to make it safe to eat.

 First, we soak it in a bleach water for at least 30 minutes.

 Then we rinse it well in our filtered water.

Finally, we let it air dry completely before eating it.

 It takes a little time and thinking ahead, but once it is clean it is so so yummy!



Loving being with these two!

Today Justin is at his first day of work at the hanger and I am loving being back to my job of "Mommy." Who wouldn't love hanging out with these two all day?!

 I can't get over her cuteness in this skirt!

 Making valentine cookies.

 Our mission has a children's library which is amazing! Today we picked up this fun game at the library too!

At Home

 Hot and tired!



Gracie is such a big helper in the kitchen. She helps with dishes, sifting flour and many other things! 

We got our first package! Thanks, Mimi & Pa! 

Family movie night! The girls were more interested in their ice cream & movie than in the camera. 

We love to read books . . . and we like to cuddle even though it means we all sweat! 

Justin made sourdough pancakes this morning! Yummy!