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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Jessica at MAC Cosmetics with #Linky

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Party Linky #199!

Jessica turned 18 last month during her midterm high school exams. It was a stressful time for her, so she didn't want to go out and do anything. At the end of her exams she organized two days in Cape Town with her closest friends. They went ice-skating, to the movies and more!

Then last week my mother-in-law took her for a belated birthday outing to Cape Town where she made an appointment for her at MAC Cosmetics to learn how to apply make-up and the right make-up for her complexion. The photo of Jessica above was taken by my mother-in-law at MAC. The two photos below are of Jessica after she applied her new make-up herself at home the next evening.

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On the Road to Gordon's Bay

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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Kitten Meets Dog and More!

Welcome to my Picture Perfect
Party Linky #84!

You can link your family friendly
photo post below.

Here's Amanda's kitten, Sheela, meeting

our family dog for the first time. I

shared photos of Prince meeting Benny

for the first time, but I never shared

these ones of little Sheela.

These were taken a year ago.

When we first adopted Prince

from the animal shelter, we

were told it was a girl, so

Samantha named him Tabitha.

Later, when we discovered

that he was a boy, we

changed his name to Prince.

To see all the photos on this post,

visit Benny Meets Tabitha.

Amanda has a special bond with

her cat, Sheela. This is one

of my favorite old photos

of the two of them.

To see all the photos on this post,

visit Amanda sleeping with her kitten.

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Drive to Cape Town

Here's my favorite photo from my latest post,

On the Road - Part 3. There are plenty more

awesome photos that you won't want to miss,

so come check them out at 1camera1mom!

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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Saturday Morning Fun

What do you do with your kids on a Saturday morning?

Amanda still needs help getting dressed in the mornings and since we’re having winter below the equator, I need to make sure she’s dressed warmly. It was dark outside and everyone was still in bed when Amanda got me up this morning. Normally, after taking her to the toilet and dressing her, I’d put on the TV and leave her watching children’s programs, but not this morning. She saw her Disney princess magnetic dress-up dolls at the coffee table and asked me to take turns with her dressing Cinderella. How could I say no? We played with that until Samantha came through. Samantha was happy to join Amanda and I took the opportunity to go and do something else.

Disney Princess Magnetic Wooden Dress-Up Doll Set

A little bit later, Amanda found me at my computer. When I saw her standing next to me, I remembered the e-book I had downloaded onto my PC yesterday called Amanda Finds Her Manners by Cindy Adkins. Amanda Finds Her Manners is about a lively girl who attends a fancy tea party and tries desperately to remember her manners. But, the harder she tries, the more she makes mistakes! This book is already a Bestseller! It's an e-book for ages 4-8 on Amazon. Sorry, but there are no illustrations, except for its sweet cover.

E-book on Amazon

Amanda hadn’t heard the story yet, so I put her on my lap and double clicked on my free Kindle app. When it downloaded to my computer, it came with three free classic books: Aesop’s Fables, Pride and Prejudice, and Treasure Island.

Amanda was very excited to hear her name in the story. At first she wondered if it was about her, but I explained that the girl had the same name. To make the story more fun for a 4-year-old, I got her to act out some of the things like to wiggle her nose when the bunny wiggled its nose. She stayed on my lap for the whole story and happily bounded off to a new activity once it was finished.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend with your family and don’t forget to read to your kids!

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Friday, April 27, 2012

Girls and Hair

When Amanda was 1 and 2 years old, she had the curliest head of hair. Even if I washed it and dried it with a hairdryer and hairbrush, making it go straight, within 10 minutes the hair would bounce back into curls like little springs. I loved it. I was a little worried when it came time to her first haircut. I wasn’t sure if we would lose all those lovely curls. A friend, who used to be a hairdresser, came over and did our hair for us. Now, a few years later, Amanda still has curly hair, but it’s heavier than before, so it doesn’t curl as much as it did when she still had that baby-fine hair.

Back in middle school, I had a realization about girls and hair. Those who had curly hair envied girls with straight hair and girls with straight hair envied girls with curly hair. I decided back then that no matter what type of hair I had, I would be happy with it. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t try the crazy 80’s perm look.

Now I have 3 girls and they each have different hair. Samantha has the straightest hair out of all of us and she sometimes wishes she had Jessica’s wavy hair. Jessica, on the other hand, wanted and received a hair straightener for her last birthday. As you see, what I noticed about the female race while growing up is still true today.

You might like to read my blog post “Eye Color Conversation,” which discusses the topic of “How important is eye color to you?”

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Eye Color Conversation

Jeremiah with his little sister, Amanda

Recently, Amanda was sitting on the couch with her brother and they were having a conversation. She looked at him and said, “I didn’t know your eyes are green.”

Her brother answered, “Everyone in our family has green eyes.”

Amanda then opened her eyes wide and replied, “I can’t see my eyes!”

How important is eye color to you? I can still remember hearing the missionary story of Amy Carmichael from my childhood days at Sunday school. When Amy was a young girl, she used to pray and ask God to give her blue eyes. She loved her brother’s blue eyes and was sad that she had brown ones. Amy had great child-like faith, but when God didn’t answer her prayers, she was deeply disappointed.

It was only many years later, as a missionary to India, that Amy understood God’s wisdom in creating her with brown eyes. A white lady with blue eyes would have stood out as different. She didn’t want her physical appearance to be a hindrance in reaching the Indians, so she chose to dress like them and look like them, sometimes even dying her skin with tea to make it darker.

Another reason why it was important for her to blend in was that she was doing a dangerous job. She had discovered that young girls were being sold into temple prostitution and she began “stealing” them to safety. Under Amy’s care many young women’s lives were transformed.

I would like to leave you with a quote by Amy Carmichael.