i've gotten so completely out of the habit of blogging. there are a multitude of reasons for this...none of which i will go into...but i'm going to try and get back on this wagon.
our days here are far from mundane. i just rarely take the time to tell about them...
the kids woke up around 6:30, but didn't really get angry about not having breakfast until closer to 7:30. we are still on summer vacation...even though it isn't actually summer here. however, if i said winter vacation, no one on either side would have any idea what i am talking about. as they don't say winter vacation here at all....it's term holiday or something like that. that being said, for the sake of this blog, i will say that we are indeed still on "summer" vacation. now keep in mind that since we had teams here from the time school let out, back in may, until late july....we technically just got started on this break.
ANYWAY..... we didn't get out of bed until closer to 8....and that was quite wonderful. we had a container that was supposed to be delivered at 8, and a long term team that is here with another organization that was supposed to be here at 9 to help unload. because of all of this, randy and i didn't get to go for our morning walk/run. at this point i am going to just say that i cannot wait until christmas time when we can run in oklahoma and texas where the ground is flat. the mountains here are so completely brutal, and everyday i swear that i will never walk/run them again...but i do...because i like to eat and stay in my current clothing size all at the same time. anyway, it's safe to say that randy got his workout in anyway...unloading and storing containers of food is quite a calorie burner. unfortunately for me, the most energy i exerted was the excitement i gave out when i realized how good of shape the pallets were in that the food was stored on in the container. truly, these pallets are in magnificent shape and i hope to build much awesomeness with them. you know you live in africa when.....
moving on...... yesterday we went to the manzini market and bought about 70 lbs of potatoes, carrots, apples and bananas. sooo, i decided to make hash browns out of the potatoes and then freeze them so that we can have an easy breakfast every now and again. that kept me busy for about and hour or so this morning while randy and the team were unloading all of the food from the container. after that i took hudson and olivia to meet some friends, who are also on break, to see a movie. when the little kids and i got back to the house, griffin noticed that the monkeys were coming up onto the back porch. this is very unusual because our dogs do a really great job of keeping the monkeys away. the seeing of the monkeys prompted the question, where are the dogs?!?! i started asking around and no one had seen them all day. the dogs are able to get out on their own....and we know sometimes they do, but usually they come back in a timely manner. nonetheless, i had to deal with the monkeys myself....well, i asked randy to help. there were a LOT of them after all. so anyway, while i'm chasing away the monkeys, i realize that they had gotten into the bananas, which randy and the team were eating as a morning snack outside. that really made me angry and the chasing of the monkeys became more hysterical. not hysterical ha ha, but hysterical me yelling and screaming and clapping my hands in efforts to scare them away. we scared them off and found maverick and ranger. a successful day by all accounts...but it wasn't quite over.
some friends came over to borrow something before they left for johannesburg and she asked me if i needed anything. i told her if she happened upon cocoa butter or shea butter, i would very much like some....as i want to make my own lip balm. :) go ahead and chalk that up to a good idea that i've spent considerable time researching.
after the container was unloaded and all of the food was stored, our friend eric and his wife stopped by the house. when they came inside they saw all of my 70 lbs of fruits and vegetables. eric asked me if i was selling them. i laughed... buying in bulk isn't the norm around here....he thinks we are hysterical. like hysterical ha ha. so then we all had a glass of juice over good conversation, which is where i began to share another one of my good ideas. goat's milk! because raw milk is superior to store bought milk and because milk is close to $6 a gallon here....i figure it would be a great way to save money and drink healthy! eric thought me a little crazy at first....but i think i have him sold! i think i had him at goat cheese..... which i was told how to make at lunch today by one of the girls who helped us unload the container. it's like it was meant to be. really.
so in summary, i made hash browns from some of my bulk potatoes. i explained my need for shea butter or cocoa butter for the making of my own lip balm. i chased monkeys. i "learned" how to make goat cheese. i convinced someone to buy a goat. i can go to bed now.
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