We had a couple of visitors over for dinners this week. The first was Joey, our friend working with Peace Corps. He came over on Sunday for some chicken and dumplings, green beans and an apple braid (you can read about it here). It was nice to catch up because we hadn’t seen him in a couple of weeks. Then on Wednesday we had a family from one of the organizations Cabrini works closely with (PACT) over for dinner. The family is getting ready to move to Tanzania, so this was a good bye dinner. Todd (the husband) is actually the person who hooked us up with Cabrini. When we first came to Swaziland over a year ago, we met with him to check out PACT. While there, he mentioned we should go and see the sisters – thinking that we would be a good fit. We did, and the rest is history! He has a lovely family and it was great to just sit back and relax for the evening. The sisters provided the food and we made chocolate cake for dessert.
We have been finding a lot of these little geckos in our house this week. I am not sure if it is the warmer weather that is attracting them or the fact that we had opened one of our windows that doesn’t have a screen! I don’t mind them too much. But the minute they end up in my bed is a different story. Mikayla loves to look at them and try to catch them, this week she succeeded (with a little help from daddy).
People aren’t kidding when they say they make creatures big in Africa. Check out this guy, a huge beetle looking creature.
Just a little perspective on how big he actually was. HUGE!!
On Saturday we celebrated Mother Cabrini with a Feast of Mother Cabrini. This is an annual event, but this year we were celebrating the 40th year of Cabrini in Swaziland. We had a special mass, complete with singing, dancing and readings from the kids, and a huge feast and party afterwards. Complete with dancing sisters!! I plan to do a large post on that this week, so I will save the juicy details until later. But I will mention that we have a dancing fool for a daughter! I don’t think she stopped moving once the music started! Not sure where that comes from.
Dancing with her friend Bayanza.
And just because I can, check out this beautiful girl! I found her laying on the couch like this – can we say Senior pose? Also look at her beautiful curls!
