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<\/p>\nI am a bit late in posting this because we were away this weekend (which is when I usually write my blog posts). We decided to hit the road for a weekend away in Nelspruit with our friend Joe. We didn’t do anything spectacular, but scouted out some Christmas gifts, ate some yummy food (that I did not have to prepare or wash the dishes from), and purchased some tortilla chips and salsa! It was great to get away and we were even able to sneak in a few baths for Mikayla (and myself)!<\/p>\n
As far as the past week goes, we had a pretty slow week. Ben stayed busy with work and Mikayla and I fell into a pretty good routine. While the sisters are away they asked us to feed one of the healthcare patients they feed each day, Nkosingphile. He is one of our clients that requires higher need than most and the sisters have taken on this task. So we began each morning with cooking some sausage, buttered bread, fruit and a side or two (beans, rice, potatoes). While I cooked, Mikayla enjoyed putting together his "goodie bag". He takes home some bread, fruit, sweets (candy) and biscuits (cookies) each day. After he was taken care of we would begin school, then play for a bit before lunch. After lunch she would take her nap while I worked on house stuff, preschool planning and any other Cabrini type work that needed taken care of. When she wakes up we head to the hostel for play time with the kids and after school enrichment program. Then it is time for dinner, shower and bed! I am loving being back into somewhat of a routine. Of course, not each day is so set in stone, but at least it gives us something to guide our days!<\/p>\n
We received a special mailer this week from some folks that used to attend Broadway UMC with us. Their daughter’s class is sending out Traveling Charlie’s (similar to Flat Stanley if you are familiar with him) all around the world and she decided to send him to us. Traveling Charlie is a paper cutout that she decorated and we keep him for a week or two. While we have him we snap some pictures around our area. We mail our pictures and letter or postcard back to the school before mailing Traveling Charlie off to someone else. Each child in the classroom does the same thing. The goal is to have letters and pictures from all over the country and world. It is actually a really fun idea and one that I am excited to participate in. Mikayla is excited too. We have already snapped some pictures and I hope to blog about our whole experience when we are through!<\/p>\n
Not much else to report, it was a pretty quiet week around here!<\/p>\n
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Mikayla dressed herself for school last week. I always love the outfits she comes up with!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am a bit late in posting this because we were away this weekend (which is when I usually write my blog posts). We decided to hit the road for a weekend away in Nelspruit with our friend Joe. We didn’t do anything spectacular, but scouted out some Christmas gifts, ate some yummy food (that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-weeks-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}