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Translation : Your Christ is Jewish, your coffee is African, your pizza is Italian, your democracy is Greek , your holiday is Turkish , your potato is South American, your number system is Arabic , and your car is Japanese . How then can your neighbor be foreign? Stop racism!🙏🏾. #from1995 #edekasupermarket #stillappliesin2017 . tak for lån @clintdawg 😊 (at Ramundsvej)

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Praying for peace in Kenya AS They vote today

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My Angel collection is now totally upgraded with these Beautiful gifts from mama Nora ❤️#blessed #acollectorsthing #collectorsdelight #collectingangels

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Burthday in Kenya for the first time in 17 years . Was in webuye and i felt so much love from My Mom and grandma , sublings , relatives and friends ..ABD and irenes Crew were missed but i was celebrated Well . So even if Im spending today packing .. its ALL GOOD! ❤️ (at Webuye Town)

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Always making sure that there Is Mango and tamarind surprise for the kidos, some Mornings before i go to Work. Simple things in life #africanmom #tamarind #

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My mom has always loved helping those in need . The children of Hope baptist church are lucky to have you 🙏🏾😊🔆❤️#hope #hopebaptistchurch #webuye #childrenofhope #shegiveshope

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AFRICA DAY🔆🔆🔆 #AfricaDay #since1963 #celebrateafrica #fortheloveofafrica .... and Elroy biked today for the first time 🚴🏿❤️

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I love Our front yard every summer #petals #sommerishere #summerincopenhagen #mitkbh #metroexpress #pinkandgreen #nature (at Copenhagen, Denmark)

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Last drawing for great grandmama ❤️🙏🏾❤️

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Seen in Copenhagen . Some Cops are Ok

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Deli lookin but stone hard . Hubby gota be a mango expert by now ! Given that he stays with 4 mango lovers !.. He tried tho but arrrrrrr!

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Going to Work on a sunny sunday morning . Would rather go to Church and Then do a barbecue with my family . But Duty calls .

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Memory lane

Some situations take me back memory lane and make me think of how things used to be back when i was in Kenya – two birthdays with bonfires and a hut did the trick.

Reminiscing

When we got to my niece’s birthday it was like  for a split of a second, everything  around me vanished and i was back in Kenya 10 years old and answering to my mom calling me. She wants me to light up the fire so we can get ready to cook dinner. I rush out go pick up firewood, and head straight home to get the "Jiko"(fireplace or cooker) started. The smoke was my worst enemy. No matter how much i rubbed my eyes, or closed my mouth, the smoke still crawled in and made cough like mad and IRRITATED my eyes like it was being paid! 

It looked almost like this: 

Back then i hated the smoke, but today i knew that no matter how much the smoke irritated my eyes or made my clothes and hair smell, i knew was going to leave at some point and go to the comfort of my home.

PS: We used to say that if smoke follows you too much, then that meant that you shit on the road.  Today the smoke was aggressive, as we made pancakes. And i couldn't help smile when the smoke followed one or two people that day.   

By choice, not by necessity As i sat on a log next to the bonfire fire to warm myself up, while eyeing the sausages on the grid iron, i remembered how necessary it all was back then. The hut was my home, the bonfire was my only means of cooking food and the toilet with a hole in the ground was my normal. But here i was doing  it all for pleasure, a get away from everyday “normal life”. My lil boy was running around peeing on every tree he could find( normal for a boy until he is too old  and can't stand by himself , true?)

This kind of living is still somebody else's normal. Just because i have another normal, doesn't mean that i forget how it used to be or how it is for someone else right now.  

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Another “wild” birthday

My nieces birthday was coming up and it was gona be held in the Woods . Two birthdays in the Nature within the same weekend! The innner City chick in me worried Stiff. Despite the fact that I was concerned about the weather, mud and bugs, i did put on a happy face, and absorbed it all with a positive mind. And guess what? The weather was on our side.

The place looked like this  

…The three musketeers( they are usually four but the smallest one is busy with soap bubbles below

The birthday princess in stripes playing with my son. Oh, and the shadows

Make your own Pancake time, rare, well done or burnt?

Not all pancakes made it to the plate,  and somehow these shoes  stayed clean, despite all the mud. I don't know how he did it.

My shoes didn’t

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147 lives lost

A moment of silence for the Kenyan students who lost their lives in Garissa

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Birthday in the “wild”

First of all, my hubby managed to convince me to have our sons birthday out in the nature . When i hear nature, I tend to immediately think of muddy shoes, mosquitoes, flies and the cold. I kind of saw the benefits of being out in the open with almost 20 guests with kids instead of being all crammed up in our small living space. I did get muddy shoes but the photos below says it all.

Making faces with the Birtthday boy

Grown ups had chilling moment

There was time to play although it Kinda looks like he is dancing :)

Gourmet standard 

The swag team

And the love birds

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Age

Age has taught me patience and to pick my fights cautiously. Be it with the kids, husband, at work, with friends or strangers. I have honestly learned to say “WHATEVER” and “breath in breath out” in my head. This has saved me from lots of drama. Age has taught me that i have to take one day at a time, one project at a time, one problem at a time. Otherwise i will end up with stress. I do happen to live in a country that has many stressed people, and that shit is infectious if you are not cautious!

Age has made me accept, love and appreciate myself more than I did. I used to think that by 34 i would be done for, but i have never felt more sexy, more sure of life and more ready for the future like now. I might now and then hate the changes that take place on my body, or surroundings but somehow i tend to be able to deal with it or accept it if it cant be changed. Age has finally become my friend, because i now count my blessings and feel like God has and is still blessing me with what i hoped for at this age; Life, a loving man, beautiful children, a job that i love, a body i am proud of  and courage to take on new challenges in life.

Age makes me look back at who i was and who i have become  and reminds me that i am not perfect.  Age doesnt wait ! Do i regret anything , damn yeah! But this journey called life ROCKS, the older i get ! .

Finally: . Blessed ones, Love yourself and be good to others.