It has been a while since my last post. Christmas and New Years just seemed to fly by. So to answer every ones usual question, No we have not heard anything yet. Still waiting. We are hoping that based on the current time lines maybe we might know something this summer. That, however, is just a guess on my part.
Ainsley is still as patient as ever. She draws pictures with her and her sister in it and is still saving objects and toys for her.
January 7th was Ethiopian Christmas which is known as Genna. It is also the Christmas holiday celebrated by the Orthodox Christian faith. In honor of that, we celebrated with a traditional Ethiopian dinner. One of Jim's co workers helped out tremendously and provided a lot of the food. I also got out my new African cookbook and learned how to make several dishes. Our menu consisted of injera bread, honey bread, tibs wett (beef stew), doro wett(chicken stew), lentils, pomegranate rice and collard greens. The food was absolutely amazing. Injera is a sourdough flat bread and when you combine it with each dish the flavours are unlike anything I have ever tried before. Each recipe uses at least 5-6 different spices lending to an amazing taste and smell to the food. We had a blast. You don't use any utensils so you eat everything by picking it up with the injera bread and you only use your right hand.
A good time was had by all who attended.
I will try to post a little more frequently now. It is kinda hard because we don't really have any news yet!
Happy New Year to all!
