Melkam Genna

Melkam Genna! Merry Ethiopian Christmas everyone!

It’s been a busy day, but a lovely day to celebrate Ethiopian Christmas. We woke to big, beautiful, fluffy snowflakes falling, making it a pretty Genna morning.

We also had a playdate today with That Baby’s buddy Austin and his mom, Stinkerbelle’s Auntie Sandy. The kids played hard, running and dancing and having a grand old time. Both were pooped right out by the time naptime came along. The adults were pooped too, mostly from chasing after busy toddlers and eating giant sammiches from Vincenzo’s.

Stinkerbelle is also learning about Emotions (Which Are Good And Healthy) today, in that every single time Auntie Sandy picked Austin up, That Baby cried, overcome with Teh Sad that somebody was taking her playmate away from her. (She also cries whenever we have to stop playing or dancing or watching her shows to go for a diaper change these days, because she never wants to break from playing. But that is OKAY, BECAUSE EMOTIONS ARE GOOD AND HEALTHY.)

*ahem*

Good times.

And right now, there’s a big batch of doro wat simmering on the stove, and a dozen eggs waiting to be peeled and added to it. My eyeballs are fit to fall right out of my head from the fumes from a few diced onions, but it will be well worth it come dinner time. All that remains to be done is to put on a big pot of rice.

When BDH gets home, we’ll settle Stinkerbelle in her highchair for dinner, and give her her present — traditionally, in Ethiopia, it’s clothing, and so we bought her some jammies. After that, we’ll tuck into our doro wat and try not to stuff ourselves as there is still exercise to be done (we’re on day 7 of our 100 Day Challenge, v. 2.0, for those of you keeping score).

I think I will crash into bed and sleep well tonight.

So Melkam Genna to one and all!