Thanksgiving 08

As usual, we drove 3 hours to see my in-laws in Cleveland to join in for the Thanksgiving dinner. Mom cooked the best turkey, macaroni and cheese, greens, ham, and mashed potatoes. The cornbread was delicious too. We took a bite here and there, sat for few hours, ate again, and finally we had rooms for the dessert. The kids had fun too!

Black Friday 2008

Black Friday, also known as the Day After Thanksgiving is the start of the holiday shopping season. This is the busiest shopping day of the year but also the best day to get the best deals. Americans take advantage of this day after Thanksgiving sales used to entail getting up early and waiting in line at 5 a.m. Visit this link to find the stores that have great deals:www.blackfriday.info

Happy Birthday Ndamona

Wishing you all the great things in life, hope this day will bring you an extra share of all that makes you happiest. Happy Birthday, and may all the wishes and dreams you dream today turn to reality. May this day bring to you all things that make you smile. Happy Birthday! Your best years are still ahead of you. May each and every passing year bring you wisdom, peace and cheer. Love you always Helvi

Screen Capture Tools

When I was asked to research, and give a report about screen capture tools, I had no idea how powerful these tools are. I have heard of screen cast before, and even opened up an account with them a while ago, but never really used it. Screen Cast works seamlessly with the Tech smith products like Camtasia Studio, and Jing Project. Camtasia Studio allows you to train your stuff using videos to PowerPoint presentations to lectures look better, and allow you to reach more people in a fast way. On the other hand, Jing allows you to take screen captures and recordings in just one click. The fun part is, every time you create a new capture or video with Jing, you can upload to Screencast.com. You can share or organize files. You can open a free account on screenshots.com that allows up to 2 GB of storage and 2 GB of transfer bandwidth per month. In short these tools allow you to publish, post, and show the world. To learn more go to:www.screencast.com I'll be posting my video soon. At the meantime, visit Berhane's blog and view one that I made with him.

Child basketball prodigy, how Cute!

Ndamona's first snow

I looked out the window this morning, and saw snow falling. Both Berhane and Ndamona were excited and ready to go out and play with the snowflakes.

Ndamona at piercing pagoda Nov 16th!

Look at my brave little girl!

All done!

How cute!

Lil' B had a fun day on his birthday!

At home, look at him all grown up

Took Lil' B to T.G. I Friday

Getting ready to go out

Happy Birthday Lil' B

Happy Birthday to you my dearest son! When I first brought you from the hospital in 04, I was so excited,and could not wait for you to try your new outfits, and I couldn't wait to see you start rolling over, When you started rolling, I could not wait to see your first smile, Once you showed us your first smile, I couldn't wait for you to start sitting, When you started sitting, I could not wait for you to start crawling, Once you mastered crawling, I was looking forward to see you standing, and walking Once you stood, and walked, I couldn't wait to see you running, and kicking the ball! Now four years old, and in preschool, you are doing so many activities. I believe this is what many other mothers do. We are so caught up in what is yet to happen Instead, enjoy the moment. I love you with all my heart. May all your good wishes come true! May God bless you!

Enjoy your day!

Ndamona @ Seven months

My baby girl turned 7 months November 1. I'm still breastfeeding, and have started giving her three meals everyday like rice cereal, squash, yum and much more. Ndamona sleeps through the night, but wakes up to eat every 2- 3 hours, then go right back to sleep;this is very tiring because I just get one to two hours sleep then baby girl wakes up again, feed her, then it might take me an hour to go back to sleep, by the time I sleep for an hour, she gets up again. I think she is old enough to sleep without eating at night. I don't think she's really hungry, I think it's more of a habit. I could have wait until she turns 9 -12 months to break the habit, but I'm overly tired. It's about time I get my full night sleep. It has been 11 months since I slept for at least 4 hours. Can you believe it? During January of 08, I was put on bed rest and took terbutaline (medicine to reduce the contractions) every 4 hours 24/7 until April. Once the baby arrived, she kept me up all days and all nights long. I started training her since this week Monday, but she kept winning me because I don't want to hear her cry for longer than an hour. I'm determined to see her sleeping without eating at night. Right now I wish for a 5 hour long sleep. Women are the most strong people on earth. When it come deep to it, even if I don't get enough sleep right now its ok, my kids come first and I know the sleepless night won't last forever; before I know it, I'll be asking Ndamona to stay awake to listen to my stories or watch a good movie with me.

CNN Reports Borack Obama elected President

Congratulations President - Elect Obama This is like a dream coming true to many people. Not in my wildest dream I thought I'll see a black President in USA in my life time. As we sat down at tonight watching the Election result, Obama took off strong. It was an exciting moment ever.

The month of November

We're listening to Christmas chorus at this moment. It's only November, but I'm already in the spirit. Christmas has always been my favorite fest since my childhood. I was so happy when I came to the States to learn that people start with the decorations around end of November. Some stores has started with the decorations already. Currently, I'm working on two kids books both Oshiwambo and English. I plan to finish these books before Christmas. I'm extremely busy these days, I don't know how I'm going to pull this off.

Air Cars: A New Wind for America's Roads?

by Jim Ostroff Thursday, October 30, 2008provided by

Courtesy of MDI

A new carmaker has a plan for cheap, environmentally friendly cars to be built all over the country

An air-powered car? It may be available sooner than you think at a price tag that will hardly be a budget buster. The vehicle may not run like a speed racer on back road highways, but developer Zero Pollution Motors is betting consumers will be willing to fork over $20,000 for a vehicle that can motor around all day on nothing but air and a splash of salad oil, alcohol or possibly a pint of gasoline.