What have I learnt so far?
That it isimpossible very difficult to blog everyday when a small human being depends on you for nourishment, entertainment and prefers you are mostly within her lines of vision [unless she's sleeping] on weekends...and you also enjoy doing that AND need to nourish and entertain yourself with her.
I owe you guys 3 posts now! You will get them I promise! As I type this one I already have tomorrow's *insert salsa dancing lady emoji*.
Today was HOT (upper 80s) and we started the morning sleeping in a bit. We got up to get ready per the usual when my cousin called saying he wanted to take us (his niece really lol) to the farmer's market in DC so we ended up doing that. We went to the Union Market area where there are a lot of wholesale fruit, veggie, meat and all sorts of in between vendors only to find them closed so we ended up going into Union Market itself. We walked around to choose something to eat and settled on Takorean. So good! Afterwards....well earlier when looking for parking we'd seen 2 guys taking pictures in one of the graffiti'd alleys so we decided to do the same. My cousin loves his car and is into that type of thing so me too I joined in. I remembered #afrofoto and that I was WAAAAY due for a post so I thought hey me too let me get some pictures in here. It was stiiiinkyyy in that alley, but because I love you guys I endured it :) I love how the pictures turned out with absolutely no filter 💗!
She definitely got the bag herself when she went to Tanzania while my mom lived there and Kilimo Kwanza, in Swahili, means Agriculture First. I'm not quite sure if it may have been promotional for something or just was like that at purchase. What I love about it is how durable it is! It's made of woven rafia (i think) material and reinforced along the edges and straps with fabric so it does not give no matter what you put in it. I also love the wide strip of kikoi on the front with the fringe uncut. I used to use this as my bag at work, but retired it for something else in the rotation. Today I came full circle back to it for the market because it could fit my baby necessities, wallet AND I'd have been able to add whatever we would have gotten.
Happy Sunday folk and may you go into the new week with new energy, joy and focus....says the person typing a blog post at a quarter to midnight on Sunday night and hasn't finished packing the baby bag for the baby sitter because it's better to let the baby sleep than end up waking her up accidentally for that. Yes...!
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*@afropolitaine*
That it is
I owe you guys 3 posts now! You will get them I promise! As I type this one I already have tomorrow's *insert salsa dancing lady emoji*.
Today was HOT (upper 80s) and we started the morning sleeping in a bit. We got up to get ready per the usual when my cousin called saying he wanted to take us (his niece really lol) to the farmer's market in DC so we ended up doing that. We went to the Union Market area where there are a lot of wholesale fruit, veggie, meat and all sorts of in between vendors only to find them closed so we ended up going into Union Market itself. We walked around to choose something to eat and settled on Takorean. So good! Afterwards....well earlier when looking for parking we'd seen 2 guys taking pictures in one of the graffiti'd alleys so we decided to do the same. My cousin loves his car and is into that type of thing so me too I joined in. I remembered #afrofoto and that I was WAAAAY due for a post so I thought hey me too let me get some pictures in here. It was stiiiinkyyy in that alley, but because I love you guys I endured it :) I love how the pictures turned out with absolutely no filter 💗!
(no filter no nothing)
This basket-bag was my late grandmother's and I got it from her while she was still alive. She'd already been in the States for 2 years undergoing treatment at that point with my grandfather coming and going between here and Zimbabwe months at a time. At some point while he was in Zim, I decided to go and visit him since he was mostly in the house alone and it had been a while since I'd seen him/been in Zim. This bag was in the closet in the room that used to be mine as a kid and is always where I stay when I go. I really liked the bag so coming back I used it as my carry on to hold those extra things we somehow accumulate despite having come/traveled light. My grandmother and I would be on the phone coordinating the things she wanted me to bring back for her and there was quite a bit.
She definitely got the bag herself when she went to Tanzania while my mom lived there and Kilimo Kwanza, in Swahili, means Agriculture First. I'm not quite sure if it may have been promotional for something or just was like that at purchase. What I love about it is how durable it is! It's made of woven rafia (i think) material and reinforced along the edges and straps with fabric so it does not give no matter what you put in it. I also love the wide strip of kikoi on the front with the fringe uncut. I used to use this as my bag at work, but retired it for something else in the rotation. Today I came full circle back to it for the market because it could fit my baby necessities, wallet AND I'd have been able to add whatever we would have gotten.
Happy Sunday folk and may you go into the new week with new energy, joy and focus....says the person typing a blog post at a quarter to midnight on Sunday night and hasn't finished packing the baby bag for the baby sitter because it's better to let the baby sleep than end up waking her up accidentally for that. Yes...!
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*@afropolitaine*
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