My Life

  The past week and today has been so crazy for us here at work. On one hand we celebrated that we had very potential clients for the kids furniture while on the other, we were greatly disappointed by one client and by one supplier. Stay with me as I vent out please. A couple walked in last week, Wednesday and the lady introduced herself to me and explained that we had earlier communicated with her regarding a pink bunk bed.  Bunk beds are hot cakes and we had sold out the pink model she wanted but had another that she agreed to take.  After consulting amongst themselves,they promised that the husband would come back to make the payment on Thursday and actually drew for us a map to their house for delivery on Saturday. On Thursday, I went to our warehouse and we put aside the items they had selected((it sounds quite easy but it took u)s 4 hours and organised for transport for Saturday morning. As we wound up, the client's husband called and without apology he jokingly s...

Today is exactly 2 months from the date of surgery. Baby gal is doing very well and our isolation of 8 weeks is over and that calls for lots of celebration. She also finishes her multivitamin tomorrow and am so excited, to have a time when she doesn't have to take any medication. Samara doesn't fuss about taking medicine and that used to scare me a lot. On one hand I was grateful we didn't have to force her to take it(just give her the medicine in its cup and she gulps it in),  was uncomfortable with how easily she took it all in as I always declared that was not her portion(the fears and struggles of a mum, I guess). Well, 2 months post operation she has added weight, she is sleeping through the night, stopped breastfeeding, talking alot and we looking forward to her celebrating her second birthday on 7th January 2012. We have so much to be thankful for and we are happy and content. http://pinterest.com/ruth_h/the-faces-of-chd-congenital-heart-awareness-week-f/

One thing I have come to appreciate about life is that whatever challenges or issues we go through, they are not for us but for others. I have also appreciated that many people like taking advantage of your ignorance and therefore information is power and I hope that you can learn from me and avoid same mistakes that I did. Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending free KRA Seminar at 5th Floor Times Tower. The seminar runs from 8.30a.m. to 1p.m.. They educate the common taxpayer be it self employed, company or even non-residents on tax obligations and so when the KRA officers visit you, you know your rights and obligations. The seminars are held monthly and the schedule is normally on the KRA Website.If you can please attend especially if you starting or are in business. When we finished the seminar, I felt such relief because there are a few people who have been making my life miserable with threats of outrageous penalties that were giving me nightmares. Please note when you re...

Isn't it amazing how drama always finds you when you least expect it? On Friday afternoon I received a call from my friend Carol and she told me she was in a clinic in town and was in lots of pain. I told her to keep me posted on what she is told and that I would go see her later. So I packed my things in preparation for the Saturday exhibition and then drove into town. There was Nairobi University graduation on that day and traffic in town was crazy but thankfully I got  parking next to the clinic at 3p.m. We sat with Carol from 3p.m. to about 5.30p.m. being given excuses as to why the test results were not out. This is a story for another day but to cut the long story, we left that clinic at afew minutes to 7 and headed for Nairobi Hospital. We were able to see a doctor and were headed to our home with Carol at 11p.m. My Saturday was crazy and I requested my housegal and another friend to keep an eye on Carol as I would be out of the house the whole day. That evening, when we g...

Have you ever put your heart into something and it fails so hard and it hurts? Well my Saturday was so disappointing I couldn't even believe it myself. When we came from India, I got an email from a friend saying there would be a kids events in December. Naturally I got excited because for us its an opportunity to display our furniture and also interact with parents and let them know about SAS Impressions www.sasimpressions.com . So we got into lengthy discussions with the event organisers and had a deal. The same Saturday there was also another event targeting mums at a diffrent venue. I talked to the organisers and luckily they allowed me to distribute our fliers for free. Thank God for relatives because I had marshalled my sister Purity and cousin Monica to help us. Anyways Saturday morning came and we were at the first event by 8.30a.m only to find that it had rained heavily the previous night and the grounds were soaking wet, the tents were in place but the organisers wanted...

I must say that year was one mixed bag. It had many ups and downs but am just excited that the year is coming to a close. This morning I woke up feeling very thankful to God. He has been so faithful, the highlight being seeing Samara and us through the surgery. We saw miracles and favour. He helped us raise funds, he helped us get to Miot Hospitals safely, He took baby gal through the surgery and the recovery process was amazing and fast. We experienced such favour in the hospital like we stayed in one of the best rooms fro the 15days we were there, the nurses, doctors and support staff were friendly and made our stay much better. So am just happy to say that God is faithful and He carries us through the hard times in our lives. Only after we have gone through do we look back and declare that it was by His grace, mercies and goodness that we have passed the hurdles. Hope you will be encouraged to know that even when people do not seem to understand or care enough or as you would want...

I studied International Business Administration and majored in marketing while doing my undergraduate. We did Intercultural communication and despite enjoying the class, at the time I wasn't sure where we would apply the lessons learned. Here I am many years later and really appreciating what was taught. Do you recall learning how different cultures/countries have major differences in their attitudes towards time, business, communication i.e. like some may want to be so close while talking to you, while others prefer to be given space, for others business meetings are punctual while some they are delayed etc. Anyways, last month we had taken baby girl for surgery in India and just before we left, I got a chance to do some shopping for our kids shop. I was lucky to have a taxi guy take me around and even help translate for me where need be.One store agreed to keep the luggage for us on the basis that someone would collect the boxes and send them to Mumbai on my behalf. Before ...