Back to the fabric souk…
Posted by Stewart in Friends & Family, Godwin life in Kuwait, The mind of Stew... on 19. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
So last week my friend Gary had to get a tux made for an upcoming event. He’d never been to the souk before and had roped Jennifer into helping him pick out fabric too – she’s good but I think she’s charging for her consulting services now so no more freebies! I tagged along as [...]
First Annual FOG Father Daughter Valentine Formal
Posted by Stewart in Anita-centric, Friends & Family, Godwin life in Kuwait, World-o-Sydney on 11. Feb, 2012 | 2 Comments
So last night was the big night – the first annual Friends of Guiding Father Daughter Valentine Formal. It was a HUGE hit! The girls came in their finest party dresses, dad’s in tuxes, there were prom pictures, a lavish buffet (full of spaghetti and chicken tenders so even the youngest had something to enjoy), [...]
Getting ready before the formal
Posted by Stewart in Friends & Family, Godwin life in Kuwait, World-o-Sydney on 11. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
So yesterday was the 1st Annual FOG Father Daughter Valentine Formal. It was lots-o-fun but more on that later. Anita and Jennifer had to go early to get things set up and that meant the girls had to go as well. Fortunately they worked a room into their deal with the Crowne Plaza so they [...]
Braving the fabric souk
Posted by Stewart in Friends & Family, Godwin life in Kuwait, The mind of Stew... on 30. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
So if you’ve lived here in Kuwait for more than 15 minutes you’ve probably run across someone who will tell you how easy (“cheap”) it is to have custom tailored clothes made here. For the most part that’s not an entirely inaccurate statement. That doesn’t mean that you can just wander around town and stumble [...]
After school in Lego City
Posted by Stewart in Friends & Family, Godwin life in Kuwait, Lego, World-o-Sydney on 26. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
Tonight is the Guiding Sleepover in celebration of British Girlguides in Foreign Countries being 100 years old. Anita has been organizing it for the last couple of weeks in her capacity with FOG – not for nothing but catering dinner, snack, breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, and cake for 100+ girls is not exactly a cake [...]
Follow Me!
Posted by Stewart in Friends & Family, Holidays on 29. Dec, 2011 | 0 Comments
No, that has nothing to do with Twitter nor Facebook. It’s the motto of the US Army Infantry! It also happens to the be the name of the statue that sits outside the main entrance to the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center in Columbus, GA. We visited the museum a couple of summers ago and it [...]
Chirstmas Eve Open House
Posted by Stewart in Friends & Family, Godwin life in Kuwait, Holidays on 24. Dec, 2011 | 5 Comments
So every year we try to have a little open house on Christmas Eve. It’s really casual – just come and hang out, have a drink, grab a bite, listen to some carols – Christmas cheer all around. Well this year was spectacular. We had a great group of friends over, everyone seemed to have [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted by Stewart in Friends & Family, Godwin life in Kuwait, Holidays on 24. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
This year we were very thankful for having ben invited over to Paul & Jennifer’s place for turkey day! We had a goal of having the house together enough to host our usual Thanksgiving dinner at our place. However, when the 1st of the month rolled around it was clear we just couldn’t get there [...]
Amy’s ‘Come as your favorite A’ Birthday Party
Posted by Stewart in Friends & Family, Godwin life in Kuwait, World-o-Sydney on 10. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
One of Sydney’s best friends from school is Amy O’Kane who’s birthday is very close to Sydney’s. So close that today was her birthday party which had what I thought was an EXCELLENT theme. You were to come dressed as your favorite “A”. I was thinking the usual stuff – apple, acrobat, artist. Sydney, however, [...]
Merry Majorisms…
Posted by Stewart in Friends & Family, Godwin life in Kuwait, Holidays on 15. Dec, 2010 | 2 Comments
So most of y’all reading this will know Ryan. However, if you’ve never spent any time with him you may have missed out on what his former Kuwait based minions dubbed “Majorisms”. Ryan has a definite skill for turning a phrase and more than a few will end up sticking with you. That being said there is [...]