Drew’s Backyard Adventures

One of the really fun things about living in Haiti is that the kids play outside all the time. We never did that to this extent in Florida as it was too hot and the kids were too young to go out alone. The kids are a little older now and in many ways it’s safer here where we live. It’s hotter here then Florida most of the year, but when your house is not air conditioned, outside is where you want to be. Drew is my creative child. He finds all kinds of ways to make outside play fun. Our yard isn’t huge, but it’s got plenty of room to play. It kind of just ends at a cliff. Down below that cliff is the part of our yard where we have our vegetable garden. We only use about half of the garden space for planting, so Drew loves to play down there. We call it “down the cliff” or simply “anba” which means under or below in Creole. If I don’t see Drew right away, down the cliff is usually where I check first! For a long while he was ...