It is Hot!!! How hot you ask??? DAMN Hot!!! 106 today with nights cooling down to 95. Things have been moving fast and we are trying to catch our breath. School starts on Sunday and we are doing our best to get our rooms/curriculum AND our boys ready for a new school, culture, schedule,all without a car as there is no public transportation here. We aren't used to being so dependent on others so we are adjusting to this new feeling of helplessness when it comes to getting from point A to point B. The boys continue to thrive in their new environment and we couldn't be happier for them. We hope to have a drivers license in the next week which will be quite an experience, so we hear. Only American expats have to actually take a road test while everyone else just shows their license from home and gets one for here. Fingers crossed that all goes well with that because the roads and driving here is enough to give a person a heart attack!!! Speeding, round abouts everywhere, blurs whizzing by every which way...it's enough to make me cry. But I plan on being a pro in no time. We had a dinner to go to for work last week and the boys had a wonderful babysitter by the name of Rebecca. They are requesting that she come back again and loved that she played games with them and was a lot of fun. We loved that when we got home at 8:30, they had brushed their teeth and were sound asleep in bed.
The weekend is upon us and has been quite relaxing. The boys found their very own cupboard space on our ridiculously empty kitchen which made for extra fun just when they thought they had run out of creative mischief. I had coffee with our awesome upstairs neighbors, Cherie and Anthony, getting more of the scoop on shopping, kid activities, clinics, and Emergency room info, just in case. AND boy oh boy was it ever a good thing because Jay was playing laser tag with his friend in the house when I returned and sure enough, he mysteriously split his adorable toe open, with blood everywhere. Poor baby! We still haven't a clue what happened outside of his toe turning to hamburger, but Adam is determined to solve this mystery. We went to the hospital straight away and are awaiting the little man's stitching of his toe back together. It's really not that bad but this Mama sure feels some serious empathy for her brave boy. On a positive note, we know where the hospital is and are experiencing a new part of the city :)
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| Work dinner with our New Zealand colleagues |
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| Got my MacBook Pro from school and am loving it |
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| My office is under construction and will hopefully be ready to go by Sunday. I'm so excited to actually have my own office :) |
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| McDonald's at the mall |
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| Riding the bus with their buddy from New Zealand |
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| The cat who lounges outside of our house. |
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| Cupboard Fun!!! |
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| More friends from school child care. |
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| Toe Mishap |
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| Dinner Date |
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| The stitches |
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| The finished product |
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| Al Ahli hospital was like a hotel....quite nice. |
Just found your posts. Looks very as my girls would say "An Adventure". Jon keep me in the loop as you transition back into school. Miss having you, Ben and so many others at school this year. Start Real Men next Thursday.
ReplyDeleteYou and yours are in my prayers!
Wayne