In preparation, we've been making some big changes in our little household this week. We are pretty routine creatures around here...so I admit that it feels like we've been in uproar all day:)
1. Jude is now napping in his toddler bed. He should be freeing up the crib at nighttime within the next 2 weeks or so.
2. Have I mentioned that I love our apartment complex? It's really an amazing piece of respite in a very crazy country. They even have a little pre-school. Jude's slowly joining the ranks of play group kids this week so we'll have more concentrated time for language study after little bit arrives. We're easing into this, right now I'm going along for play too. We think he'll love it...eventually.
3. After putting the task off for months, we hired a househelper. Today was her first day. My neighbors will be so relieved. She doesn't speak a lick of English. But she washed all the pancake dishes this morning, cleaned the floors, wiped the counters, hung the laundry out, and as icing on the cake...cut a pineapple for me. I hate cutting pineapples more than all the rest of the chores, but I love to eat them.
4. We felt we'd done a great job using our new words to tell her everything she needed to know. When our language teacher arrived, she had a chat with her. She hadn't understood anything we said. And she was in great distress over our vacuum cleaner. Apparently, it's not very good for cleaning floors. We promptly took her to the store...where she requested this fine piece of machinery to make her life easier:
If that's all it takes?
Hopefully all the uproar will turn into a peaceful new routine..with a lot more helping hands just in time for Silas.
1 comments:
mawmaw and dad and i have been reading your blog this morning. we have decided that this is alot better then the hut you were gonna live in Africa! Mawmaw liked you flowy sari. She said see Lindsey. See how shes ALL WRAPPED UP!
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