Farewell Summer of 2012!

Greetings! The school year has started! After a three month summer break it is time to get back to work.  Abigail is really glad to be in first grade and is enjoying her new class.  The two kindergarten classes last  have been mixed up for first grade so she is getting to know her new classmates better and can play with her old friends at play time.  

Miriam, Matthew and Abigail

Matthew is back at pre-school.  There are only four children in his class from last year and the rest of the children are all new.  His best friend Miriam is now in kindergarten so he is having to make new friends. He is really enjoying it and I haven’t had any tears when it’s time to go.  His new pre-school bag has hand prints all over it, so he likes to call it his “hand-bag”.  Thankfully a hand-bag is more commonly referred to as a “purse” in America so it only makes Andy and I cringe! Lol!

Parent and toddlers started again last week and it was great to catch up with the mum’s and grandma’s after three months.  Yesterday we had a new mum with her five week old boy and 2 year old girl.  It’s is always exciting each week to see who is going to walk through the door.

Sam and Sommer with 20 month old Savannah
 

We enjoyed our friends from Florida last week for three days.  Sam is a pilot so he gets to fly for free.  They flew to Ohio last Tuesday and stayed till Friday.  I knew Sommer when she was just six years old when her family lived in Dunoon.  Her father was in the navy.  We have kept in touch since and it was so nice to see them and meet Savannah for the first time.  Sam is Puerto Rican so we had three different accents going on - fun!

Eilidh 10 weeks old.

Eilidh is growing fast and is starting to giggle which has all of us laughing as we listen to her.   She is in 3-6 month clothes a month early!   I am just up once through the night usually for an hour or so with her.   It is still like being pregnant in some ways with the disturbed sleep and trying to take naps in the afternoon to make up it.  It is certainly a challenge getting three children out the door for 8.45am and punctuality has gone from my vocabulary! House work is in the distance and there is a bag of paperwork needing urgent attention.  If I manage to get the washing done and the meals and dishes done then it has been a very successful day.:0) I’m blogging with one hand while putting Eilidh to sleep in the other arm – mum’s you will understand completely!:0)

 

Andy is busy as always in the hanger and preparing a few presentations for our return to the UK.   His jeep died a few weeks ago.  The breaks have been dangerously worn and the floor has rusted out so much that the front passenger chair has come loose from its bolts.  He could no longer take anyone for lifts or put any of the children in it as he only had one seat belt working.   A few weeks ago it broke down a few miles from home.  We only have one mobile which I had so he had to walk two miles home after a day’s work, part of which was in a thunderstorm.  Some of our MMS friends helped tow it back to our house where it is awaiting a further adventure to the scrap yard!  I am home bound for part of the week and Andy is relying on lifts for the other half when I have to take Matthew to preschool .  We have a loan of a car for a month during September while Jeff (another MAF apprentice) is away to Zambia.  He is going with our neighbour (who has been giving Andy the lifts) for the month on a rapid response trip.  We are so thankful Andy will have transport while our neighbour is away.