Monday, August 13, 2018

A Day to Catch Up

This morning we woke up to David mowing lawn with his boys right outside of the room we're staying in.  This is the 1st time in the 3-4 weeks we've been here that the lawn has been mowed (I'm sure a lot of Wisconsinites are jealous).  The first week to two weeks were a dry spell here, but it has rained at least a little virtually every day since.

As we headed to the medium boys house, Noah saw a large grasshopper (locust?) on top of the newly painted water fountain that is outside the church.  Milton had been painting the water fountain, which was a white, to a deep blue.  Noah is fascinated by the creatures down here (and jumped last night when the girls put the dead snake from the church outside our door)...I think he gets that fascination from his dad.



After taking a picture of the grasshopper, we headed to the medium boys house and then to breakfast and then waited at school with the medium boys.  After a while, I headed over to the high school so that Almy Misel could braid my hair once again.  She does such an awesome job and the hair stays back all day long.  When school started, Miguel asked if I could do some last minute tutoring, since his math exam was going to take place after recess.  We sat in the library and went through the study guide I had given him.

I went back to our room during recess to relax my brain.  I have been pretty tired these past 2 days...to the point where I'm wondering if I'm catching something.  After resting a bit, I headed back to the school, just in case Miguel had any questions about the test.  He did have a couple, but not as many as I expected.  I found out later that he left 3 questions completely blank. 

After heading to lunch, I spent the afternoon in our room catching up on blogs.  If I am getting sick, I don't want to be passing it around, and I had quite a few days to catch up on.  When school ended, I walked to the medium boys house and spent time with them.  A box of underwear and socks had arrived on the container for them, so Fernando was sorting through them.  There were quite a few pairs of underwear that had to get passed up to the big boys house and the special needs boys because they were way too big, and there were a couple of packages of socks that had to get passed to the power toddlers house because they were way to small...but overall there were quite a few pairs that stayed at this house with the medium boys.  I found out that I am not the only one that has problems with boys not separating their clothes when they wash them...these boys got a talking to as well about separating their clothes and how they are not supposed to wash jeans with underwear and socks, and that whites get washed separately.

When it was time for supper, we headed to the Comedor and afterward the boys got to go to the yard outside the church (which is very close to our room) to play until bedtime.  When it was time to head in, I caught up on a few more blog postings.  Uploading pictures tends to take forever!  Noah spent an hour or so playing with the 2 younger Miller children in the playground by the school.