This morning began with our normal routine of granola for Kaylyn, proffee for me, and arroz con leche with cookies for Jaden. Because there was a staff meeting after breakfast, there was no work for Jaden to do (since he is generally working with a staff member who can keep watch over him). So Jaden spent the morning in our room, sweeping, reading and napping. By the time we saw him at lunch, he said he was thoroughly bored.
Kaylyn went to the Toddler House at about 7am and I joined her at 8am. We were in the Chosa with the toddlers. There is a family of 4 here (mom and 3 kids) who came in June and will be leaving a week before we come home. The mom, April, is assigned to the Toddlers in the morning along with her 14 year old daughter Zoey. She has a 5 year old son, Micah, who generally spends every other day with the toddlers and the off days with the small boys since that is more his age group.
After lunch in the Comedor, Kaylyn and I headed back to the room because Alexander was sending some boys over to fix our slow draining sink in our bathroom. Alexander also brought over toilet paper and a garbage can for the bathroom.
Jaden went with Chino to the medium boys house where they had to rearrange furniture in the house as well as prune the bushes outside. When Jaden came to supper, he was excited to tell us that he saw his first tarantula, however at the instructions of Chino, another boys stepped on it and killed it. And he was even MORE excited to tell me he got to use a chainsaw. This shocked me a little bit that a 14 year old with not a lot of tool experience would get to use a chainsaw, so I prompted him with more questions about it and then found out that he used his "said chainsaw" to trim bushes. So then I asked him if it was a hedge trimmer and described the difference between the two. Thankfully yes, he was using a hedge trimmer. Of course that has danger to it as well, but as a mother it made me much more comfortable knowing it was just a hedge trimmer rather than a chainsaw.
In the Comedor, we sit between the special needs boys and Chino's medium boys. Last year we were on the girls side, and there just seemed to be problems with the girls not following instructions as well because they were distracted with chatting with us. Personally, I think it might have been Noah (so many girls had crushes on him and still must as they have been asking for him). After supper each day, we are going to spend a half hour in our room reading, to get some reading time in since we all brought at least 5 books down.
A couple of my books were left behind by Alina when she moved to my mom's. I think they might originally belong to my sister Julie, so I will be sure to bring them back and return them to her. The book I started reading is called The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James. Within the first hour, I knew that I was going to like this book, and I am now going to have to limit and pace myself. I used to be really into reading back in late elementary, middle and high school, but then college came and kids, and a master's degree, and marriage, and coaching and then my kids sports...that reading kind of went by the wayside. I am really appreciating the time I have had this summer to try to get back into something that I loved a lot years ago.
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