E - Vida

And just like that, the Summer holiday is over. After we had labelled stationery and packed the bags, gone to the dentist and found matching socks, I needed a loooooong nap - almost as long as my self-inflicted To Do list... The waiting has just a few more hours to last and then we'll be off to our first day of school! I feel nervous. Very nervous. While attending school is not new to these three, joining classes on this side of the world, will be. For starters, I even had to google some of the items on the supply list! In all of the (combined) time that we've spent here, we've never done this . So there are questions and unknowns and a few insecurities. To our relief, there are just two days of school before the weekend...so anything that we've misunderstood, we can hopefully fix before the new week! I feel grateful. Very grateful. I drove past the school a few times in last year. And then I said out loud, "If we make it back here, I'd like our children...

Some lessons from our first 3 months (back) in Vermont, in no particular order: It's Summer and there is the occasional thunderstorm. Maybe I forgot what heavy rain looked like, after the drought in Cape Town, but they sure do supersize them raindrops here in the States! In the end, we're left with puddles and mud. Now if you have or know anyone between the ages of 2 - 4 years, you'll know that "when you jump in muddy puddles, you must wear your ....boots!" Adrienne is very good about wearing her boots - any day, to anywhere, in any weather. Poor feet! But she is especially good about burying her hands in wet mud and dry sand. And she can do it for ages without feeling fussed and without having that short attention span, like kids do with almost everything else! I used to have to turn away so that it wouldn't affect me. I've learnt: Let them play in the dirt. We have soap. I'm the one with the lists. I'm the one who will say, "I can ...