Has it been two weeks since we arrived? The time has passed in a strange way, seeming to go by fast, but being so full it feels as if we have been here much longer than two weeks. Maxim has already made two friends at school - Jada and Amanda. And she says she loves it, although she does have stories about eating too slow in the cafeteria and having half her lunch thrown away. We are having her practice eating fast at lunch time at home to help her get up to speed; they aren't as relaxed about timing in elementary school as they are in pre-school. We took Noah to an open house at his new school and decided we were glad we put Maxim in public kindergarten.
It will be fine for Noah for pre-school (although Marcela has put him on waiting lists at other schools). Marcela has been hard at work finishing up unpacking the house and setting things up. We are literally down to a very few boxes and some storage decisions. The living room needs a new piece; I am going to make a shelf similar to the others I made for our Maynard living room, but bulkier for the televisions, VCR, and DVD players.
(Marcela also wants me to make a puppet theatre for the kids, which I think is a fine idea.) Speaking of the kids, they also have a great set up here and everything is unpacked. They can even put up the small yard tent in their inside play area. The down side of having this large a space behind the beds in the room is that one or the other of them wakes up in the night and is frightened by the dark.
We don't mind nightly visitors, but they are getting so big it does start to crowd out the bed. We spend a lot of our time in the kitchen, sitting at the table, standing around the island (peninsula?), preparing food. Marcela set up this room first and it has been our comfort zone ever since. We do like the living room and use it more than we did the living room in Maynard, but the kitchen/dining room is the center of the house. It all gradually begins to feel like home.
Has it been two weeks since we arrived? The time has passed in a strange way, seeming to go by fast, but being so full it feels as if we have been here much longer than two weeks. Maxim has already made two friends at school - Jada and Amanda. And she says she loves it, although she does have stories about eating too slow in the cafeteria and having half her lunch thrown away. We are having her practice eating fast at lunch time at home to help her get up to speed; they aren't as relaxed about timing in elementary school as they are in pre-school. We took Noah to an open house at his new school and decided we were glad we put Maxim in public kindergarten.
It will be fine for Noah for pre-school (although Marcela has put him on waiting lists at other schools). Marcela has been hard at work finishing up unpacking the house and setting things up. We are literally down to a very few boxes and some storage decisions. The living room needs a new piece; I am going to make a shelf similar to the others I made for our Maynard living room, but bulkier for the televisions, VCR, and DVD players.
(Marcela also wants me to make a puppet theatre for the kids, which I think is a fine idea.) Speaking of the kids, they also have a great set up here and everything is unpacked. They can even put up the small yard tent in their inside play area. The down side of having this large a space behind the beds in the room is that one or the other of them wakes up in the night and is frightened by the dark. 
We don't mind nightly visitors, but they are getting so big it does start to crowd out the bed. We spend a lot of our time in the kitchen, sitting at the table, standing around the island (peninsula?), preparing food. Marcela set up this room first and it has been our comfort zone ever since. We do like the living room and use it more than we did the living room in Maynard, but the kitchen/dining room is the center of the house. It all gradually begins to feel like home.
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