Home Again

Since arriving back in Honduras last week, we've finally gotten our house cleaned up to a respectable level and are pretty much back into our normal routine of life. Our return home involved significant hand-to-hand combat with our robust cockroach population, as well as a ton of cleaning. And while human beings are always the minority in any tropical home, we seem to have successfully re-established our presence among the critter population. Oh, and while we were getting our house cleaned up, we stayed with the Yost's in Balfate, and our shoes got stolen off their porch, along with their car battery and the radios out of the car. Dang. My only consolation is that there are virtually no Honduran women with size 11 feet, so they shouldn't fetch much of a price.

This year I will be teaching math and science classes all day Mondays and pretty much be home the rest of the week. The girls are with their beloved babysitter Dianny on Mondays, which they love. Plus it gives them some time with an adult Spanish speaker to add to and refine the vocabulary they pick up playing with the kids from the Children's Centre.

Guildy is doing 1st grade this year, and Hadley is doing a few preschool things. Hadley currently has about a 90-second attention span for drawing and coloring activities, so I am always looking for hands-on project ideas to keep her happy and entertained during the blocks of Guildy's school that need all of my attention. Today's activity was a bowl of soapy water with a little food coloring and a wire whisk to make bubbles. Seemed safe enough. While Guildy and I did math, I could hear what I thought were reasonable sloshing and splashing sounds on the front porch, but when I went out to check on her, she said, "Look, I turned the porch into a skate place! And I dyed my dress!" That's my very kinesthetic Hadley:o)No hand-me-down clothes coming from this one!