Schedules and routines...

Life has become scheduled...it's so nice. I usually wake up at 5:45ish and see if Sydney and Alex are awake yet. If they are I get them up or if not, I'll begin to pack their lunches. Once the kids are up it's eating breakfast, getting dressed, brushing teeth, combing hair, and they are off to school with Shane by 7:10 - that is the goal at least. I then wait for Denise to come and pick me up so we can go workout at the embassy. I usually get home around 9-9:30, eat breakfast, talk with Sara and Cecy, shower, read, and then I'm off to pick the kids of from school with Denise at 11:30. We get back around 12:15ish and try to eat lunch around 12:30 so Sydney can go down around 1 for her nap. Alex will then have "rest time" for a bit and then I pull out the workbooks so he can get out of his room. Right now we're working on spelling his name. He can do the letters pretty well, but he forgets what the letters are...so I'm trying to come up with a fun song for his name. Sydney is up around 3 and we usually leave for the embassy playground or pool. It's been hotter than normal here so pools days are so nice. Then we come home with Shane, eat dinner, try the wear the kids out, baths, and bed around 7:30 pm. And I'm usually in bed around 10, depending on the night.

I met with the leadership team of the church last week to get plugged in. I will help with the youth whenever I'm able and I will also help lead singing periodically. I'm sure there are other ways I will be serving the church as well. Bible study begins next week (we'll be doing the Beth Moore study on Esther) and I'm looking forward to meeting more ladies on a spiritual level. I really like the church. The pastor, Peter Desoto is great. He has such a great heart and is a very good pastor, shepherd, teacher, leader. His wife is so sweet - Dara (like Kara with a D).

Nothing too exciting this week. Lot's of fun, the time just flies here, most days. Next week the kids are off Monday and Tuesday for their Independence Day. I'm going to try to plan some fun things we could do.