Ah, it’s so nice to have friends and family who get me and aren’t all “judgy.” I almost didn’t post my last entry, but I’m glad I did. There were several great stories in the comments that made me laugh out loud and I realized how many of your kids are just like mine. I guess that’s why we’re friends. And if I hadn’t posted, I never would have found out that my kids played dirty scrabble with their Nana. Good times.

Anyway, you’re all always welcome to move in next door to me. Although if it’s a duplex, I wouldn’t recommend it. These boys can get pretty loud. Just ask poor Tina how many times the kids were kicking against her bedroom wall at night . . .

Today we met up with our military friends from Monterey who have been living here since June, but were traveling in Morocco this past week. The boys had fun reuniting with their old friends and Calvin went along to drop them off at school. He wanted to check it out since they’ll be going there in the fall. Yep, they’re going to real school next year.

The reason for homeschooling in Egypt was so that we would have the freedom to travel with Josh on all his trips and because we were going to be straddling a school year: spring semester of one year and fall semester of the other. One of the things we learned in Egypt was the best part about our year overseas is the actual day to day living in a foreign country — visiting local markets and coffee shops, being on sports teams with kids from other countries, and fitting in as a local. As local as we could get with our pale skin and light hair . . .

Since we have new 12 month orders, we will actually be here for almost the entire school year and since the number of middle eastern countries that we’ll be able to visit is shrinking rapidly (Egypt? no Syria? no Tunisia? no), we decided to enroll all of them at the American school here starting in September.

Two of the three were very resistant to the idea, but I keep telling them how much they’re going to love it and Calvin’s positive report today helped. Since I know you’re probably curious, Caleb has been totally begging to go since I first mentioned the possibility, but Calvin and Carter wanted to keep homeschooling. I’m just going to keep talking it up and I know by the time September rolls around, they’ll be ready to go.     

This photo has nothing to do with this post, but I got a new cell phone and was playing around with the camera. We are going to have lots of girl time next year when baby girl’s brothers are gone all day long . . . maybe we’ll go get fishy pedicures together.