Month: January 2012

I was looking through my blog list and saw that there are a few posts that I neglected to finish before the holidays. One fun event right before Christmas break was a party in Carter’s class. The parents were invited to attend and bring a dish from their home country. Camille and I attended and brought a berry crisp, but the highlight of the party were these huge candy apples.

Camille sat at the table with Carter and several of his friends and ate fistfuls of Korean noodles. Carter made sure there was room for his sister at his table.

I love Carter’s teacher. She requires a lot from Carter, but is always warm and encouraging. It’s a perfect fit for him. 

After eating we played a dice game in groups and then watched a few animated shorts together. The best part was that Carter liked having us in his class and was sorry to see us leave. One of the best things about this year is being able to do things with the boys at school. It’s well worth sacrificing flexibility in our traveling schedule for them to be at TAISM this year.

One of my goals for our year overseas was to blog daily so when we were back in “normal life,” the memories wouldn’t all fade away into a blur in the back of my mind. Just last night Josh and I were trying to remember what awesome, exciting, exotic New Year celebration we attended in Cairo one year ago and when we couldn’t remember a thing I said, “Oh! I can check my blog!” It turns out that I was holed up reading Twilight — what an Egyptian New Year fail.

But looking back refreshed my memory that we were only a few weeks into our life in a new country, with a baby who didn’t sleep and no babysitter, so our lack of partying like it was 1999 makes a little more sense in that context. It still doesn’t justify Twilight though.

342 entries out of 365 days is a pretty darn good percentage of my goal reached. Since we’re going to be overseas for another six months (enshalla), I’m going to continue to try and blog every day as long as we’re in Oman. After that, who knows? I’m at my best when we have funny and unusual things happen to us (exhibit A: every day in Egypt) and I feel like my blog is much less interesting now that we live in Oman, but I’m plugging away.

And for my future self who is bound to check this post 1 year from now: Last night we had friends over, snacked and ate and drank (wine, sparkling water, and Charlemagne sparkling grape juice) and talked and talked and laughed until midnight while all our kids played together. It might not have been up to 1999 standards, but once I got old enough to stay up till midnight on a regular basis, I lost the drive to make New Year’s Eve the night! we will never! forget!

Happy 2012. Only 181 blog posts to go!