Unedited and direct from my cell phone! These are all from one conversation, one sunny afternoon in September.
5. If u love me then ud lev me miss bball.
4. Please can i come hom i mean football practice is better then this.
3. Mom maybe u shudnt text me back cuz this phone is gonna be smashed into a 10000000 pieces
2. Srry chris cant text u back his phone is smashed into 1000000000 pieces
1. All he said was blah blah blah and i said so i can go hom and then he said blah
Just so you all know, he went to basketball practice. Because I am mean. And I like it.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Happy Birthday Sam!
Sam is now eleven. That's only a year away from twelve, and a year from then I get to have two teenagers in the house. How lucky can I get?
Sam asked for a cello for his birthday, and we looked all around this town and could not find one. You would think that a city of around a million people would have at least one cello to buy, but no, we could pay someone to go to Argentina to get one, or wait a few weeks and see if one shows up, or just go ourselves to buy one, but we cannot get one here, where we live. I even spent hours on the internet trying to see if I could get somebody to ship a cello to us. Everyone online would be happy to, except that the post office size limits prohibit it. How difficult does it have to be?
Thank you to everyone for your gifts and cards.
Sam asked for a cello for his birthday, and we looked all around this town and could not find one. You would think that a city of around a million people would have at least one cello to buy, but no, we could pay someone to go to Argentina to get one, or wait a few weeks and see if one shows up, or just go ourselves to buy one, but we cannot get one here, where we live. I even spent hours on the internet trying to see if I could get somebody to ship a cello to us. Everyone online would be happy to, except that the post office size limits prohibit it. How difficult does it have to be?
Thank you to everyone for your gifts and cards.
Friday, September 14, 2007
What?!
Yesterday was my birthday. This is Noah's gift to me:
"Mom, you drive me nuts!"
I drive him nuts?
"Mom, you drive me nuts!"
I drive him nuts?
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Our New Home
Finally, pictures of our new house.
Front of the house. Obviously.Balcony.
The view from the front balcony, looking down the street.
Front door and entryway.
Office.
Looking down at the entryway.
Family dining room.
Formal dining room.
TV room. Noah is playing with friends from school and embassy.
Master bedroom.
Christopher's room.
Samuel's room.
Marcus and Noah's room.
Back of the house.
The Quincho.
We have a grill, a half-bathroom, an extra room upstairs, and maid's quarters.
Pool, swingset, and tetherball.
The quincho from the back balcony.
The pool from the back balcony.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The guys finally showed up from the internet company. Congratulate us on joining the 21st century.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Living in the World of Yesterday
We have now been here for five months, if you can believe it. We can’t, the time has passed pretty quickly for us. We are settled into our house, into school, and sports. I can’t say that the boys are completely happy to be here now, but they are definitely adjusting. It helps that they leave for school at 7:30 and don’t return until after 4 PM. That leaves little time for brooding and complaining. School is a good thing.
The Aquabats are on TV right now. Noah has discovered a new kids TV show on Nickelodeon, it’s very weird, there are puppets, animation, guys in costumes, kids, and today the Aquabats. It’s pretty strange, I have no idea what it’s called, but it is definitely odd. I kind of like it.
I am enjoying having someone here to help with the cleaning, cooking, laundry, etc. We hired a very nice lady named Celsa, she worked for a family that just returned to the United States. She was a nun, a preschool teacher, and a nurse. We really like her, she is taking very good care of us. Just so you are all very jealous, it is 10:30 in the morning, and my laundry is all done, the bathrooms are all clean, the beds are made, and I haven’t done any of it. Later, I won’t be cooking dinner, ironing any of the clothes, or sweeping the floors. Plus, I never realized how nice it is to sleep on ironed sheets. I am going to miss her when we return to the United States.
We still do not have the latest Harry Potter movie showing here. We really want to see it. It is amazing how far away we are. A lot of the kids at school went to Argentina or Brazil to see the movie. I keep hoping it will open here, or we are going to break down and buy a pirated copy off the guys on the street. I really don’t want to contribute to the intellectual property and counterfeit problems that are here, but I am just about at the end of my patience. Every Friday I go to the mall by our house to see if the movie is there, but it’s been more than a month and still no Harry Potter. We are going to have to be like the local wealthy families (without the wealth) and go to Argentina or Brazil to see the movie. It is funny, but there are families that drive once a month to Argentina to buy groceries, especially dish soap and laundry detergent. For some reason the dish soap here is bad, it barely has suds, and most of them smell really bad. I bought a bottle and smelled an old, moldy sponge smell, and I kept getting new sponges, and bleaching the dish cloths, and it turns out, that’s just how the dish soap smelled. So when Kevin went to Buenos Aires last week, I sent him with a list. He brought back nearly 40 pounds of groceries. There are things that we just can’t get here, besides Harry Potter and dish soap. We can’t get good toys (we can, but they are very expensive, a Barbie is almost $30), maple syrup, chocolate chips, Pepsi products, marshmallows, chili, peanut butter, enchilada sauce, Doritos, canned soup, or Pop Tarts. Some of those I expected and knew about, but the canned soup and chocolate chips really threw me off. I have noticed that there aren’t a lot of convenience food products here. Not a lot of cake mix, or any box mixes, canned goods, virtually no microwave products, except popcorn, no concentrated frozen juice, in fact the frozen section of the grocery store is very small. It has been weird, but probably a lot better for us to eat food that is fresh and not boxed, canned, or frozen.
The Aquabats are on TV right now. Noah has discovered a new kids TV show on Nickelodeon, it’s very weird, there are puppets, animation, guys in costumes, kids, and today the Aquabats. It’s pretty strange, I have no idea what it’s called, but it is definitely odd. I kind of like it.
I am enjoying having someone here to help with the cleaning, cooking, laundry, etc. We hired a very nice lady named Celsa, she worked for a family that just returned to the United States. She was a nun, a preschool teacher, and a nurse. We really like her, she is taking very good care of us. Just so you are all very jealous, it is 10:30 in the morning, and my laundry is all done, the bathrooms are all clean, the beds are made, and I haven’t done any of it. Later, I won’t be cooking dinner, ironing any of the clothes, or sweeping the floors. Plus, I never realized how nice it is to sleep on ironed sheets. I am going to miss her when we return to the United States.
We still do not have the latest Harry Potter movie showing here. We really want to see it. It is amazing how far away we are. A lot of the kids at school went to Argentina or Brazil to see the movie. I keep hoping it will open here, or we are going to break down and buy a pirated copy off the guys on the street. I really don’t want to contribute to the intellectual property and counterfeit problems that are here, but I am just about at the end of my patience. Every Friday I go to the mall by our house to see if the movie is there, but it’s been more than a month and still no Harry Potter. We are going to have to be like the local wealthy families (without the wealth) and go to Argentina or Brazil to see the movie. It is funny, but there are families that drive once a month to Argentina to buy groceries, especially dish soap and laundry detergent. For some reason the dish soap here is bad, it barely has suds, and most of them smell really bad. I bought a bottle and smelled an old, moldy sponge smell, and I kept getting new sponges, and bleaching the dish cloths, and it turns out, that’s just how the dish soap smelled. So when Kevin went to Buenos Aires last week, I sent him with a list. He brought back nearly 40 pounds of groceries. There are things that we just can’t get here, besides Harry Potter and dish soap. We can’t get good toys (we can, but they are very expensive, a Barbie is almost $30), maple syrup, chocolate chips, Pepsi products, marshmallows, chili, peanut butter, enchilada sauce, Doritos, canned soup, or Pop Tarts. Some of those I expected and knew about, but the canned soup and chocolate chips really threw me off. I have noticed that there aren’t a lot of convenience food products here. Not a lot of cake mix, or any box mixes, canned goods, virtually no microwave products, except popcorn, no concentrated frozen juice, in fact the frozen section of the grocery store is very small. It has been weird, but probably a lot better for us to eat food that is fresh and not boxed, canned, or frozen.
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