Currently listening and reflecting on this…
I went to Cordoba to take my Spanish exam, I think it went well but I won’t know till July. I did a bunch of other stuff in Cordoba, mostly shopping for kids’ needs, and stayed a night by myself in a hotel. Last time that happened I was six months pregnant with Joni, so almost exactly ten years ago.
Weekend involved visit from mission colleague, thank you P, was nice to see you in more relaxed circumstances. Unfortately we did also manage two trips to A and E. Saturday evening one member of the household broke another’s finger. 4.30 Sunday morning two of them crashed a motorbike. Fortunately no-one badly hurt and it appears that there might not be any comeback neither from the owner of the motorbike nor the car they hit, so they got off lightly. Hopefully the memory of the now healing scrapes and bruises might serve as a longer-term reminder.
Yet another pointless meeting re Danny at school on Tuesday. The education system really sucks. Fortunately he doesn’t care.
Martin bought an iron. I enjoyed watching him explain it to the kids… “This thing is called an iron, it gets hot…” never seen one of those in action in their lives so far. Then they got to watch Martin doing the ironing, so now they know it’s a job for a real man. I see no reason whatsoever to intervene. Our future daughters in law are going to be so grateful.
Sweet little moment today when Teen announced that she is going to try to become cleaner and tidier and more ordered, so that then she might be a good example to help the other young lady currently staying here, who could definitely use some positive role models regarding keeping one’s person and stuff in a clean and roughly ordered condition.
Danny and Baby are currently chasing each other around the house brandishing pirate swords. Danny has just paused briefly in order to remind me that “A person’s a person no matter how small….” (Dr. Seuss – Horton hears a Who).
Meanwhile, the schedule for this coming weekend doesn’t look too bad, and I think I’ve had more than my quota of hospital trips for a while. And right now I need to go cook some fish and hopefully time lunch to co-incide somewhere between the owner of the broken finger arriving home from his check-up, and Joni coming in from school.