Sun 26 Dec 2010
I hadn’t hardly been home and Mom texted me to say that the kids were just wound up like crazy. At first she thought it was because the weather was cooler but ??????? Who knows, maybe it was because Dad had just been there? Christmas is coming? They had been out of school for a few weeks? You just never know do you? Or was it because Mom was feeling lost without her husband there so things were driving her crazy?
Anyways things have settled down to a dull roar in the home again, the kids are back to school which is another story. I would say for another time but I won’t. So here it is. The schools set home a questionaire for the parents to vote on what time they wanted the students to stay at school until. As it was the children were done at 3:30 which gave the children time to do homework when they got home before supper. But with going to school until 5:30 they wouldn’t have much free time for anything before supper. Of course the extra time at school is supposed to be for doing homework and studying. But from past years when they’ve done this we know it’s just a fooling around time for the kids due to the lack of supervision. Of course most of the Thai parents want the later days so they don’t have to go get their kids until later. Terry filled out the forms for all of our kids saying that we wanted them home at 3:30. So after the kids returned the forms to school the teachers had them fill out their own forms. Then one of the teachers told Hannah that she’d give her another form for her mom to fill out again. This was because she filled her’s out saying that she wanted to go to school until later and the teacher said your mom will change her’s too then. Hannah said ” Not Mom, she’s already filled out the forms and she won’t change”. But we knew what the decision would be as they did this every year. LOL :) It sure makes a long day for the kids, 8 till 5:30 even the ones in kindergarten. It does give us more time to do things during the day but it is hard on the kids.
It’s amazing how things work, kids find things to do no matter what. Like the one of the last days I was in Thailand, I come around the corner to find most of the younger kids throwing rocks. Okay throwing rocks by itself is no big deal but when they are throwing at a sibling, sitting on top of the swing set, it’s a big deal. Now he (Isaac) was playing it safe, he had a 5 gallon bucket over his head. I guess that’s how all the rocks end up on the neighbour’s roofs.
Just like the picture of the kids playing in the rain water they found coming down the mountain while we were out camping at Kok Chang Island. They had a great time in the water and they didn’t need any fancy computer games etc to do it, just an imagination and someone else to do it with!
Anyway’s I watched the kids open their stockings on Christmas morning from my daughters in Canada and they all seemed to be a little more relaxed, not so wound up. Just having a great time with family.
So from our family in Thailand to your family wherever you may be over these Christmas Holidays. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!