It's been a while since my last post. Several things contributed to my posting delinquency. First of all, our schedules have become quite busy with the kids' schools and activities, as well as Mike's travel schedule. Secondly, the honeymoon period of our arrival in Australia has begun to wane. And in conjunction to that, the homesickness has started to set in. The holiday season makes it all that much more poignant, especially since we missed out on Halloween and Thanksgiving!The weekends are no longer filled with touristy adventures, but baseball games, birthday parties, school functions, and hanging out at home. The last school term will close for the boys in 1 week and for Zoe in 2 weeks. They will have 7 weeks off for summer break before they move up to the next grade. It will make up for the shortened summer break in the U.S. (although Jonah still thinks they got gypped in the long run). It seems like the last few months have flown by. The boys got to participate in Australian Football after school once a week and are in a baseball league that practices once a week and has games on Saturdays. Fortunately, I was able to get Lucas to play up in the U10 group on the same team with Jonah. (Lucas did not want to play off the tee in the U8 team.) The season goes until April. They are also continuing to swim a few times a week as well. Zoe has started speech therapy outside of school once a week and will start swim lessons during the holiday break. I feel like a bonified taxi driver most days. I am looking forward to the school break as much as the kids!
Mom and Dad (Mike's parents) will be arriving in a week for their 2 month visit, just in time for the school holidays. Helen, Mike's sister, will also be coming for Christmas later in the month. We are excited! We are planning some short trips and day visits to the surrounding area. We will also be making a trek to New Zealand in January for 10 days before the kids go back to school. We will be touring the South Island, stopping in 5 different cities. I'm sure I will come back with some good blogging material from that trip.
We hope all of our friends and family in the States had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We thought of all of you on that special day. We have so much to be thankful for... We look forward to hearing from all of you during the Christmas season. Please keep us on your Christmas lists and send cards to the Australia pouch address via John Deere. If you don't have our new address, please shoot me an email and I will gladly send it to you. We will probably be sending out our greetings electronically this year. Until then, take care! I will try to stay on top of the blogs...
