Ready for Arif’s Big Day!

I’m taking off to Dublin tonight with Ronnie, Larry and Josh. We’re slightly disorganized and I’m not sure really that any of us are super sophisticated travelers. I think we’re just staying at the hilton or something. Laff. Anyhow. It should be fun.

We’re getting to London on Friday, and Arif’s “Big Moment” will be on Saturday. There’s going to be a Dinner on Sunday too. I’m not sure where this leaves us in terms of doing things, but hopefully during the day there will be a lot of time.

Yeah.. Interesting…. we’ll see how it goes.

Not just pizza.

So today I arranged for Jeremy’s shirts to be laundered. I called a phone number and they were at the apartment within 30 minutes and the shirts will be clean in 4 days. Woo hoo! I never have to leave the apartment.

I was a little worried about Vince and his school because yesterday there was some sort of “accident” with a scooter and Vince ended up crying and the teacher told him not to cry and that only babies cry. Hmmm, not exactly an American reaction… Vince repeated the crying line a few times during the evening, it seemed to trouble him, so I was worried that he was a bit stressed at school and that the 8-5 schedule was going to be a bit too long. But he tumbled out of the bus today happy and telling me he had a good day.

Edda appetite is continuing to improve. She seems happier these days in quite a while. She ate most of a pork chop and was cheerful and happy.

The school bus is here! The school bus is here!

So, now I’m relegated to waiting in front of the complex for Vince to come home at 5 pm. This is what I got out of him today. There was some argument today with his teacher over a scooter, some sort of accident and crying and not crying. There was a shower. There was the performance of “The Hokey-Pokey”. There was a discussion of shapes. The peas and carrots and rice for lunch were good. The cream puffs were the bomb. There were mushrooms being made and left at school. Nap time did not result in a nap. A good day overall.

Edda really enjoyed her day at home with one-on-one time. She was especially pleased at the spaghetti dinner. Thank goodness we are starting to eat at home again. She’s been eating less and less since we moved to SGP, she was sick last week when Jeremy was out, so now things are improving.

Jeremy made a dash to IKEA, again, this time without the kids and I think we have pretty much everything we need. Of course, everything he picked out is orange, the color of Jeremy.

I explored a little bit more, I found the post office (long line), I found a music school, Vince and I can start piano lessons whenever we want to. I just came back from a nice swim in the huge pool right outside my window. I’m so pleased with our internet phone.