Rainy Days of March

The rain has finally stopped this afternoon!! Seeing the sun come out is a blessing :)

I am feeling sooo much better. The medication, rest, and prayer. Now I am feeling the affects of coughing for over a month. Both my ribs and back are pretty sore...and I'm sure I bruised a little spot on my ribs. So it will take a little longer until I am 100%. But I have lots more energy to do my daily activities with the kids and homeschooling. Nap time is quit wonderful...cause I need it just as much as they do!!!

Triplets & Peter(and his awesome mommy)

                                                       Jonathan in the reading tent

The kids seem to really be enjoying doing homeschooling together. On Monday I was turned around for a minute...I hear laughing across the room. They were dog piled on top of each other, and laughing really hard. I love their little laughs! They are awesome :)
We have circle time with songs and a story. They have a couple of favorites. Baby Bumblebee,  Sticky Sticky bubble gum and Little Bunny Foo Foo.
The triplets love Peter and fight to get a turn beside him.
Last Friday we were doing a craft. White paper, tempera paint and straws. So we put globs of their choice of paint...and I demonstrated how to blow threw the straw and it pushes the paint around the paper. All was going pretty good....and I looked at Michael...the little munchkin who Loves to put stuff in his mouth...had blue in his mouth. Awesome!!! Cleaned up his mouth and forced him to drink water. Crazy kid!! So we switched...instead of blowing...they could use the straw to paint with. It worked great. Some pretty awesome pictures :)

                                                             Michael in is favorite shirt

Jonathan

                                                                    Sierra (a little princess)

On March 1st. David (kids dad) had his 52 birthday. The kids had a great time making cards, wrapping gifts (hammer, tape measure, wrench). We had a little surprise party for him. Confetti and all! I am still finding it places. But the confetti was a hit...Sierra didn't even want her cake and ice cream. Just wanted to throw confetti and yell Happy Birthday.

Their favorite stories right now are The Three Bears, and The Three Pigs.

                                                 Starbucks Yumm! (Spelt my name wrong)
Yes I found the Starbucks....the only one around! At the Malaga airport. I found my way there on Saturday. It was great to have something familiar!!! Sat there for a couple of hours with my journal and my chai tea latte. :)

Sunday I finally went down to the restaurant just under our apartment for lunch. It's a very Spanish restaurant. The two workers there that I spoke to didn't know any English...that's fine. I don't expect them to. But it did take a bit to communicate what I wanted. The one girl was not patient with me but the guy that took my order was more friendly. A little bit of miss communication as for what I wanted. I thought I was getting a chicken salad. But instead I got a salad with a few little pieces...or I think they were chicken! It was tasty...and he brought another plate with a Big pieces of chicken, french fries, and grated cabbage with a vinaigrette. It was tasty too...but I could not finish it all. When you sit down you automatically get good size bun. I asked for some water...and she brought out a BIG water bottle and a glass....Umm don't they see it's just me sitting here!!!! :) But that's how they do it here though. There is still sooo much about this Spanish culture I have to learn.

This morning I thought I would go to the little cafe down the street while the kids were at the Spanish nursery school. In my broken Spanish I ordered a small coffee with mostly milk in it. I am not a huge coffee drinker but this was really good.

 Now as I sit here I am very thankful for the sun more than you know. It's pretty windy but I am glad. Sometimes it really depends on the weather whether or not you do laundry. Most Spaniards don't have dryers...they just hang the laundry out to dry...and that's what we do at my place too! It's been raining quit a bit this past week, and the long term forecast is not looking to sunny. It rained this morning and all last night. But it has cleared up now!!! Praise the Lord. So I ran in and put some clothes in the wash. Amazing what little things like clean clothes...makes my day!!!:)