After school fun...

I really like when the kids come home from school in the afternoon. They come racing up the walk from the bus-full of stories and greetings and news from their day. Then it is off to put away their shoes, book bags and assorted belongings, and up to the big assembly room on the second floor of the Agape school building to check-in and have a snack. Like any big family-you have to touch base, get your plan for the evening, and make sure everyone is where they are supposed to be! The kids take a seat on the floor, and the one who is quietest gets to go forward first (and so on...) to sign the book and let the nannies on duty know if they have homework or not. Then they get their treat--"Khanom"---and off they go to the next thing-homework, or playtime, or just simply hanging out with their friend Patty visiting from America!

I Missed You Too!!!

A Brief Winter Respite

This has already been a long hard winter-bitter cold, snow, unseasonably "warm" followed by rain and sleet, followed by ice everywhere, followed by more bitter cold and snow.....and on it goes. If Puxatawny Phil the famous groundhog is to be believed (anyone reading this from Gobbler's Creek, PA?), we have another 6 weeks (or more) of this nonsense as the little furry beast emerged on Monday to see his shadow. But, me, I get a brief respite from this starting tomorrow---9 days in sunny, warm, not-so-humid-yet Northern Thailand---Yippee!!! I am going to let that hot sun drenched air soak into my frozen joints and try not to complain even once that it is "too hot"! Hope you will join me for the trip...I'll do my best to bring you up to date on all the happenings at the Agape Home...and who knows, maybe this will be the trip that I hear the longed-for phrase of the coach-class passenger on a long haul flight..."Why Miss Franklin, we have an opening in World Business Class---would you like an upgrade!?" :-)