family!

Just a quick post to tell you about my evening. First, my DAD made dinner. Mashed potatoes, crispy baked pork chops, and Auntie Shirley's famous anchovy and garlic green beans. So very, very good. It's now 8:00 pm and Ji is opening up a new blender that his Grampa bought while Seung Yi plays cards with her Gramma. I tell you, it doesn't get much better than this!

In other news around here, all's well at school. I've been busy but happily so. I'm particularly excited this week because I got news that I'll be joining the grade eight team again next year. I was on seven this year, and while the team was very kind and lovely, I missed the grade eights. We have a system whereby whichever team you're on, you're a kind of homeroom teacher for a group of kids in that grade. I've missed my bunch of grade eights this year, and I'm happy I'll get a new set next year. Not only that, but so long as our school trips go along as scheduled in the fall, I'll get to go rafting in Rishikesh again. And that, my friends, is good news.

Ji and Seung Yi are doing well. Ji had a tought time around February and was acting up at school, but he's gone through reform school and is now doing much better. Seung Yi is just a doll; she and Laree are finally really playing with each other rather than battling all the time. They are too cute for words -- often wearing matching outfits, with their hair fancifully combed into matching hairstyles. Their school year is coming to an end and they're going to be starting new classes in April. It's a big deal because they're going to go into separate classes. Their current teacher was saying that Seung Yi doesn't really play with any of the other kids, and Laree is always taking care of her -- drying her tears, fetching her shoes. They are therefore getting SEPARATED shortly. Send goodwill and emotional strength along to Seung Yi as she deals with this new challenge!

[Delhi-16-March-2009]