The End of an Era and the Beginning

Well, it has been a very busy few weeks for me. Obviously, since I have not been blogging.

First, I attended meetings in Cyprus for all the volunteer stuff that I do. It was a great week. I have been 'voted' into further volunteer work. Very exciting stuff - at least for me.

Munchkin #2 is fast approaching the end of her primary school years. I just went with her and about another 150 kids on an over night desert safari. We went dune bashing, climbed around on rocks, slid down big dunes on 'sand boards' and just had fun in general. I am having a hard time believing that it was very likely the last field trip/school outing I will go on with one of my munchkins.

On the flip side, Munchkin #1 is taking dive certification lessons and doing open water dives this week as part of his schooling here. I am so excited for and proud of him. It was a very proud mummy moment for me going into the dive shop to buy him good fins, booties and snorkel. He already had a mask. Now, we are in a bit of a scramble to find good quality mesh bags to haul our expanding gear collection. What a lovely problem!

The husband's parents have been visiting us for more than a few weeks now. They were planning on staying only 3 weeks, but for their volunteer work they were still waiting on their special visas for that country. So....we had to extend their visas for our current country. The husband had to be in meetings all day to day so it was up to me to get the thing all sorted out. Thanks to friendly helpful people we got it sorted. But, I am tired out after being a bit stressed out about the whole thing! Ah, the weirdness of being an ex-pat.

Peace.