A blog about what daily life was really like in the Middle East and the daily ramblings of an ex-pat mum. That's how I started the blog. We are now home, so I'm just going to continue with life here. I am a deeply committed Christian. I love to teach about and share my faith so you'll see some of that on the blog as well. Got a comment? Please feel to comment at the end of a post. May our Creator's peace be upon you.







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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Gearing up

I am so ready to go home for the summer.  I went to the market today for bread, milk, kitty litter and hay for the guinea pigs (you know, the necessities) when my car thermometer read 112F.  When it's really really hot out it feels like it's hard to breathe.  It's a little like standing in front of a hot open oven or when you open a still running dishwasher - bam in your face hot air.  Yucko.....

We've been cleaning house and doing homework all day.  I think I've done 6 loads of laundry.  We have a beautiful forced air/hot air/vented dryer which is a hard core unusual luxury item here.  LOVE IT!!!!!  Otherwise, I could only do about two loads of laundry at time before the drying racks filled up.  The 'condensation' dryers they have here I really don't like.  Nothing like fluffy towels with a Bounce sheet.  Excellent......

The whole house is moving in the direction of summer.  Cleaning rooms, shoveling out closets, and making plans with family - all very important.  We still have a few more plane tickets to buy for summer travel, but we're almost totally done.  I keep thinking we're done, but more work looms before the summer party can begin.

The first morning we are home we're going to be up at the crack of dawn and head to our favourite all you can eat joint and snarf bacon, sausages, pancakes, biscuits, eggs, hash browns and still hot bottomless bowls of donuts.  Bring it on. 

We're gearing up.

Peace.