Loong Time catch ups`

Woo, I just didn't realise it was so long since the time I last posted. Anyway so here goes on what happened in our lives the past one month.

Actually life has changed pretty much for all of us. For one, my maid has left us to go back to India so we are all on our own now. My parents have come over to help, but that is temporaray at best. The kids have now started coming home by school bus (which they love). Life is also very hectic for me - what with doing all the washing and cleaning at home (which used to be done by someone else). But I do have a Nepali girl coming in once a week to do the heavy cleaning and ironing (which I always seem to bebehind in) so that helps.

The kids have started Mandarin tutions once a week and now I realise how much effort it is to get them to sit in one place and write. The Pilot hates to write and I have to nag him all the time to do that. The Princess on the other hand is not so bad. The other blah news is that in addition to Mandarin, they will have to start Hindi classes once a week for three hours at a stretch (the horrors of it all....:-( ) starting from January. Combine all this to existing Ballet and Piano classes and forthcoming Kumon Maths class, I really now have to scramble for time!

The Pilot and the Princess also turn four on Sunday. They took their cakes and pressents to their classmates today. Cakes were Snow White's face for the Princess coupled with Snow White and Puss in Boots books for the girls and boys in her class and Superman cake and Jungle Book and Cinerella books for the kids in the Pilot's class. We are having a party at home on Sunday and that's fodder for another post!