I thought this might be a good week to tell you about our "normal schedule."
Every weekday morning we have staff devotions with the aunties at 7am. Three days a week the yard man comes to work, so I get him started before I take the JRM children to school. I am usually leaving around 7:30 with the school children, then return home anytime from 8:30-? depending on traffic and how many errands/stops I have after I drop them off. On Tuesday & Wednesday I pick up Ms. Cynthia, who does some cleaning and cooks up a fabulous Jamaican meal for our Wednesday evening dinner.
I am usually back on the road soon after lunch. The pickup time for the school children is 1:30-2:30, so sometimes I will do some errands before that. What errands? Today I stopped at 3 hardware stores (before one of them had what I was looking for), CDA twice to pick up paperwork, and the post office. It seems there is always something to buy, pick up, drop off, someone to talk to, etc.
Our evening schedules varies as well. Monday, Tuesday, and Friday evenings are usually open, meaning our family is eating separately and we are doing our own thing. Wednesday evening we have a staff night. We enjoy an authentic Jamaican meal, then we usually have a Bible study type of activity together.
Thursday evening is "Auntie's Night Out." Starting at 5:30, we take care of the children, giving them supper, as well as putting them to bed.
We have been taking a day off on Saturday, and usually that means some kind of family activity for us.
We meet at 9:45am on Sunday morning to have a prayer, then go to church. We eat lunch together, and we meet again in the evening for a meal and another staff night. We have been trying to have more "family night" type of activities on Sunday evening. Once the staff changeover is complete, we will do some training sessions in the evenings.
Every other week, we make a 45 minute trip up the mountain to Mt. Pelier to pay the teachers at the school that JRM supports. Besides being a taxi and errand boy, other things I do during the day include (but are not limited to) office work (bookkeeping, CDA paperwork, monthly records), maintenance/repairs (plumbing, pool maintenance, trim bushes, fix fans, etc.), and whatever else comes up during the day.
Hopefully, that gives you a rough idea of my days, although the schedule is treated like a rough draft, it can change from week to week, day to day.
This week we received another child, a baby boy. Since I cannot give many details of age, etc., I will say that he is sitting by himself, but not yet crawling. He seems to be very happy and contented.
We had a lazy day on Saturday, then met the Brown family for dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Carrie took some coloring books and activities for the kids, so we could sit and chat for a while after dinner.
Our church here has started AWANA on Sundays from 4-6pm, so I took our girls and some neighbor children this week. AWANA is a program where they earn points for memorizing verses, bringing a friend, being on time, playing games, bringing their Bible, etc. They loved it, so I am sure we will be taking them some more.
It seems that rainy season has started. We still have sunny days, but it is not unusual for it to be cloudy for half the day. We have some rain most days; some days it will rain for several hours at a time. Usually the rain will start early afternoon and be done by late afternoon/early evening. We have been getting some gorgeous sunsets after the rain stops. It also helps cool things down. We are chilly this evening with the breeze (although it is still 75ยบ).
I don't have many pictures of our week, but I did take some pictures when we were grocery shopping.
Pickled Pig's Tail
Goat head and belly
Chicken feet
Anyone hungry?
The room addition is moving along nicely. The roof is being poured and is almost done. The workers were here for 14 hours on Saturday trying to get it done. The concrete is all mixed by hand and bucketed up to the top to be poured.
Sign of the week:
We love you and miss you!
Kevin
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