Another Low-key Day

Today was another low key day for me, which was nice. We dropped Danny off to school, and Josh and I made the trek down to the store. It was at least not too hot when we left, but by the time we got home it was terrible. We played and had lunch. Our new ayi is nice and is warming up to the kids. I am still not quite sure about how well Fong trained her, as I noticed the dishes were sitting in the sink most of the day--this in itself is not a problem by any means, it is that at the end of the day, she took them from the sink and was just drying them off. It made me wonder exactly how she was washing them. I had read stories about ayis not using hot water or soap..I guess many Chinese do not wash dishes in hot water. So, needless to say, I will be maybe reading downstairs tomorrow to try and see what she does first hand. All the little things you take for granted of being the same, and just are not in different cultures.

Danny is continuing to enjoy school. His teacher asked me today if he might be left handed. I guess he writes equally as good with his left hand. I am still used to when they forced you to be one over the other. I guess they do whatever is comfortable for the child today.

Looking forward to the weekend and maybe spending time at the pool. There is not much more you can do in this heat. I was told in usually gets better by the middle of September. Thankgoodness that is sooner than later.

On a funny side note, I picked up a flyer on kids tennis here (we live at the Racquet club, so it is pretty big here), and was amazed at the pace they move the kids through the system. There are two tracks--recreational and professional. Both start at the age of 4, so I am not sure quite how it is determined that you should be in the professional track...Of course, I am expecting if Danny is even interested we would only be relegated to the recreational section. Also, curious of what happens when you decide to start at say age 6 or older. Are you in with the 4 year olds? I guess its called groom them young. We are doing the soccer thing this fall, so maybe we will try out the tennis in the spring, who knows...

We are solo here tonight as Dustin is out with late meetings. I just realized a terrible mistake that I made... I told Danny we would watch a movie and maybe we would make the nights that Dad is gone movie nights... My mistake is that Dustin will be out of town all next week...whoops. Oh, well I guess I will have to revise or make up some contingency.