Mom, do you ever think...

'What if we would have made a different choice how our life would be different'?

Owen asked me this the other day. Who knew an 8 year old could be so thoughtful, I certainly didn't, until this little man came into my life.

We've been keeping busy with school and work. Jeremy is buried at work these days...last night he was up working until 1am! I am working Monday - Thursday at The Montessori Place in the Infant Community. The children are really sweet and such a joy to be around, although they do wear me out! The hours are ideal as I start when the boys do and finish about 5 minutes before they do. The biggest perk is getting little glimpses into their days and a few extra smiles (from O) & kisses (from W) throughout the day.

Beyond that we've been busy making and doing as usual. I ended up buying a small sewing machine here instead of worrying about ruining my US machine with a transformer. Its quite nice to have a basic machine and I feel much more comfortable having the boys use it. We made our own parachutes for lego dudes and flew them out the windows the other day. We also have been inspired by our recent trip to the Science Museum and have had plenty of experiments and construction happening. A favorite was the spaghetti & marshmallow structures they made to hold a chocolate egg...which was then consumed!

Walter 'chillin out'

We also had a very special visitor last weekend. Jeremy's childhood friend, Josh, was in the country for work and managed to spend the weekend with us. They stayed up until 5am the first night laughing and reminiscing about the glory days of high school football and baseball. The second night they were in bed by 2am...and 11pm on the third night. They slowly realized they weren't quite 17 still.