Mamas and Papas

Saturday, May 20

- Partly sunny and beautiful, High: 31° C, RealFeel: 35° C

This has pretty much been the weather all week and this is winter! Daniel has been at the office all week and I've been home alone, well with Caleb and my ladies, Mama Verian and Mama Alexi. Here is a picture of them in our porch.

They didn't mind having their picture taken, but I'm not sure what they'd think if they knew they were going to end up on the web. Incidentally my name here is Mama Joshua.

The week has been OK. I have done lots of cooking, lots of washing up and lots of sweeping the floor. Unbelievably I am nearly half way through the 25KG of flour I bought when we first arrived. I cooked a passion fruit and pineapple crumble, which I recommend [editors note: so do I!] Bizzarely apples are really expensive here, well relatively. I can buy a bag of passion fruit for about 30p but apples are about 25p each. Considering that I hate thinking about what we're going to eat; shopping for food; cooking it and washing up, and that's basically all I seem to do here, it hasn't been a bad week. I've taken the kids swimming every afternoon, which is quite fun now that Bethany and Joshua are fairly confident by themselves. Also because

the pool is so close to our house we can come home to shower.

Daniel especially seems to love it here. He seems to be thriving on all the new experiences and people and loves living in the land of perpetual summer. In the nearly 9 years since we've been married, this is the happiest I've seen him. I guess God knows what he's doing. The kids seem really happy (although they do miss their friends and family) and love school. They come home every day full of what they've done, and are quite happy to wave goodbye to me when their lift arrives in the morning. I'll leave you with some photos of the children, as some have been requested. [You mean you're not interested in photos of fruit and vegetables!!]