We are in between 'holidays' right now. We just celebrated Groundhog Day. We watched Groundhog day of course...it's become an annual tradition...the kids love it and not matter how many times I see it, it cracks me up! :)
The next holiday is Thursday, when we 'celebrate' Chinese New Year! Hey..when you run a daycare, you celebrate ALL the holidays ok!! :) The kids made paper lanterns today, and learned how to say Happy New Year in Chinese - Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Yesterday, I had the day free and clear as the couple of 'to do' items I had planned were canceled for one reason or another. Mark got home fairly early, and so with no kids around, we decided to go to the movies! Always a treat as we can then see something NOT animated! Our movie of choice was the new "Rambo" movie. VERY gory and bloody and violent..but then, it wouldn't be Rambo if it wasn't right? It also highlighted the tragedy and reality of Burma. While the movie is hard to watch at times, it makes you stop and think "This is REALLY happening every day over there". The next question should be "What can I do to help stop this genocide?". I am not sure I have an answer to that quite yet. I am still mulling it over in my mind.
On a different note, Mark and I have embarked on a new adventure! Our Church, Newlife, is training us to be DivorceCare leaders! We are starting out by attending the 13 week class to observe how the other leaders 'lead', and then we will lead a 13 week session ourselves. The program itself is Christian based, and has alot of resources and tools to help us pass on this great 'Divorce Recovery' healing info. We are quite excited about the whole thing. As you all know, both Mark and I have been divorced, and while my divorce was fairly amicable and my ex and I are now great co-parenters, Marks divorce and ensuing custody/visitation battle has been an ongoing almost 14 year nightmare. Marks ex is quite possibly the most destructive parent I have ever seen. We have watched as she has systematically and with full intent, done all she can to try to ensure that Mark and Shelby do NOT have a relationship. To his credit and with Gods grace, Mark has ALWAYS taken the high road and never undermined nor undercut his ex to their daughter. While the high road is not an easy one to take..and it can be a very lonely road, at the end of the day...it is the right road. Mark now has a very good relationship with his daughter despite his ex's intentions and it is this experience that we feel is good to pass on to others going through this same thing. We know what TO do and what NOT to do in order to ensure the mental and emotional health of the kids. We aren't experts that's for sure...but there is something to be said for the 'been there done that' experience that we have! :)
Ben has his first play on Thursday and so I will be sure to post pictures about that.
I am off to bed now. SOMEONE in this house (not mentioning any names!) messed with the alarm clock yesterday and so when it was set for 530 am for Mark to get up, it was actually 430!!! Needless to say, we are two very tired people! So off to bed we go!
Hugs to all,
Jaye
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