What I have been up to lately....

Busy is the word I use a lot these days....something I was not planning on has happened and it has been a good experience, I have to say. We have had a foreign exchange student living with us for the past 6+ months. He is from China and a very nice young man. This has been a learning experience for us. Here we were retired and doing our own thing...sleeping past 6:30am if we wanted and coming and going as we please. We have had to learn to get up at 5:30am on school mornings and eat breakfast really early to get our "son" off to school. We eat a lot of different food than we used to, which is not a bad thing....just different. Having someone who we didn't know share our house was a big change also. I would say, along with my husband, that it is not something we would do again. What I learned about myself has it's good and not so good points. I am sure each household that would try to do this would all have different/varied experiences. We learned many new things about another culture and did a few new things because of our responsibilities to see that we accomplished as good memories as we could provide for another child living with us after raising our own with all the past mistakes made and trying not to make them again if even for a short period of time. We are almost to the end of Yang staying with us and will miss him when he goes back to China....but we will have those pictures and those memories of which we will always treasure.