Home Sick

Sundays here are very different. Even though we have a church we can go to, the service is in the middle of the day, 3:00. With kids that are usually napping at that time, it is hard to figure out our day around it. So, all this made me home sick today. Sundays at home start a little hectic, but we love being able to get up and get ready to go to church. Maybe stop for a special treat of donuts, where we usually see one neighbor headed to church, too. Then we can take our kids to a familiar, comfortable place where we know they will hear about Jesus. And we are able to go fellowship with our friends. A quick lunch after church, then home for a nap and some football. Then a fun evening with our Sunday night dinner friends.
Here, just getting to church is interesting, since we don't have our driver on Sundays, we have to take a taxi. Lately, taxi rides have been iffy. Kate has had a sudden burst of motion sickness, and that could be a whole other blog in itself. Each time we leave the house now, we are stocked with a ziploc, change of clothes, and a plastic bag, that she has come to call her "throw up bag". Sounds fun, I know, and you may ask yourself, as we do, is it worth it?! We decided, we would go to lunch and walk around an area that is half way from our house to church so that we can break up the taxi rides. I think it worked well, no vomit. After lunch and wandering around a little, we taxied to another area closer to church to wander around, again, no vomit, bonus. We didn't do much, but it was what we like to call a penalty kill. We seem to be doing a lot of that lately, you know, things to kill time because you really don't have any thing else to do. No, you probably don't know because you're all busy with something or at least enjoy just relaxing at home. Here, home is a small apartment that gets a little crowded with two, high energy two year olds. And to Mike's dismay, no football. Actually, there's football, but it's really soccer. So, once we get to church, sit through the service and get home (no vomit then either, extra bonus), there's not much for us to do except find another penalty kill. Basically, Mike and I work all day just clearing the puck out of the zone. Today, we watched two movies, which is about a week's worth at home. There's some value to Disney, isn't there?!