Tarantulas, Waterfalls, and Boys with ADHD

This past week has not necessarily been the most eventful week here, but a fun one (for me, anyways) none the less. Amy experienced some major back pain this week and had to stay in bed for a few days, leaving me to just do some homeschooling, play and do art stuff with the kids, and read.

Also this week the men have started digging a hole (15 ft. deep) in the front yard for a new septic tank (a fairly desperate need at the moment). This has been fun for the kids (especially Jonathan)  because there is a big pile of dirt in the yard that they climb/play in. However, there was a drainage pipe coming out from the house due to some of the septic problems. Apparently, there were some critters that decided to climb up this pipe and into the house to grace us with their presence. Last week this critter was a scorpion, this week, a tarantula. The tarantula had Amy, Cassandra, and myself all screaming and standing on chairs in by the table in the laundry room... until Toby came and promptly smashed it with a broom. =)

When we're not doing school or art or violin, the kids like to play with other kids (mainly the maid's daughter, Eliana) and watch movies. I believe I saw the same parts of Camp Rock three times in one day. Today, it was High School Musical- in Spanish, so I can practice. =)

Yesterday Toby drove the kids and I to a waterfall about 1/2 an hour from the house. The water was really cold and refreshing, and it was relaxing to just splash around in the water. I gave Sarah my camera and she took about 80 pictures or so... Fun to look at later-- mostly of rocks and grass. =)

I've also been able to read some books while I'm here. I finished Elizabeth Elliot's "Passion and Purity," and then Amy suggested I read a book called, "Boys Adrift." This book addresses the problems regarding the lazy young men in American society today- including video games, bad role models, and ADHD medications. Although not from a Christian perspective, this was a really interesting/eye-opening book, especially considering all of the statistics that it contains.

Today, we had some people over to the house after church and we cooked chicken, corn, green beans, baked beans, Honduran beans, cole slaw, potato salad, stuffing, bread, and Pepsi. We ate the delicious food, I held the cutest baby possibly ever, and we watched the Looney Tunes movie with Michael Jordan in it. Quite the relaxing afternoon.

Then this evening, Toby, Leonel, Sarah, Jonathan and I went to a church so that Toby could teach. I played outside with the kids- Sarah and Jonathan made friends with some of them and played in the waterfall-ish thing by the church. The kid that Jonathan played with was about a head shorter than him, and yet would chase him around and tackle him and hold him down for a few seconds, then help him back up. It was really really funny to watch. Then on the way home we were able to watch the storm from the edge of the mountain-- Que bonito! ;-)

Tomorrow I'll probably go to the clinic and do more stuff with the kids. I'm excited about what God will do this week. He is so good...

P.S. I'll try to post pictures soon, for those of you who don't have facebook. =)