The Good, The Bad and the Beautiful

The Good:
1.  Lots of help around the house.... more than I've ever had before.
2.  Great Spanish teachers.  The kids especially love their teacher.
3.  Spanish lessons at home beginning next week for Katy & kids!!!  No more walking in the rain.
4.  Tuk-tuk rides when it's pouring down rain.
5.  A friend from Knoxville to escort Shirley Temple & I to el medico (doctor).
6.  Ability to call any number in states from my great phone--- I LOVE SKYPE!!!!  (if you want to talk, just e-mail me & we'll set up a date :-).
7.  Great food!!!  Buen provecho!!
8.  La pelota de futbol (soccer ball) for Little Man purchased en el mercado.... has made for much happiness & laughter in our little garden out back.
9.  A really awesome, super old house to live in for our time in Antigua.
The Bad:
1.  Shirley Temple has pneumonia.  Little Monkey & Dancing Beauty are also both coughing.... but no fever yet.  Pray, pray, pray!!!!!
2.  Not much sleep at all for Mommy & Daddy due to #1.
3.  Las bombas-- they are really crazy loud firecrackers.... like fireworks, but all they do is make noise....and they shoot them off ALL THE TIME... for all kinds of reasons:  baptisms, birth, wedding, birthday, because they had a good day.... who knows!  But they are crazy loud and go off in the middle of the day or night.  What are we celebrating at 5 am?.... I would love to know that... and is it really necessary to wake up the entire neighborhood?
4.  Homesickness.
5.  Lots of rain and a really leaky roof in the really awesome, super old house.

The Beautiful:

This is my view sitting on the balcony outside my bedroom while I study Spanish.  Three amazing volcanoes!!!!!!!  Not bad, huh??