The finish!

I am coming to the the end of my time spent in Switzerland being a nanny.

I have been trying to get it through my head that I am going home in three day's. It has seemed like such a long time away that now that it is here I am having trouble believing that my time is over I am finally going home.

Yet It will not be the same. What I mean is I don't have work waiting for me when I get home, I get to start a new job. I get to go back to my Church. But now I have seen things differently being a foreigner coming to a new Church. I can't tell how strange it feels when you don't know the language you don't know anyone and you feel like an outsider. How easy it is for us to not talk to the New people at church, but let me tell you that when someone takes a few minutes to say hi what a world of difference it makes.

What an amazing God I have that he has granted me the opportunity to see and live life in a totally different way. I can come back to the life I had and change things even if only in little way's. I can do it. I can make it through life without my family their in my life every day. I would never have made it through without my God and Father. Who has only the best for me, and loves me more than words can say.

Most of all I can't wait to be back with those who are most precious to me. MY FAMILY! I am so Thankful for them all!

The waiting is the hardest!

I am now just waiting for the day to finally come when I can come home. It's all this waiting and counting that has me frustrated.

Now that it's only 9 day's away I am having trouble keeping my thoughts from longing to be home. I need to be here and enjoy the last week I have here. I have been so blessed to be here and I don't want to quit now that the end is so close.

Please pray that the Lord gives me a quiet heart to continue the job that I am doing with a joyful spirit.

15 day's left!

Yes I am counting down the day's till I get home. I am so excited to finally see my family and my dog!



I had a good Thanksgiving though it was short. We invited two couples and one single guy from the team, one of the couples has two boy's for our boy's to play with ( except that they don't speak very good English) they had fun. We didn't have them come till 5:30pm then they left around 9:00pm. The food was great Ami has some really good green bean casserole and corn casserole dishes (which I am getting the recipe's for).



I missed the huge family gathering that we have, the long day of hanging out with everyone and eating all day. But more than that I miss the time we spend together. I am so Thankful for the wonderful family that I have to share my life with, and that we have both of our Grandma's living in our house with us is so special.



Life is so different living here the people, the transportation, and the values. You are required to send your children to school, there are almost no Christian's, and if you are not Swiss then they don't like you period. Our country may be corrupt in many way's, but we have the freedom to change that. Praise God!

When God Moves!

I have exactly 4 weeks till I am on a plane going home. I can't believe that I only have a month left. The time goes so fast I don't want to miss even one moment of it. How precious life is.
How can someone go through life without appreciating all the wonderful things that God has planned for us.

I have been here now over three months, when I first got here I had no idea what it was going to be like living in a foreign country. I can go on a train to get places, I go to the store, I pick up the kids from school, and go through life as I have never done before.

I knew that God was going to work in my life, but I didn't know how. I am amazed at the person that I have become. I feel that I am still the same, but yet I am more confident, more bold and more relaxed if that is possible.

I have the best job ever (if you want to call it a job), I have got to see God work to knit a family together closer than ever before, I have been able to see life in a family that has the same values that I do, but uses them differently.

I have been given friends and a Church when I most needed them. I have even been blessed with more traveling through God's incredible earth, than I ever thought I would get to do.

I have been refreshed in my faith, I have been stretched in my walk with Christ, and have been renewed like never before. First I have my God to thank and praise. Then I have my wonderful parents who have taught me and supported me and poured their lives out for me. All so that i may have the life that God has for me to walk in. I am so humbled with all that I have been given. GOD I PRAISE YOU!!! THANK YOU FATHER!!!

How the Time Flies!

It is already November 9th, where has the time gone?

This weekend with the boy's went even better than the last time. I think I was more prepared and ready.

The boy's where great! I am enjoying all that they have taught me.

We didn't get to go anywhere so I had to come up with some Ideas to entertain them. First because the older boy's didn't get to go to school on Friday I gave Gage his Birthday gift early. He loved it (the movie Charlotte's Web), we had a fun afternoon watching it and eating popcorn and smarties.

Then on Saturday after I cleaned all the floors "they where absolutely filthy", I took them all outside for some fun games. We played tag, What time is it Mr. Fox, Simon Says & relay races.
We got good and dirty so I had them all strip out in the hall then make a run for it to the bathroom.

After Griffin's nap we did some crafts and watched our German movie Muzzy, then had dinner and watched a movie. We played games before bed and then the boy's went to bed, they did so well I was so proud of them.

All in all it went really fast. Ami and Curtis said they enjoyed themselves so much. I am so glad to be able to give them some time off even if it is only for three day's.

We are off to Church in a little bit. Yeah!!

Home again!

Ok well our trip was a lot of fun! We were so very busy getting from one place to the next and trying to see everything in the short time we had. We did it though we covered 5 countries in 8 days. Wow it went so fast! I was so blessed that Curtis & Ami let me go for so long.

Now I am getting back into the routine of home and life here at the Brown's. It was hard to say good bye to my Mom & Lyd. I was so thrilled to be able to have them come here, it was such a blessing. I felt like I had a breathe of fresh air from home.

I am so excited! I finally met some Au Pairs/ Nannies from the states. We bumped into to them on Sunday at Church by accident. They meet with other Au Pairs every Wednesday @ 10:00am @ a Starbucks in Zurich. I went this morning and took Griffin as my date. It was nice to have time alone before my long weekend. I am so Glad to have some new friends that are the same, and some of them are Christan's as well. GOD is good!

This Weekend Curtis & Ami are going on a trip for the weekend to Rome, while I stay here with the boy's. I have to take the older boy's to School on Friday, but the rest of the time I will be here. I am glad to give them this time off.

Our Trip Through Europe!

Our Journey Starts on Wednesday Oct. 22th and goes till Monday Nov. 3rd.

We will be traveling to Paris France, Frankfurt Germany, Milan Italy, Salzburg Austria & Switzerland.

Wed. 22nd - Mom & Lyd arrive in Switzerland @ 7:50 am. They will spend the day with the Brown's & we will get some food for trip. We will spend the night @ the Brown's.

Thur. 23rd - We will leave at 6:15am to start our travels on a train to Paris. We will arrive in Paris @ 11:34am. We will stay all day and then spend the night.

Fri. 24th - We will spend the day in Paris until 1:09pm when we board our next train for Frankfurt. We will arrive in Frankfurt @ 5:00pm. We will spend the night.

Sat. 25th - We will spend the day in Frankfurt until we board our train for home. We have two choices we leave @ 6:50pm & arrive in Kloten @ 11:35pm, Or leave @ 10:05pm & arrive in Kloten @ 6:05 am.

Sun. 26th - We will spend all day with the Brown's & go to Church @ 5:00pm. We will spend the night @ the Brown's.

Mon. 27th - We will leave @ 5:15am for Milano. & will arrive @ 10:35am. We will spend all day then spend the night.

Tue. 28th - We will spend all day in Milano then take an night train from 10:23pm till 7:00am

Wed. 29th - We will arrive in Salzburg @ 7:00am. We will spend the day & the night. We will go on a Sound of Music tour to see how they created it.

Thur. 30th - We will spend in Salzburg until 4:00pm when we board our train for Kloten. We arrive in Kloten @10: 55 pm. We will spend the night @ the Brown's

Fri. 31st - We spend the day with the Brown's & go to the Hockey Game in the evening. We spend the night @ the Brown's.

Sat. 1st - We spend the day with the Brown's. Maybe go into Zurich? Spend the night @ the Brown's.

Sun. 2nd - We spend the day with the Brown's then go to Church @ 5:00pm. Spend the night @ the Brown's.

Mon. 3rd - We hang out till Mom & Lyd leave for Home.

Peaceful!

Its funny what the meaning of a name means, how strange that many people are their names. It makes you think everyone should be named with much thought & care. Even if you are your name it is still easy to mess it up. Your name is not only yours but your families as well how do you treat it? How do you treat yourself? Cherish your name.

How have you given your will your life & and all you are to God? In the book I am reading ( A Shepherd Looks @ Psalm 23) I am in the Chapter that talks about "He Leadeth me in the Paths of Righteousness for His Name's sake". It talks about where is God leading you to are you giving your whole self? Are you laying your will down to Him and all that he has for you? I know that as Christan's we often forget who we are serving, we get caught up in the normal every day busyness that surrounds us. We get following a certain path and stay on it, Because like sheep we are creatures of habit. But I don't want that. All my life I have been taught that we need to lead the flock we should never just follow what everyone else is doing. Yet how do you do that without getting a big head and thinking you are better, or cause you have Christ that you aren't accountable to anyone else.

I know that my heart has always been to serve, somehow I have been born with a pull that I feel horrible with myself if I don't help out in some way that I need to be helping out somehow, and if I am not I feel really bad. Yet because of all that I have found that I don't want to be in the front I don't want center stage I am much more comfortable being in the back round and serving. I have found it very hard to push myself out from behind and put myself in the front.
I know that their is a balance and that I need to find it. How? what can I do to serve yet also lead?

I know that God has shaped ever part of my life and continues to every day. It is interesting to look back and see all that he has done to change me. Little me always bossy have grow up and still am bossy ha ha. I was shy and scared of life, and God said go into the working world. I know that working in the world started the chain of events that would change of me. Thanks to my wonderful parents who instructed and an incredible Father that knew that I could do it. I still can't believe that God has brought me across the world into Europe to live for 4 months. Wow !

I don't always start these with any thought to what I am going to write, yet when I get going it just keeps coming. I have never been good with words and when I put them down they actually make sense. I can state things that I never knew that I needed to say and feel so much better for it. I also don't have my sister to be my sounding board for all my thoughts.

HOPE!!!

I have been waiting to go to the Hockey game and I finally got to go to my first Pro Hockey game. I enjoyed it very much surprise haha. It was fun being out with Ami and the boy's and it was fun seeing Curtis play.

I have been learning how to plan a trip and not just any normal trip but I get to take Mom and Lyd through Europe YAY. I am so excited to show them all the neat & beautiful things that are in Europe. I want them to have a great time, and through it all I have learned too. They will be here in 9 day's.

I went to church yesterday and the worship was GREAT they where very anointed and I felt so blessed. The sermon was preach by the Senior pastor of the church and he had a good message the only problem was that his accent was so thick that it was hard to understand sometime, but I got the gist of it.

It was about having a dream or vision or desire from God, but then waiting years for it to come about, and while you are waiting for it sometimes you lose your faith or you get discouraged and want to give up.
Yet having the faith to wait and listen to God, cause he always gives it to us. Just like he did Abraham, Moses & David. No one is perfect we all mess up, but in the end God still blesses us.

Wow this was a very good for me I needed a little encouragement that I the dreams that God has given me will happen, I just need to keep following the direction that he has set for me even if it seem strange.

I know all of this and I feel this is right. But when I am away from everything that is most precious to me it makes me ask what am I doing with my life? I get to go home for Christmas and when I get there I will have no jobs demanding my attention, and no immediate plans for anything which I am very grateful for. What I intend to do is spend all of December just being with my family. I have always known that my family is very special to me. What I miss a whole lot is the busyness the talking and even the arguing of the whole Tallo's clan ( and yes that includes Grandma Mills too). I guess that's what happens when you have 7 sibling and you live in a house with 11 people ha ha.

What God has for me next I don't know, but I'll take it in stride with God's help all things are possible.

Yay!

I took over two months but they finally decided what they want me to do after the Christmas break. I will be coming home and I will be staying home for good.

This wasn't a quick decision and it has nothing to do with me or the work I do. Ami & Curtis feel this time here in Switzerland is meant to for the FAMILY to grow together in a way they have never had the opportunity to before. They feel that with me here it was a good start in the right direction but now they need to do it on their own.

I was a little surprised at first because they talked over so much me coming back. Yet I can't feel a little relieved as well. I will have been away for 4 months by the time this is all over. I will be glad for a long relaxing Christmas with no work, then I can start over in January with whatever job I want to do. WOW that's kind of neat!

Right now I am trying to plan a trip with Mom & Lyd and I hope that I get everything all set before they get here. I am worrying about the price and the train tickets & good but cheap housing. It is expensive to have fun.

I CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE MOM & LYD COME! I AM SOOOOO EXCITED!!!!

I can't wait to go home either I am already counting down the day's & weeks.

Time Goes On!

Wow I can't believe how the time flies! We are already into our 7th week of being here. Before to long Mom will be here, and then I can come home!

I enjoy being here and experiencing all the wonderful opportunity's I have been given.

First being in a foreign country, which I never would have believed even earlier this summer that I would get the opportunity let alone have the guts to go for any long period of time.

Second spending time with a young family that has been through so much and is still growing. I can't explain it but even for all the time spent with my family/clan its different.

Third learning more about myself. I knew that I would learn new things and change in little way's, but for the very first time I have had to change how I live cause I don't get to go HOME each night to my own house where I am very comfortable. Instead I have to live and breathe my job. It isn't a hard job though it is tiring and I do have my own room, But I am still am outsider.

I know that God works through everything we do and that he always has our best at interest. I want always to follow what God has for me. WOW though I know that no one thought including me that I would get to travel the world , and live across the world. I can't imagine what God plans next for me, but it makes me wonder! He has given me so much more than I ever could have asked for, Yet we are selfish beings for we continue to ask for more.

I pray that my heart will always be right with God!!! I will not shrink away from the tasks he has set for me!!! I will first and foremost always be the servant that he wants me to be!!!

These are my thoughts as they come I don't know if they always make sense, but I need to get them out somehow.

Land of the Living!

Its been 4 day's but I finally feel good enough to be up and about.

It was very hard for a few day's I couldn't swallow anything it even hurt to breath sometimes.
The Dr. said that I had some extra acid that had built up and that's why I had such pain in my stomach. I am still in some pain but am trying to eat healthy food that will lower the acidic build up.

I was looking online and realized that there is a disease that you can get from acid reflux(GERD) it was not very pretty. I know that is not what I have but It still makes you wonder how do people let there bodies go so far that they get a disease from eating way too many acidic foods.

I was bummed that I didn't get to go to the first home game on Sat. with Ami & the boy's, instead I stayed home and rested with the baby. I did get to go to Church, they where working on construction so we only saw some of it but what we saw was very nice. It was a small crowd maybe a hundred or so. They had a great worship and sermon was well done.

We didn't meet very many people first I wasn't feeling one hundred percent ok and second we left really fast cause everyone was hungry.

Now that I seem to be over the hump, the boy's are starting to get sick. The oldest has a bad cough that won't let go and the youngest was up most of the night with a cough and runny nose and he just doesn't feel good. I am praying that they get over these quick and that no one else gets sick.

All in a Day!

I went out on my own into Zurich yeah!

I went in the morning around 10:45, first I had to get there so I traveled on the bus then the train. I was a little worried that I would go the wrong way or that I would get lost. I know that it was a silly worry.

I had fun I walked around then went down to the water and sat for a little bit.

Then I found a neat bookshop that sells English books, I bought a German/English dictionary.

Then I went back to the train station and walked around looking for somewhere to eat, I got to have fish & chips which was very good!

Then I came back the Apt. It was good for me to go and I had fun.

Yesterday I wasn't feeling well but I stuck it through. Today my stomach is a little weird, so I stayed home with Griffin for his nap while Ami took the older boy's to a huge Trampoline park.

We will see how it goes!

Time Again!

Well I think everyone will laugh at me, yesterday I lost it I just couldn't stop crying. I talked to my sister and cried almost the whole time. She tried so hard to make me feel better, but every time she would suggest something I would start to cry again.

When Ami and Curtis finally got home it was a little late for me to go out, and Ami saw me crying so I had to talk to her about it. I told her how I was feeling while crying the whole time, and she helped me to decide that I need more time to myself that I need to have more of a life than be stuck here all the time with almost no break.

I am going to try to go out again, this time I am going into Zurich and I want to go to a book store that we saw last time we went. Maybe walk along the water I don't know how long I will last before I need to come back, but I am planing to do my best.

A NEW WEEK!

Whew I made it through the weekend. I am not sure I totally made it intact, because right now the only thing I want to do is cry and be home with my family. I don't want Ami to see me like this its silly and I don't want her to think that I had a tough time with the boy's cause I didn't.

The weekend went fine I have no complaints. The boy's and I went swimming on Sat. they loved it. Mostly we just hung out here and went on walks around the neighborhood. We have a lot of parks around so it is fun to look for one that we haven't been on before.

On Sunday everything is closed, So we didn't do much. I would have liked to have gone to church but I can't drive the car, cause I am not on the insurance and I don't think taking three boy's on the bus into Zurich at 5pm all alone sounded fun.

Here I am again alone with the boys cause Ami had to go to therapy and I am trying to pull myself together. I know that I will be fine I am just ready for a break from here.

I just finished getting ready for my adventure to the airport mall, I even put on some makeup if you can believe it. I am not sure why but I thought that since I am going out and this will be the first time I have gotten dressed somewhat nice that I should go the whole way. I am a little apprehensive and excited at the same time.

I am much better now I am just being me Ha Ha!

New weekend!

This is going to be an interesting weekend. Ami & Curtis are going away for the whole weekend to Venice. They will be leaving tomorrow afternoon & won't be back until Sunday night.

It will be just me and the boy's. I am not worried about how it will go I have been running houses and bossing kids around for a long time. What I'm not looking forward to is all the time alone without another adult.

I am missing everyone right now soooo much, I think I need to take a break it's just that I don't like going or doing things all alone. Maybe that is what God wants me to learn while I am here.
This will be hard though, I am way too much of a home body. I do know that for my own sake that I should get out when I can even if I am alone.

Thankfully we found a church in Zurich its called International Christan Fellowship the web sight is( ICF.ch ). I can't wait to go I heard their are a few other Au Pair's (as they are called ) that are English speaking. It will be nice to make friends outside of the Brown's not that I don't enjoy them.

Thank God Ami is much better she talked with her sister, and the Blues, and they helped her put things into perspective. She also has made some good friends with the other wives of the team, she even got to go out the other night for a girls time.

I took the older boy's to go swimming today. I forget to pack a bathing suite so I usually sit on the side and watch the boy's, well today a life guard comes over and tells me that I cannot be in the pool area in my jeans and tank top I need to have a bathing suite. I tell him I don't have one, I could tell he was taking it over with the other staff, and they finally decide to let me this one time but warn me not to do it again. Then I take the boy's over to the diving boards which they love, after a little bit the boys want the noodles that are just on the side of the pool, they didn't have a sign over them and they weren't locked so I let the boy's have them thinking it was no big deal. Again I was wrong because before to long the life guard comes over and tells me that the noodles are only for swimming lessons. I came home and Ami and I had a good laugh over (Us Crazy Americans).

The Lord Is My Sheperd!

I have been reading a book about the Psalm 23 I have made it my prayer.

1The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth
me beside the still waters.
3He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for his name's sake.
4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy
staff they comfort me.
5Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine
enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth
over.
6Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of
my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

The other day I went to Utliberg which is a high hill on one of the mountains. On the Hill is this tall tower that you have to climb ten flights of stairs to get to the top. Here I am in a foreign country climbing these stairs all alone. When I got to the top the veiw is amazing looking down in the valley. I am so humbled by God's beauty all around me. How can anyone doubt God!

I know that I am supposed to be here even if it is only for a short time. Ami is struggling having left everything behind. They do not have a home right now and they will never go back to the life they had before in the NHL she feels like everything is at an end and she has to start all over in a foreign country and then again when they get back to the states. All's she wants is the best for her children, and husband, but feels like she is being shelfish wanting to here old life back. How do I help her? I know that through prayer, but I see her crying and worrying and not sleeping and my heart breaks for her I want to be able to help her but I can't.
I just pray and listen and wait for God to give her the peace she needs.

A Routine of Life

I just found out that today would be three years since Aubri's death. That makes me so sad to know that this family went through so much pain an loss. Yet through God's help they not only have healed but have turned around a made a foundation to be able to help others that have gone through a loss. You can visit it at: http://www.theaubribrownclub.org/

To make life as consistent as possible we have tried to make a routine of sorts. On a normal day we get up around 8:00 am, we get the boy's breakfast then get them ready and pick up the house.

Usually Ami starts school next, but there are day's when I will do school while she goes to therapy and or the store. Yesterday she got to visit the Gym with Heli ( Heli is one of the wives of a player, they are from Finland and have no children, so she is alone alot. She is a sweet heart though) she said it is alot different than what she is used to, but still planning to get a membership.

We try to get the boys outside at the least once a day. We have a small apt. and I feel bad that they are couped up in the house. I will either take them to the park behind our house or on a walk.

Griffin goes down for a nap at 2 till 5 that leaves that time which Ami and Curtis try to do something fun with the older boys like bowling, or swimming, or just out with their dad to the sport store.

We usually eat late which means Ami doesn't even start to make dinner till 5, but she is a excellent cook and the meals are delicious. We eat as a family except for game nights, then we eat simple because Curtis isn't usually here.
After dinner we clean up, and Curtis and Ami just spend time playing with the kids until bed which is at 8 for Griffin and between 8:30-9 for the other boy's.

After they go to bed we spend that time emailing and talking on the phone and cleaning until we go to bed.

I will often watch the boy's for a few hours while Ami goes to therapy and or the store. Ami & Curtis got to go on a date the other night, I am so glad that they got to do that. If for nothing else than for their sanity. Though I know that they had a good time.

I know that it is very hard for Ami and Curtis to adjust to this life both for separate reasons.
The changes for Curtis are that he is playing only on weekends and occasionally on a Tues night. Which means that he is home alot more than he has ever been before. This is something new for the family, because before they were living such separate lives during to season. For Ami the changes are that we live in a small Apt. which is something that everyone is getting used to. I think it is hard for her cause it is so much more simple here than anywhere else she has every lived. She is also struggling with the fact that she wont be able to go back to the Sates until April.
She also wants the best for her boy's so is trying to find cheap (almost not possible ) and fun activity's that will keep her boy's occupied and entertained.

I know that God sent this family here for a reason, I don't know all that will be yet. What I do know is that even in the three weeks we have been here I have seen changes. My prayer daily is that they will be open to receive what God has for them, and at peace with it.

What is God's plan?

It seem that God is trying to say something. We have had something go wrong since we got here, and each time we get it settled something else happens.

First I didn't have my luggage for a whole week. It seems the Airline didn't send it with us when we left LA, and then they decide that its only worth $150 of there time. I thank God that it came though!

Second we didn't have our furniture, and still to this point don't. Who knows when its going to get here.

Third the Wii that Ami brought over broke, so we are going to try to send it home to get fixed. We looked in the store to see if we could buy a new one, only everything is in German. Ha ha that plan didn't work out too well.

Fourth Ami's watch went missing, and trust me when I say we looked for it everywhere. It is very sad that this happened mostly because it was a gift to Ami so it means alot to her, and it wasn't a cheap watch. I am still believing that it is going to show up.

Fifth just the other day the Swiss Authority's told Ami & Curtis that they may not home school there kids. When Ami talked to them she made it clear that she has a degree and has put alot of planing a effort and time into the curriculum. I believe the team manager looked into it and talked to them. Thank God we get a message back today that said they will let us school them this year, but then they will check up on us again next year.

Sixth today when they went to go get a toy for Griffin from the Toy store the gift certificate that they had was missing. We looked all over for that as well.

I am not saying these things to complain, but every time a new thing happens it is a little bit harder for Ami to take. Her life is very different here, and I think she is having the hardest time adjusting to it. I know that God has a plan and my prayer is that he will continue to guide this precious family.

MY AMAZING ADVENTURE!

Here I am out on an adventure that fell in my lap, how God weaves our lives is amazing!

I have now been in Switzerland for three weeks. I am not here for fun, but everyday is an adventure.

I am a nanny for three young boys ( Gage 5 yrs. old, Garrett 4 yrs. old & Griffin 1 yrs. old) who every day I am here I love a little bit more.

The first week was very hard for everyone with the time change, the family being from Cal. was now 9 hrs ahead and I was 6 hrs ahead of NY. I believe night was the hardest the boys woke up most nights for at the least an hour and Griffin cried in the middle of the night for a good hour to two hours. Finally they settled in and now are sleeping all night long.

Week two we are still waiting for our furniture to come, and trying to find things for the boys that would be fun. Let me explain about our furniture. We live in a 5 1/2 bedroom apt. that is on the 4th floor with no elevator. Our apt. is owned by a company that rents it fully furnished, however we don't have a desk that Ami needs badly, and some of the rooms don't have dressers so for the first few weeks I was living out of my suite case.
The guy from the company came and looked over all the things that we need, and said that he would get right on it. We are three weeks in and still waiting. All in Gods time though!

Week three we started to home school the two older boys, well actually I watch the other two boys while Ami schools. I think she is really enjoying it. We do need prayers though, because we just found out that Authority's might insist that we send the boys to school since they have applied for Visa's for two years.