I bet you were all thinking that now that I have 3 little girls, that life is now smooth and easy and blissful in this tropical paradise where I now reside. Maybe I should quickly try to dispell this deception!

Early this week, when we were sitting down with the little girls to do math,  Jason casually noted that Memewah is ahead of Meme in Math. Unfortunately, Meme understands English very well, and instead of it making her want to do better and catch up, she decided that she didn’t know any math at all! Thus ensued several hard days of trying to convince her that it is far easier to do math than pushups, and whatever else we could come up with. After several days of this intense activity, Memewah decided that she was not getting enough attention anymore, and would need to do a bit of acting up herself. This meant that now we had two disobedient little girls on our hands, and so we could no longer tag team with Meme! ( I was sick too!)

Now, that sounds like enough excitement for me since we do not dare let them win any battles if we expect to have well behaved and loving teens, so after dozens of grizzly runs and the like, we were really praying hard for well behaved children! But then….Hannah noticed that the older girls were getting a lot of attention…She had been doing really well with her potti training, but now was the chosen moment to forget all that she had ever learned and go potti on the floor at every possible occasion. Roy took this opportunity to accompany Pawkuhmooeydee on a school field trip, so he was blessedly not available to help anymore. At the time I was really wishing that I could be the one to go.

Then, Roy and Pawkuhmooeydee came home early. Their report of the “field trip” sent us plunging into another dilema. It seems that the school that we so happily sent our kids to, is not a good school after all. This is not a Christian country, and the things that they want the kids to do are dreadful in the extreme. One example of this was that on this trip, the kids were made to dance in front of the teacher. If the teacher did not like it, then they had to slither through a mud bog, then drink water from it, and then spit the water into a bottle. Then the teacher poured this spit out dirty water all over their faces.

We feel that it is now absolutely necessary to become a legal Thai school so that we can give our children a Christian education. I have no idea of how to do this, other than that I am told that I will need someone to run it that has a degree in education, or at least a college degree…I am not sure which. I am planning to start pursueing this course as soon as possible. (any volunteers????)

So,  my answer is no…we are not laying in our hammock sipping limeade, but we are working hard to try to rescue as many kids from the clutches of Satan as possible!