Homeschooling!

That's a perfect title for this post! Last week, my kids only went to school for a day, the rest of the week Fairfax County schools were closed! Since we moved, my kids hardly go to the school. Some days I see no reason for schools to be closed, but by night we receive an email from the county, and there we go again! My daughter has no complain though! She almost prays for snow every night these days! On the other hand, not only I am home with them I also have to keep up with her snow day assignments!!!! The problem is, I hardly understand the math problems, sometimes I start studying in the morning! So when we sit together, if she asks me a question I can have the right answer for her!!! Even my four years old now know when the schools are going to be closed. He basically takes a peek from his window in the morning, if he sees snow he claps his hands with an excitement and yells 'hey, no school today!'. Funny enough, when I go to grocery shopping, I see moms dragging their kids with them, and from kids' face I can easily tell they are not having fun either! Hoping this crazy weather, with a degree of no more than '-4C' almost everyday will be out of the door soon!

Have you ever feel stuck!

I always knew that I am not a creative person. I do not have inner voice that brings up ideas or exiting concepts, it is just not happening. And again I proved it to myself last few weeks! As you may already know, or learning now, I am in the middle of creating life coaching practise hence developing a website. Of course to be in the business I have to have a business name, but I am stuck! So much reading is no help, it has to come naturally but nope not happening so soon! I never expect to become a Van Gogh all of sudden, but having genuine creativity, just a little one, would not hurt! I have pretty much wrote and erased 100 + ideas on my PC. It got worse when I asked our brothers and their significant others' at the table during our Sunday brunch! All of a sudden they all became one heck of a hidden talent! But how can you own somebody else's idea, right? Or is this a way too noble of thinking in today's world? Just look around, do not we all inspired by each other?

"Security email"

This morning while I was going through my emails I saw the "security email" from US Embassy in Kenya. That reminded me I should take our names from their list, anyway. I could not help myself reading the email, let's call it an old habit! These emails meant so much to me, not long ago, only 3 months back...That made me think again how quickly a life can change for better or worse, and in some cases we cannot control it...Per the email, security has increased and there is a significant threat in Kenya for expats or western community. I thought about friends in Nairobi, how we used to worry about these threats, it almost consumed us all day. It was the only talking point when we saw each other at the school. Of course you never hear good things from people, bad news is the first one to spread too quickly! No matter what we talked about, life always went on, we did what we needed to do. And I know no matter how concerned they are, they have to go on with their lives in there. Whenever I see streets of Nairobi on TV or hear news about Kenya, I instantly stop what I am doing and pay my full attention whatever the subject is. I feel strongly attach to that country, and I do not think it will ever change. Because our three years in Kenya touched and left lots of marks in our lives, the and the bad...