Our African Adventure: June 9th...where are you??

This week has been supper busy, a little stressful, and very sad. I had my first company tea on Tuesday and I remembered why I will NEVER do it again. Monday and Tuesday afternoon I went to the boys classes and helped their classes make letters for their teachers and gave them a little present for the end of the year. Wednesday we had mosaic class to finish our soap dispensers. Yesterday, we(the new PTA board) had our first meeting at the school. The ladies that will not be here next year really ran us through the ringer. I am hoping we have some nicer moms attend the meetings next year. :-) Today our Egyptian friends are leaving Angola for good. I have spent most of the day with them at their house and it was very hard to say goodbye. They are some of the nicest people we have meet.

To top off the day, I had one of our bus moms screaming at me. She is new at riding the bus and last week Jacob came home almost in tears because she wouldn't let Jared ride by him on the bus. I simply asked her to please allow my boys to ride by each other unless they are causing problems and if they are please let me know and I will take care of it at home. I just didn't want them to be punished for nothing. She said I was acting like she was only doing this to my kids and she was doing it to all kids on the bus because they are to noisy. I told her I never have a problem with the kids being to loud on the bus and I let them all ride by each other. She said they drive her crazy and this was the rule and if I didn't like the way she was doing it I could take her place on Fridays. I asked her to please stop yelling at me because I was just trying to have a conversation with her. I don't think she heard that part. :-) After about 5 minutes of being yelled at I told her I would make sure my boys didn't ride the bus when she was bus mom and I said thank you and bye. Kenny said I should have hung up on her when she first started yelling. I just wanted to have a conversation with her about my kids on the bus but apparently she took it personal. When the boys got off the bus I asked them about it and they said she wouldn't let them ride in the back of the bus but they were able to ride together.

After this I am done with all things company related when it comes to these women. I am not going to put myself in a situation that I have to deal with this kind of behavior. We are all grown adults and we are all in this together. We should be able to have adult conversations about our kids when it comes to the bus and how they are acting. I will be the first to say I want to know if my kids are not acting right on the bus and I will take care of it. Apparently, this is not going to be the case.

Here are a few pictures from the week. Also, last Friday Jacob had his end of the year party at our compound.