I thought it might be fun to share what a typical day looks like here for us in England. While there are many days that aren't "typical", here is what a day looks like that we don't have sometime out of the norm to do....
Michael normally gets up first (esp. depending on when Evie--the early bird--wakes) and gets himself ready for the day and gets Evie breakfast. I will feed Silas and get myself going for the day. We have to get SK ready for school and all the kiddos dressed and fed. If it's not raining, I will take the laundry outside and hang it to dry (we don't have a dryer). I put dishes away that were washed from the night before (No dishwasher either). Michael heads off to the church office to get to work and I head with the kiddos to take SK to school. It is .8 miles to her school from our house, so that ends up being about a 15 minute walk each way. I might stop in a the cafe and say hi to whoever is working and get a latte depending on how Evie is doing. We normally have to stop by the grocery store to get food for lunch/dinner for the day. Then we head home to do things around the house/have lunch/naps/etc till it's time to go get SK from school at 3.
When SK gets home, she practices piano and does any homework she might have then we have dinner together.
Here's where things get more interesting for our life here though...I can't drive here yet. First obstacle is we have a stick shift, which I don't know how to drive (I am learning slowly, but limited on time for Michael to take me to a parking lot to practice) and second is learning how the roads work here. Not only do we drive on the other side of the road from what we are used to, but there are so many signs that are different and figuring out the roundabouts--which are so crazy to me!). So all that to say, if I need to go anywhere outside the village, I either ride the bus or Michael has to take me. Thankfully I can take the bus to Leigh which has more shops and such or to Warrington, but when I take the bus I also have to be able to carry or fit in the stroller whatever I am getting. So for instance...today. I needed to get out this week to get things for SK's b'day party which is this coming Sunday. I had to have Michael take me.
It just adds to the craziness of how we accomplish things each week. Thankfully, we can get most things we "need" each week from shops here in the village. I have also had a bit of a hard time adjusting to not being able to just jump in the car and go somewhere with the kids while Michael works.
Now yesterday....yesterday was just crazy. We made plans to go to Leeds (about 1 hour from Culcheth) to see Jevon, a young man in our church who has been off at University. He was having his Senior Art show and we wanted to go and see his work. We made plans to drop SK off at school at 8:45 and be back by 3 when she gets out. We thought that should give us time to see the show and have lunch then drive back.
Well...that didn't happen. There was an accident on the motorway (Interstate) which shut it down for practically the entire day. We were able to find our way to Leeds with another route, but ended up taking almost 2 hours to get there. We thought we might be alright on the way back and surely the roads would be clear for our return home...we were wrong. We got back in the car about 2:30 (we had made arrangements for someone to get SK from school and watch her till we got back since we saw we weren't going to be back by school pick up time). Wanna know what time we arrived home? 8:30. Yep...6 hours later. At one point, while sitting stopped on the motorway, we began to wonder if we would run out of gas, since the gage was reading so low and we were barely moving. On top of that there were 4 adults in the car, only 1 phone left with any charge...
It was an interesting, long day. That is one way I can sum it up. We were all so tired by the time we got home. Of course we rush about after getting home to get kids in the bed and bring the laundry in from outside (which was wet since it ended up raining while we were gone) and get it hung inside to dry.
I did end up with a fun surprise waiting on me at home from a dear friend. She had ordered me some Kraft marshmallows and had them shipped to me. I can tell you...that small act of love and care meant so much to me after such a long day. So I gobbled up a handful and then headed to bed.
Well there ya go. Just wanted to share on here what life is looking like here these days.
Maybe more blogging will happen soon. I have said that before though haven't I? :)
SK is having a birthday party on Sunday. She has invited all of the little girls in her class over for a tea party. I am excited to get to meet her friends and celebrate her! Pics will come from that too hopefully!
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