The joys of being a stay-at-home mom and my first farewell...

As we are quickly approaching our 6 month anniversary, I am still trying to manage the schedule, to-dos and lifestyle here. Ok the lifestyle, I think I have figured out and totally love. However, it's been a struggle to realize that I may have a few things here and there to do or places to go or people to see but a lot of stuff comes up last minute and the inconsistency is freaking me out a little (not complaining, of course). From being a total planner, knowing what to expect at all times, it's just not like that here and on the seat of my pants I must fly and enjoy the ride. I am creating my own schedule for school which is the priority during the day.
The joy in such opportunities include being a stay-at-home mom. I have been helping out at the kiddos school. I assist Mason's teacher from taking pictures, to cutting things out etc.- no matter what it is I get to do it and it's awesome! In Hannah's class I have been teaching them yoga every Thursday. This week they each got a letter of the alphabet and got to create their own yoga pose inspired by the letter. It's these moments and baking for the teacher's birthday or making treats for Halloween that are absolutely priceless.

The downside of living here is everyone will leave at some point. Yesterday, I experienced my first farewell(s) luncheon. My friend said "it's like going to a funeral. Everyone reminisces about you and there is a slide show of pictures of you..." etc.. She was so right and just like at funerals there were lots of tears. There are two women leaving (one who has been here 20 years and another 5 years), both were some of my biggest yoga supporters. They are truly loving and amazing women and I had a very special bond with them. While sitting there in tears with all the ladies, I began thinking about how sad I was to see these ladies leave and that I probably wont see them again but it was the thought of my poor kiddos going through this with their friends here and how they had to go through it before they left. I acknowledge it's part of the deal here but it's definitely not easy. One thing that seemed to be repeated was to enjoy how precious this place is and especially the women but don't have just one friend because some day they will leave too.     

As always, to be continued...