Tick, Tock

I feel like I am noticing every minute of my life...and not in a good way. The wait to find out whether or not we leave for Russia next week is still getting to me. I know I should just assume we are going, and prepare myself to leave. For some reason, it is not that simple. I am just thinking about it every single second. We talked to our Coordinator today, and she still is holding out some hope that our trip will go forward. She just doesn't know. We are supposed to follow up with her later in the week. Tick, tock...

So to stay positive, I am practicing the Russian I think I may need. Since I can't type in Cyrillic, I'll have to spell it phonetically: Yesh-cho adno peeva, pajalusta. Yesh-cho adno votka, pajalusta. Mnyeh nyeh harasho. Nyeplaha-ya biyla vyechyereenka, ah?

So, now I can say: Another beer, please. Another vodka, please. I'm not feeling well. and That was some party, eh?
OK, I don't foresee actually using that last one. It is interesting what they put in travel Phrasebooks. Perhaps they were written by Canadians, eh?

News from the small people:
Liam is all into using scientific jargon now, as they learn about doing experiments, making predictions, etc. So on Sunday night we heard Jim coming home from his hockey game, and Liam told me "Sometimes I wish Daddy would just come home from his game all grumpy, because then I could INFER that he lost his game, and I wouldn't have to ask him." Be careful what you wish for, Liam... But I do appreciate the correct usage of "infer". He also has a hilarious song that involves Precipitation, Evaporation, Accumulation that I will have to video some time.

Natalie goes through phases where she likes to carry her purse. It is a Dora purse, pink, and full of little Dora things like a mirror, powder case, etc. And it is always very heavy. Like any woman's purse. Except in this case, were you to ask "What do you have in there, rocks?" she would answer very politely YES, Do you want to see them? She collects rocks from beside our driveway a lot, and puts them in her purse. So she is a 3 yr old with a 5 pound purse...full of rocks.