Friday, December 7, 2012

Neighbor update

My home has been taken over by neighbor kids.  Most days I love the conversations, tutoring and food sharing that occurs. However, I am not quite as fond of the days they come over and just want to put on their headphones and use our computer. Can't have much of a conversation when aren't talking. :/ It has been great as far as helping them with school. Almost every day one of them needs some kind of homework help. Since most of it is math homework, Josh ends up doing the brunt of the tutoring (although I've gotten some English once or twice). In the meantime I've had great conversations with the kids about school, future dreams, faith, church, and home. Since they are at our house every day for at least a few hours, we have started setting some boundaries because its not very helpful to our family to never have Josh home without them over. Typically within 20 minutes of Josh coming home at least one of them is stopping by  (they see his car in the drive and then know we are home). The kids need time with their daddy too!  They don't take hints so we just tell them they need to go home when my kids are getting ready for bed. They are supposedly moving in a week.  It's definitely bittersweet to see them move.

1 comment:

  1. I love your heart for your neighbors Kelly. And good job with the boundaries too, you do need some 'alone family time'. I remember when we lived in Detroit some of the neighbor kids would just walk right in the house, definitely a different culture thing I think! But that is so awesome that you guys can help them

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