Very Proud of Audrey!

Don't you love catching your kids doing something great?

There's a lot of calling kids back to turn the lights off, hang up the towel, get your elbows off the table, do your homework, do your homework, have you done your homework yet, for the thousandeth time, put the salad forks in the salad fork place in the silverware drawer! Detail is important! Learn to do things correctly the first time so you don't have to do it twice.

Oh dear. You see how my days usually go now, don't you?  Parenting. Not for the faint at heart, indeed,

But today I sat down at the computer and Audrey was logged into her Facebook. It was on a mutual friend of ours page, so I thought I was logged into mine and I clicked on the "Notifcation" tab and saw that "Meru Chey commented on her wall post" as well as "Meru Chey accepted your friend request."

I leave her Facebook page and move to the next tab on Internet Explorer and it's a "Google Translate" page.

On the left (English) side it says

Hi Meru I'm so happy you got a Facebook

and on the right (Japanese) side it says

こんにちはメルー私はあなたがFacebookを持ってうれしい

There have been several new children in Audrey's class the past month or so and mostly they are Japanese. Generally, a service member has married a Japanese woman and then his (now) stepchildren come into our school and don't speak much English.

I am soooooooooooooo proud of Audrey for reaching out to these kids and not only forming a friendship, but going that extra step in making them feel valued by trying to speak to them in their native language, while they are working hard at learning English! 

Thursday I biked out with Audrey to her Kumon (Japanese) lesson and I peeked around the corner at the end and took several pictures in my mind of her smiling and interacting with the Sensei and trying so hard with the testing portion of the lesson.

She has really embraced living here in Japan and I'm so proud of her!!!

Must get back to the mundane Mothering (as opposed to bragging Mothering) now....but it's ALL WORTH IT!!!