Life goes on, ready or not!

Here's what life looks like for us this week:

• The boys have various projects due, including some biggies. One on the human brain and another on deforestation. I'm trying not to get too involved in either of these. I tell myself, "You've already passed 5th and 9th grades, it's a part of them learning responsibility."

  

  This is a Cherry Blossom (sakura). No, they're not
  out yet, but other blooms are. Today's 16 degrees and
  it's starting to feel a lot like spring. Of course Friday
  is forecast to be rainy and 9 degrees, but that's
  spring in Japan!

• The high schoolers have a Spring Banquet coming up. It's a girls and boys go in pairs, kind of formality. Our son, for the first time in his life, has asked a girl on a "date". He doesn't see it like that. She's just a mate who he hangs around with at lunch-time. But he did have to ask. New territory for us all!
• David is going to Thailand on Friday morning with the seniors for eight nights. I can feel my anxiety rising, despite trying to remain calm!
• Plugging away at home assignment preparation:
• talking with the ladies who'll be living in our house (have I told you that yet?),
• seeking a home for our turtle and car, 
• fielding emails from Australia about setting up house there,
• discussing when we can replace this computer: here or there,
• and so on!
• I'm working on the magazine, as usual. 
• We're trying to get the spring issue out soon after the winter issue (which won't be out till the first week of April). 
• Working out details with the person who's volunteered to do part of my job while we're in Australia.
• I'm tidying up the 31 Days of Prayer for Japan project for OMF. Searching out photos, marketing etc.
• This afternoon, I'm about to go to my third performance of Charlotte's Web. It is a CAJ tradition for the third grade class. This is the first year we've had our youngest in a grade where both his brothers have also been in that grade. I saw my eldest's class perform this play six years ago, somehow missed my middle son's class, it must have been a schedule clash.

Yes, life goes on and you either go with it, or you get dragged along behind. 

By the way, does anyone in Tokyo want a turtle for a year?