International Worldview

Let's take a look at what's happening around the world, shall we? Hmm... Yi So-yeon, South Korea's first astronaut (I can't believe that they haven't had a person in space until now!), had a terrifying experience when the Russian spaceship she was on made a sudden steep descent towards Earth this last weekend. She was staying aboard the Soyuz capsule, and just got back down to Mother Earth today! You can read the full article here. (Interesting fact: South Korea paid Russia, wait for it...$20 million for the right to send Yi to the Soyuz!)

The world's largest island just got a little bit larger. (For those who don't know, it's Australia, but you knew, right?!) Australia extended control of its continental shelf by nearly 1 million square miles (an area five times larger than France) under an agreement with the United Nations. They hope to find oil and other natural resources there. Apparently, it's pretty much unexplored territory. (Of course, since it's seabed!) You can read the article here.

Let's skip halfway across the world to Jerusalem, Israel, where Greek and Armenian worshippers got into a fight, it started when an Armenian clergy kicked out a Greek priest. When police tried to intervene, they got hit with palm fronds that the crowd was holding. (It happened this palm Sunday) But guess where it happened! Over the site in Jerusalem believed to be the spot where Jesus was buried and rose from the dead! What a nice place to have a fight. >_> You can read the full article here.

Israle is certainly full of news today. According to former president, Jimmy Carter, Hamas, (an Islamic group who have called for the destruction of Israel) has agreed to live in peace with Israel, and accept Israel as it's neighbor. But there will be no peace if the U.S. and Israel continue to shut out Hamas' main supporter, Syria. Wonder how it will play out. Apparently, this dates back to 1967, when there was a war, and the land known as the Gaza Strip was taken over by military forces. You can read the full article here.

We're certainly lucky to have the Internet, to be able to know what's going on halfway across the world with just a couple mouseclicks, another cool thing about the Internet! And thanks to all those news reporters and journalists who write up those articles!

Fuming!

Okay, look at this.

"When I wasn't with my Mom in the emergency room/hospital, I was at home. Usually multi-tasking. Getting the boys something to drink, making lunch, putting the boys down for a nap, making sure Claire cleaned her room, getting laundry done and making sure Parker did the dishes. But he's usually good about that."

That's from Olivia's blog, um, hello! "Making sure Parker did dishes?!" (How old does she think I am, 5?! I do dishes fine!) Grr...Sorry, just needed to fume! (And I'm sure you all just love to hear me sit here and cyber-complain, dont'cha? :D)

A Sunny Day

It's so quiet in our house right now, the babies are sleeping, Olivia and I are doing school, oh, and Claire is staying at my aunt's house. (Hope she's having fun!) Times like right now are good for going outside to read a book, or something relaxing like that. (In stark contrast with this) We've been having such good weather the past few days, too. It's about 70 degrees outside right now, and so sunny. Seems like the perfect day, not too hot, not too cold, birds singing... (Seriously, when it's 85 degrees out and the mosquitoes are eyeing you as an afternoon snack, yeah, not so lovely) It makes me wanna sing a song and DANCE!!! (Hee hee, just kidding, like I'd ever do anything like that in public, well, does my room count?) Going on a bike ride would be good, too! Olivia and I took Gabriel and "miniature Corbin Bleu," as Olivia calls him, to the park, they had fun, although they cried when we had to go home, aww...I hope we have nice weather like this all summer too, no more rain!

We're back!

After another long break, I'm back! Well I've got a good excuse okay! Our family has had quite the month. We got two new fosterchildren, I can't say their names for legal reasons. (Yikes!) They're brothers, one of them is three and has totally crazy cool hair! (nickname: crazy hair), and the other is two months (nickname: Baby E). (I think) They're really sweet, but don't put Baby E down, he gets really mad, he likes to be held.

Crazy Hair and Gabe have a love/hate relationship, they'll play so nicely one minute, and then the next, Gabe is throwing things at Crazy Hair, and Crazy Hair's running for cover! They'll have conversations too, and argue about the funniest things. (Example:

Crazy Hair: *pointing at Baby E* That's my baby brother!
Gabe: *pointing at Nate* That's my Nate!

Etc, etc. It's funny! Anyway, a few days after we got them, Nate landed in the hospital. (For the third time that week) He'd been losing weight and throwing up, stuff like that. (I must sound horrible, just dismissing it like that, right? Oh, it's nothing, he's just been throwing up, no big deal) Well, he ended up staying in for a while, my poor mom, she stayed him most of the time, and she barely got any sleep. (Nate didn't either, but he doesn't sleep anyway) The doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with Nate, the diagnosis kept changing, ugh! We all had to step up, Olivia and I became like mini-adults, babysitting, even cooking dinner. (In case you wanna know, I can make spaghetti and meatballs!) It's nice to know that we're responsible enough to take care of siblings, but boy is it nice to finally take a break! :D