'Things have Changed"- Inayah

I should be sleeping, waiting on Khalid and Ishmael to come home but I might not make it. At least was able to get the little boys to sleep in their room and not on the livingroom floor, which has been a campground for the last few nights. Inayah has been on www.ixl.com which is a great website, you can try it for free for a little while, I went ahead and paid for a month membership. They all have been using it and all seem to like it. Idreis has spent the last hour trying to build a card castle, he has not gotten pass the second level, but each time it falls, he sighs, and starts again, so determined. We didnt do too much today, took Idreis back to the dentist to have his cavity temporarily filled, he will go back for the third visit on the 31st. We walked down to the big store, still no cash, but my goldcard worked just fine, so we bought a few things, managed the three bags up the stairs. Isa is such a helper, only thing is I should not have given him the bag with the pickles, he somehow managed to bust the glass and the bottom of the flight, so there was a big pickle juice spill as we walked in and a pickle juice trail leading all the way up the stairs to our door... Oh well.. We Skyped with a few family members today and that was fun, it is nice to see everyone. Makes us feel just a little bit closer. Looking forward to my birthday tomorrow.
Inayah had Idreis' first grade teacher and they were both comparing their time with her. Both remembering times with Mrs. Bielke during the lockdowns and emergency drills. So, when Idreis was informing her on his version, she politely and snickerly said, "Things have changed", we all cracked up.
Dinner was a bit of a joke, well lets just say, thrown together, but everyone ate. Pickles and cheese for starters... dont know what kind of cheese we purchased at the store but one of them was like a smokey string cheese and the other one... really could ahve used some crackers, I jsut hope it wasn't goat cheese or something, but they ate it. Then they had bananas and pears followed by french fries and steamed shrimp... The one cool part of being overseas is you can always blame the dinner on the lack of having a Lunds around the corner to pick up what you need.
Khalid and them won the game, he had 14points and 6 assists. I'm sure Ishmael had a blast on the road.