School in Japan...again....
We are nearing the end of the school year (school in Japan ends in March, and the new school year begins in April) and so the kids have had their end of the year performances and observation days, and I LOVE THEM! There are often times that we wonder if we made the right choice putting our kids in the local schools here. We did have the more "comfortable" option of putting them in school on base. But when we go to events like the ones we have been to over the past couple of weeks I can't help but be so incredibly grateful that we made the more difficult, time consuming and uncomfortable decision. The decision that stretches all of us, sometimes past our limits. The decision that is physically, mentally and emotionally exhausting ever. single. day. Why? This one simple decision has allowed not only our children to learn and grow in ways they never would have been able to otherwise, but also myself, Andrew, our family all together. Some of the minor thi...