Car!

First, as an update for the previous post about the decision for school, I thought of a couple other things that have made my decision difficult:
1. A positive for staying home with Sterling a couple of days a week would be that our life would be so much less hectic and crazy feeling. Right now we are just barely getting everything done during the week, and then playing catch up on the weekends.
2. A negative for doing the tutoring is that it will be really really expensive. It's $40/hour and I would want to do it three times a week for 2 hours each session. That's $240/week, which is a lot more than just doing school. I'm not sure we can actually afford that much, which means I would have to get less tutoring- which is definitely not a good thing.
3. A positive for doing the academic program is that I can always be done after a quarter is finished. So even if I do this quarter, I could still be done in July, and start doing tutoring then.
Okay, well, that's just more food for thought and I really am open to hearing your thoughts about it. In the end we will do what is best for our family no matter what!
We finally got our car today! It has taken a really long time to get it due to a lot of different circumstances, but we are SO glad to have it now. It came at perfect timing because the last two days have been rainy, snowy and incredibly windy...so we were about at the end of our ropes with riding our bikes in this kind of weather.






This is a piece of art that Sterling made at school. It is an origami doll (Colette helped draw the faces on for him). Here is what I read about why they made them:
"The Hina Matsuri or Doll Festival or Girl's Festival is celebrated on March 3. On this day, families with girls wish their daughters a successful and happy life. Dolls are displayed in the house together with peach blossoms. The doll festival has its origin in a Chinese custom in which bad fortune is transferred to dolls and then removed by abandoning the doll on a river. On Hina Matsuri, sweet sake is drunken and chirashi sushi is eaten." So I'm not sure why Sterling made them, except that I think everyone at school made the dolls. Also, just as a side note, Sterling's teacher (his "sensei" in Japanese, which is what he calls her, it's so cute!) has been telling us that he is really beginning to make Japanese friends since his American friends only come a couple of days a week. One friend especially is named Haruku and they gave each other high fives today when Sterling was leaving...again, so cute!