“Let’s see if I can remember how to do this teaching thing” the Professor said this morning as he was leaving the house. It has been such a nice long winter break, and I have been so lucky to have Courtney around these last few weeks of my pregnancy. He has been working very, very hard on his academic projects, but just having had him around has been a great help, and fun. When I look at other expat families here that are not associated with the university, I think of how lucky we are; we may not have a lot of money, a car with a driver, a fancy villa, a full time maid or a cook or a nanny, but we have a lot of time together, and the boys are truly flourishing.
My mother is flying in from Sweden today, and she’ll arrive in Cairo tonight. I’m so excited; it’s the first time she’s visiting us here, and I haven’t seen her since July of 2008. We’ll have three days with her before the birth to explore the neighborhood and perhaps even go out to the pyramids (although she has seen them before, she has never been there with us).
In the middle of all this, I’m also trying to get a few last things arranged, like finishing a couple of school projects with the boys, getting everything in our apartment fixed, and most of all; get through all of my editing jobs.
On that note, I should get back to work.
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