April

April was a busy month both in Indonesia and at home.

We started the month by taking our staff and their families to the local copy of Disney, Dunia Fantasi (DuFan), on the Good Friday holiday.  This was a big treat for them.  Most had never been before.  It's pretty expensive for locals.  On Sunday we then celebrated Easter with a bunch of sleepy kids.

Later in the month, on Earth Day back in Arizona, we had a fundraiser for our niece who is fighting a tough battle with Pulmonary Hypertension and two holes in her heart.  I had the idea to use our retail store, Kid to Kid, as a fundraising opportunity to help pay the medical bills.  All of the profits earned on that Saturday went to the medical bills fund.


In March, our daughter started two soccer leagues - a coed league on Friday afternoons and an all-girls league on Saturday mornings.  I help coach the one on Saturday.  She is one of two girls on the co-ed league and didn't enjoy soccer very much until she started the all-girls league.  She's getting pretty good.  I hope she sticks with it.

Our youngest son reached a new milestone by starting his cruising phase.  Anything that he can hold onto and walk, he does.  Including the little kids chairs that will scrape across the marble floors like nails on a chalkboard.  He's pretty proud of himself, though, so we just grit our teeth and let him go.

My wife and I also try to find time for fun.  We took the kids to another Disney on Ice (we've been to all four visits from them since we arrived in Jakarta).  We also made it out to dinner with friends - something that happens far too infrequently.