I’m just rambling…

Not that I have anything interesting to write or any great recent pictures of the girls at hand; I’m just bored with this really old post.  What’s with the Johnson sisters?  It takes us like a month on average to write something new.  What a crazy day it’s been – no the whole week really.  Well, maybe just life in general.  I have a ladies’ bible study to prepare for Thursday and tomorrow’s – shock – Wednesday already.  So why’m I sitting here blogging?  Good question.  The days fly by unbelievably fast.  And I have so little to show for them.  My house looks like a tornado hit – permanently.  And I count a total of 45 minutes that I spent with my daughter Mikaela today.  No lie.  We had to go into Warsaw as soon as we dropped her off for kindergarten to do more interviewing for our application to temporarily reside here.  We waited in line for 2 hours (luckily Maia was feeling almost nice today   and then an hour more during the interview.  Very uninteresting and yes, more documents are required.  Never mind the 2 solid inches of paperwork that he had on his desk for EACH of us already.  (That’s not an exaggeration)  Hopped in the car, raced through trafficky Warsaw and read through my notes and Ben’s all the 1 and a half hours home, picked Kaela up from a friend’s house, ran into the house, changed quickly and jumped back in the car to head to the most hilarious church volleyball outing I’ve ever been to!  My friend Nadiya has a good heart, but she’s the craziest volleyball player I’ve ever seen.  I was CRYING, it was so funny.  Man I’m going to miss her.  She and her husband have been our coworkers for the last almost 3 years and they’re moving this month.  I can’t even think about it.  She’s the only person around here with whom I’ve felt able to really share what’s in my heart.  Not that we always understand one another, she’s Ukranian and we both speak in not very pretty Polish.  But we try.  And she’s so funny!  Not that she tries to be.  She just has these hilarious old Ukranian wives tales that she totally believes.  Like when you have a stuffy nose, hang upside down and pour a mixture of onion juice  and honey up your nose.  Yeah, that’d do it!!  Ben has been collecting Nadiya’s bits of advice and writes them all in his leather journal.  Maybe I’ll post them sometime.   Kaela asked me while we were in the car on our way out to volleyball what a cigarette is.  The Johnson in me caused me to go into a lot of detail – as much as I knew – about cigarettes.  She decided that people that grow tobacco don’t understand how dangerous it is, and if they do, then they must only want the bad guys to smoke it.  She seemed disturbed and said that she just hadn’t KNOWN that cigarettes were bad.  Then she asked me if there are a lot of other bad things in the world that she doesn’t know about yet.  She said she thought a lot of people don’t know that cigarettes are dangerous and that we should tell everyone.  And on the way home from volleyball, she asked me to tell her a ‘real’ story that really happened and she said she’d tell me one too.  She wanted to go first so she told me the story of Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection.  I love that kid so much it makes my heart hurt.