Things Are Changing

The biggest change for us is David. He is joining the Japanese Army.  He will leave on March 29th. He will do basic training for 3 months, then receive training in some area, hopefully something that can be used in civilian life.  He will stay for at least 4 years then decide if he wants to continue or leave.
I have very mixed feelings about this. Happy/sad.  He is the first to leave home which makes it rather sad.  But I'm glad that he has found something that he wants to do.  The past few years he has been rather aimless!  One big thing is that I have to start cooking again, I have relied on David to take of things the past two or three years!

To enter the army you have to take a test and do an interview.  For that David had to buy a suit.  Top picture was practicing tying his tie, bottom two are on the morning of the test.

I don't know about anybody else but I am rather tired of this coronavirus.  I'm a little worried about the disease it self, more worried about Hannah. She was born premature, before her lungs had developed which means that her lungs are rather weak, even flu can be dangerous for her!  We are washing hands and wiping down surfaces with a bleach solution.  I haven't stopped teaching as it is my only source of income but will if the virus is reported in my town.  I'm more worried about the economic side, I feel that it will take years to recover.  My business has been hit bad, this is the best time to recruit new students.  Most years we will get about 10 new students from the end of February and March.  This year only 2!!   It's going to be hard!

And just because I need to finish with something cute, here are the new fur babies.

Their eyes are open and they are trying to move more!