maybe the last time for awhile?

Hello, it`s children time on Japanese TV, 4 pm. And I found out this week that 3pm is the universal kids snack time here. Which Sage loves, he said I like the snacks here better than the food! OOooh they are getting spoiled with snacks. Snacks are really big here, new ones come out all the time and they are very inventive. Baba and aunt Sayoko have been very generous with them, so when we cut back I have a feeling that the kids are going to ask to move back here! So, tomorrow, we will make the move to Naganuma. Kenji and his dad went there today to take a load of things, some of our stuff and more things that we have received from generous family and friends and their friends! This past weekend, Kenji`s younger sister Sayoko was here with her two girls, Hikari and Nanami. All the kids had a good time playing, the boys seem to be slightly calmer now that they are getting used to things. Of course, they`ll be changing again! We are supposed to sit down with the Epps at the farm and talk about expectations, theirs and ours when we get there. And I have to start grocery shopping and actually cooking whole meals again:).A little nervous about how things all work out, but I`m sure they will. Kenji`s dad will stay with us most of the week helping to fix things up on the house. Very thankful for that, it will be a huge help. So far our times at the farm have included meals around a big walnut table, the boys playing with the Epps 3 boys, and trips to the chicken house to see the noisy chickens and ducks. Lots of mud and still lots of snow. We ate potatoes and Japanese winter squash(kabocha) that they still have from last fall and they are sooooo yummy! Also rice from their fields, not completely white, but not fully brown, really yummy too. And bread made from wheat grown there and freshly milled in their new flour mill. Eggs and pudding made from their eggs. MOm, we got 4 out of 5 of our boxes of books so far, and no computer that I know of yet, maybe they got there since last week. We hope it comes soon. We need to set up our phone line and see about setting up wireless internet when we get our computer. If you want our address and phone number , please email me. I`ll mail it back to you.