Kangaroos

Nathan and Zachary have always been jealous that our family visited Australia before they were born. They ask if we can go on another family vacation there. What they don't understand is that the only reason we were able to go to Australia is because we lived so close when we were stationed in Guam. It was only a four-hour flight. We could never afford to take all 6 of us back there from the mainland.

But in an effort to get Zach to behave, we told him a couple years ago that if he could go a whole year without screaming or yelling, we would take the whole family back to Australia. We were pretty confident that he wouldn't be able to go a whole year. But since I have gotten better with disciplining him, he has been doing pretty well. In fact, I don't think he has yelled or screamed for almost a week now. Last night at dinner I was telling him how well he was doing and how proud I was of him. Nathan quickly chimed in, "So we get to go see the kangaroos now!"

Fortunately for us, he has 51 more weeks to go! We may need a few more years to save up for that vacation, but it would be worth it. We loved our week in Cairns.