Calvin’s reflections - errands

     In the time that we have been staying in Osaka, I have gone to lots of places by myself mostly shops but sometimes just to walk around. I have gone to the closest Family Mart to get things like milk, cereal, rice balls, and a lot of other stuff. Today I went with Chance to the Family Mart to get a snack he wanted but the first store only had the chocolate kind so we went to the other one across the street but that one didn't even have any kind of it so we went to another store that was just a little bit farther down and they had it and Chance said “uuuuuud finally!” (his way of saying Ugh).  When we got back and ate the snacks Cooper and Colson came in and we all decided to go to the Gacha machines so we went to the place where there are about 1,000 of them and got some fidget spinners and a Luigi and a question mark block from Mario.

This is one of my favorite things about being here — the opportunity for the boys to do some solo missions. I started assigning errands as part of their schoolwork for the week, and even Colson (7) can go to the nearest konbini by himself!