whelp. camp didn’t start the way i expected it. at all. the week before was simply brutal for all of us. our usa team arrived thursday…the day mercy started acting weird and spiked a {random?} fever. pretty soon it was sunday and every time her pain meds would wear off, she would have a fever again. i blend a lot of natural medicine with western medical knowledge…so by sunday afternoon when i realized she was acting delirious and listless we decided to give her tylenol AND motrin to bring down her temp. thirty minutes later when it was still over 40 deg C (over 104 F), we knew it was time to go to the urgent care.
there really is a first time for every thing.
sigh.
since christian was teaching the lesson each day {something he loves!} it only made sense that i was the one to stay home with her. but in completely honesty, i was more than a little frustrated. all summer works towards camp.
it really was just two and a half days but it ended up being a super sweet time with my baby girl. it started chaotic…a rushed monday morning with christian and addy barely leaving in time:
but after a good kitchen cleaning…{please not mer’s little medical corner on the right}
i tackled cleaning/organizing the girls’ art studio/school area.
we started like this:
worked up to this:
and finally made it to this {please note sunglasses hiding yucky looking eye…just another symptom of multiply infections running their course}
we got up bright and early wednesday morning, fever free…and made it on the half price {fără loc, aka southwest version} train to buzău.
sarah and ana picked us up there since they were making a town run to the grocery store. yay, because then we didn’t have to take a maxi-taxi to ojasca! we also found a pet store in the mall selling squirrels. SQUIRRELS. if i had been in bucharest, i would have bought one. and christian would have been shocked. but not TOO shocked, because he is pretty used to my impulse animal purchases at this point.
addy was doing GREAT except very, very sleep deprived. so the first thing i did was pull the mama card and get my bigger girl to take a nap. sometimes you just need mama.
mer did great although the first morning she slept until…uhhh…afternoon!
and they both made a few new friends.
we ended the week by taking the kids to the mud volcanos.
it was an exhausting, up and down couple of weeks…but it was GOOD and we were BLESSED!
