May 8th, 2016…Happy Mother’s Day!
Its Sunday evening and the house is quiet. After getting the boys ready for bed…PJ’s, teeth brushing, reading, singing, praying and goodnight kisses…I left them to hear their next chapter of the Hardy Boys. Hubby started reading them the series about a month ago and they REALLY like it! They are currently in Book Three.
My heart is full from the wonderful day we spent together as a family. Hubby served me in countless ways. We went to church this morning, a place we now look forward to going to each week. We left encouraged, challenged and more connected. Our pastor asked all the kids to pass out flowers to the women in the church. I appreciated that he didn’t just single out the mothers but acknowledged all the women. Because of my own personal journey to motherhood, its good to remember how so many women “mother” even if they don’t have children.
We spent the afternoon at the Dino Park. The weather was AMAZING and the atmosphere was perfect. The park was full of families enjoying each other, the sunshine and the beauty of our surroundings. Our friend, Liz, joined us with her daughter. Several hours slipped by while we chatted, ate, laid on blankets in the grass and watched the kids play in the stream. I’m so grateful that our boys enjoy the outdoors!
Here’s a picture of our friends. They arrived in Germany a couple of days before we did. I’m grateful for the opportunity to get to know them and share this cultural experience together.
The Dino Park has quickly become one of our FAVORITE places! I think we have already paid off our Season Pass with the amount of visits we have made thus far. Last weekend, the park hosted a Medieval Festival. We took the boys and easily spent a couple of hours walking around, playing, eating, watching a show and enjoying being outside.
SPRING is HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We enjoyed a WEEK full of sunshine, blue skies, warmer temperatures and flowers in bloom…with only one rainy day tossed in for good measure! S and I took a wonderful walk one day admiring all the different signs of Spring. Yippee!!!
On Tuesday, I dropped S off at Hubby’s work for a father/son lunch date so I could join E for a mother/son lunch date at his school. I sat with him and his classmates and got bombarded by questions ranging from “Why does E like pickles so much?” to “Why do you have grey hair?” (Because I’m a parent!) Afterwards, I joined the kids for recess and played a massive game of Hide-and-Go-Seek Tag. I may have some grey hair but I can still play a fantastic game of tag. Ha! SUPER FUN!
E marched in his school’s Storybook Character Parade on Thursday for National Book Week. He wore his astronaut costume (that still fits after two years!) since HE had just read to ME a book about astronauts walking on the moon. We are so proud of the growth he has made the past few months in his reading skills!
His fun teacher dressed up as Fancy Nancy. Love her!
Though the weather was BEAUTIFUL this week, we ended up spending a couple of days inside while lil S fought off a virus of some sort. It seemed to start off as allergies, but then a fever came. After two rough nights, fever, lack of appetite, lethargy, some vomiting and tummy pain, I called the doctor’s office and described his symptoms. They advised me to go to the ER (our first visit thus far). We were all concerned because his stomach pain was mimicking aspects of appendicitis. Ugh…
The ER doctor thought he heard some rattling in his lungs which led to a chest x-ray, an abdominal ultra sound and a six hour ER visit. I was so grateful when he started perking up in the hospital. THANKFULLY, his tests came back clear, the diagnosis was a virus, and we were sent home with a prescription of ibuprofen to alternate with the Tylenol he had been taking.
He went from this…
to balancing the empty, barf bag on his head…a definite sign that things were looking up! He still has a lingering cough but is VASTLY improved and back to his fun, sweet and spirited self!
Wether we were inside or out, we ALL managed to relish the warmth of the sun’s rays…even our crazy cat, Adi!
Happy Spring from Germany!
~Tschüss!
