Had a little party at home last night with Peter and Mary for my birthday. A day early, but considering I'm on a plane to New Plymouth at the moment it was better to have it a day early than sulk by myself in my motel room tonight. The kids helped me unwrap my presents and by helped I mean basically took over the job. Beth especially couldn't understand why she wasn't allowed to unwrap all the presents until I asked her if it's OK for me to unwrap all hers when it's her birthday. That seemed to cement the idea in her brain, at least a little bit.
I got some really cool presents, the neatest of which is a pair of googles that are my glasses prescription. So when I put them on I can see really clearly with my glasses off. They're quite amazing really, I can't get over how clear they make everything. Sarah ordered them from AliExpress. Very cool. And I got a new wallet because my current one is on its very last legs.
The sickness continues. Sarah is very crook at the moment, not at all helped by her husband running off to New Plymouth for the night. Beth woke up in the night screaming, I gave her some Pamol to help het get back to sleep. I had to take her too the A&E on Sunday night because she was complaining about a sore ear. Turns out she has a mild ear infection. The Dr suggested that we hold off on the antibiotics which I'm fine with, so she's just got painkillers. And of course Sarah got what seems like a freaking daily call these days from Kindy to say that Beth has got conjunctivitis and had to come home. Poor Sarah, we haven't had a normal week at Kindy since we got back from Bali. And that was months ago.
Plus I still have this cold hanging around. Only Theo seems to be OK and even he last night seemed to be very hot. But he slept like the little trooper that he is, so hopefully when they wake up today they're both OK.
So yeah, Happy Birthday to me. My family is sick, and I'm leaving them behind because I've got to attend work in NP. Boo Hiss.
Tim
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