to admire the little elves handiwork!
Sunday, 9 December 2018
Thursday, 6 December 2018
Eugh....
Feeling more sympathetic towards my children now I'm having a taste of what they've been through. All 3 girls much brighter today, but I've not ventured far from the loo or my bed. M managed to finish early & come home to help...much to my relief. But they have been incredible....working harmoniously all morning painting the salt dough decorations we made yesterday (advent day 5 activity). Normally I'd have a small amount of anxiety as to what the state of the place would be but I haven't felt well enough to care or see. I've just lain here listening to happy voices searching for thread to string them up by, washing up, making more paper chains (advent day 2 activity) and opening today's calendar. They've even been out to the drinks stall over the road to make sure I've been drinking. Hoping the angelic peace will last now dad's home. I just need to find the metronidazole...don't want to put up with this for long...we're heading to peponi tomorrow for the weekend.
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Bodily fluids.....
Inevitably the time has come for the onslaught of one of the worst bits of parenting - clearing up vomit & worse. Poor girls...B felt poorly over the weekend, but no explosions; R incapable of enjoying the pool on Sunday & vomited in the car on the way back to Muheza...made it to school yesterday but fluctuating temps & nausea....L spent all night vomiting etc. The only saving grace being they managed to alternate use of the toilet & bowl...although on that schedule I didn't get much sleep. Today has been a write off with us all lying exhausted on our beds. Slight improvement this evening...so wish me luck for the night ahead.
Hard to recall the other things I wanted to record now I'm in a haze of exhaustion. But yesterday gave me another satisfying outing for visits in the villages. Long drive this week up into the foothills of the Usambara mountains. We passed lots of cocoa trees, with many houses drying sheets of cocoa pods out the front. Lots of pretty 'gardens' amongst the villages and several streams for us to cross, which I imagine may be far more torrents in the wet season. My medical knowledge overstretched this time...need to swot up on a lot of topics. Plenty of things I'm sure I'll never see again in my career.....severe toxoplasmosis infection amongst others. One of the homes insisted on serving us 'lunch'....I am wondering if I am yet to pay the price of this - but as the palliative care nurse and student pharmacist tuck in I felt too rude not to. Firstly they bring a bowl & jug of water to wash our hands. Then we were treated to freshly boiled milk in elegant teacups & a large pile of chapatis. Almost too much for me sitting in a shower of my own sweat as the sun cooked us slowly through the tin roof, and the overwhelming smell of cow from the shed next door.
Cocoa beans drying in the sun
Made it back just in time to see the end of prize day at school - R got a prize for her 3 legged race. Sister G ran out of prizes so the remainder will be handed out on the last day of term - which she has brought forward to tomorrow. Sadly I don't think the girls will be up to it yet tomorrow - they shall miss wishing Merry Christmas to their classmates. Thankfully we managed to squeeze in a class photo with L's class, but R's class we'll have to do after the holidays. I need to decide re B over the holidays, but she really hasn't settled at all at school so we may end up doing more of a combination home schooling after Christmas. They are now off until 9th January so we are busy planning safaris etc
Hard to recall the other things I wanted to record now I'm in a haze of exhaustion. But yesterday gave me another satisfying outing for visits in the villages. Long drive this week up into the foothills of the Usambara mountains. We passed lots of cocoa trees, with many houses drying sheets of cocoa pods out the front. Lots of pretty 'gardens' amongst the villages and several streams for us to cross, which I imagine may be far more torrents in the wet season. My medical knowledge overstretched this time...need to swot up on a lot of topics. Plenty of things I'm sure I'll never see again in my career.....severe toxoplasmosis infection amongst others. One of the homes insisted on serving us 'lunch'....I am wondering if I am yet to pay the price of this - but as the palliative care nurse and student pharmacist tuck in I felt too rude not to. Firstly they bring a bowl & jug of water to wash our hands. Then we were treated to freshly boiled milk in elegant teacups & a large pile of chapatis. Almost too much for me sitting in a shower of my own sweat as the sun cooked us slowly through the tin roof, and the overwhelming smell of cow from the shed next door.
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| Out on visits |
Made it back just in time to see the end of prize day at school - R got a prize for her 3 legged race. Sister G ran out of prizes so the remainder will be handed out on the last day of term - which she has brought forward to tomorrow. Sadly I don't think the girls will be up to it yet tomorrow - they shall miss wishing Merry Christmas to their classmates. Thankfully we managed to squeeze in a class photo with L's class, but R's class we'll have to do after the holidays. I need to decide re B over the holidays, but she really hasn't settled at all at school so we may end up doing more of a combination home schooling after Christmas. They are now off until 9th January so we are busy planning safaris etc
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| Prize giving |
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| L's class |
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| R's teacher Sister I & her Xmas decorations |
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