Yay! The passports are here! And I have to say they are three of the cutest passports I have every seen. Not one of my kids cracked a smile for their photo and Parker looks like he is the grumpiest boy on earth with the biggest bobble head. Madelyn looks sweaty and disheveled and Angelina looks bored to death...my entourage.
I took the children for haircuts yesterday. Parker hates them and I thought I would take advantage of the situation...he is sick. He has stomatitis, which has nothing to do with his stomach. He has blisters in his throat and is highly contagious for 7-10 days. No big deal, except...they won't let him have his vaccinations until this is over...and you can bet it is going to go through each and every member of our family. I already have it. And let me tell you. I am so tired. Poor little Parker. When the tropical storm came through he had a fever...I did the best I could giving him baths and forcing tylenol/motrin down his throat. I didn't know what was wrong with him. All he wanted to do was lay on me or my bed. The good part of that was that he was away from the girls. Unfortunately, today I have been unable to keep them away from him. I can just see what is going to happen...they are both going to come down with it and we will be held over in the US due to not being able to get vaccinations. Uggh...I thought I was being smart by postponing them all until the 15th, but now I see my folly. What was I thinking? They were healthy. Oh, well. I don't have the energy to get it done. After playing Dr. Mom for a few days, I am now the patient and have no one to take care of me....I am so tired.
I will say one thing...somebody is doing everything they can to keep us from going. If it isn't one thing it is another. David's computer crashed, so he can't deal with any of the minor technicalities such as figuring out to what country we will be moving and if we can get the children enrolled in a school. Brilliant. It has begun to seem so much more difficult than it once was and...well, at times not worth it. I spoke to David about that today. He was threatening to e-mail his boss (tee-hee, no computer?) and tell him that if he didn't have some answers and the people who were supposed to be helping didn't stop hindering (and that is a 12 page entry unto itself) that he was going to call it quits and come back to the states. We decided that we had to remember our initial feelings and concentrate on the real answers we got through prayer and going to the temple. All of the rest of this will solve itself as long as we continue to try to do what we know is right.
For now I will continue to tell myself that I will get to spend a few nights in THIS hotel...
and see these views from my balcony:
AH YES! I FEEL CALMER ALREADY!
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