NO MORE PUKE!!! HOORAH!!!

These last few weeks have been insane! Firstly we had Dave away - leaving me for sunnier skies, whilst i held down the fort. We then ventured to the waterpark and upon our return from there, everyone came down with a sickness bug (or stomach flu as they call it here..)
It feels like an age since i sat and just had five minutes to myself!

The waterpark was really good. It was so busy to begin with, but eventually all the people that just came for the day left, and the boys (including Dave) managed to get on some slides without queuing for too long.
We went with our neighbours which was lovely, it seemed less chaotic with them there and meant we could just leave the boys to it.
Once we returned, the first person to come down with the sickness was Finlay. He had it for a good old five days. It didn't disappear properly until this last Monday though. It was really hard to not panic and trust that we were doing everything right. Ollie came down with it at the end of last week and got over it pretty quick. But i have never been surrounded by so much puke or washing! We are still catching up now, (all clean of course) but it's taunting me to be put away. I figured if i leave it long enough, it will be reused and someone else will do it.. hmm.. maybe not!

So Lucas came home announcing that he has been reading a book at school that he ACTUALLY liked. It concerned me a little and scared me because  it is a series for kids based on real life events. The titles are "I survived.. " now there are a few titles but the one he's reading is "i survived the twin towers" So i asked him to tell me about it, and he described how many people died, and what happened. But he didn't know why it happened. My heart was in my mouth as he was telling me. How do i wake him up to that kind of world? Without scaring him. We have always done our best to protect him, or maybe even hide him.. from the current events in the world, but when he comes in telling us about it. It's a whole new level of parenthood. We did our best to explain, and i didn't want to go into more detail. I asked him to read the book and come to me afterwards.. i'm hoping it will wash over him and he will go onto another book and not think too much about it.. but Lucas is a worrier! Will have to wait and see!

We are FIVE days away from being out here a year!!!!!! It has gone soooooo quickly, and life has been soo busy that i barely feel like i have touched the ground.
Our family have been amazing through it and we are so lucky that we have gotten to see them inbetween. I couldn't be more prouder of the boys, i was so scared about the adjustment.. (mainly for them) but they have proved me wrong. They have taken to it better than i have, that is for sure.

Life is carrying on as normal, now the puke is out the way, we can continue on! The clocks change this weekend so we are really starting to hope for spring.. the snow is still on the ground but the temperatures are starting to warm up.. it may even get above 0c this week!!!!

Anyway, much love.
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