Flu in the family

The whole Liechti family experienced flu this week!!!! Gerard suffered with flu at the beginning of the week which was passed on to Lara who was actually quite sick for 2 days with temps and bad cough. Steven has been coughing on and off but seems to have beaten the bug.
Robert and Steven decided to walk to Gerard's office, from school on Tuesday, which caused quite a ruckus. I received a call from Stevie's teacher first and then from Robert's within 5 minutes of each other. They were very concerned that they had not caught the bus as usual. I was on my way out the door to find them, when in drove Gerard with all his children in the car. He had picked up Lara and seen the two boys headed for Bell. He explained to to the head master that this would not happen again and that the boys would be sternly dealt with. Lara went to dancing in the afternoon and she has now joined the dance group. She really loves going and I think it all helps in coordination.
Steven went to a class mate's birthday party on Wednesday afternoon, where all the children played soccer. Nothing will stop him from playing his beloved soccer!!! Not long before he sees the doctor thank goodness!!!.
On Thursday, Heidi invited Marcelle and I for tea. It was so nice to get out and spend a morning with friends, and also consume Heidi's wonderful cakes. After a snap decision, the three of us decided to pay a visit to some newcomers in Alsfeld. There had been an article in the local paper that one of the hotels in town had been bought by a young couple. He is German and she is a South African from Cape Town with 2 little boys. Unfortunately she was not there but we introduced ourselves to him and said we would be back to meet her another day. We did learn however, that she has been in Germany for 4 years already and has done an intensive German course, so she has become very "Germanised".
On Thursday, we celebrated Urshi's birthday with their family as usual. We are always invited to join her and her family for a sit down meal which is always top class. While I ate, Gerard went off to Robert's parents evening! This was being held in Eudorf at a hotel.
Robert had been to soccer training and had asked one of the other mother's to drop him off in Eudorf!!! Gerard had in the meantime gone to pick him up, to find no one at the sport hall. Talk about a run around and lack of communication!!!
Robert was complaining of a head ache (he put this down to too many headers made during his soccer game) and feeling sick but managed to polish off a good plate of food. The Liechti family left at about 9.15pm just as the choir arrived to sing to the birthday girl!!!
I did not let Robert go to school on Friday as he was still running a temp and was feeling really miserable. I managed to sleep away 2 hours of Friday morning, in an attempt to sleep off my head cold which had been around since Wednesday.
Lara had her lantern evening on Friday night, so Gerard, Stevie and Lara went off with their lanterns - leaving Robbie and I at home alone. We weren't actually alone, as we had Arno (our building man) and his electrician were here. They were completing a job they had started in May this year. They were connecting the heating up in Robert's "new" room.
We had a nice sleep in on Saturday morning and later in the afternoon, Arno arrived to finish another small job he had started in May.
Gerard also decided that Saturday was the day he would drain the pool.
We watched X-factor on Saturday night which is getting really exciting again, as every week, one singer gets voted off, and they are down to the last 7 acts which means it is getting tougher and tougher.
Sunday morning was another lie in. Had a late breakfast, and then Gerard and I decided to do some unfinished business in the garden. Gerard covered my strawberry patch with some evergreen tree branches (keep the snow off the plants) while I cut off all the dead hydrangea flowers. Gerard also tackled a rose bush outside my kitchen window and some other plants in the garden.
We all sat down to a roast lamb and veges at about 5.30pm which was a great end to our weekend.
Gerard had managed to knock at least 8 items off his to-do list(which I had drawn up for him) of 15 items. All in all, a rather productive end to our week!!