Catching Up on News

The weeks are just flying by and we are right near the end of March already. Now to catch up on the last two weeks of my life.
On Monday 12th Gerard flew to France to a Euro council meeting. He only spent one evening away and was back at 9.00pm on Tuesday night.
He then had a meeting with Russian people in Eisenach and had a management meeting the following day in Eisenach so he decided to spend the night up there.
I went to Heidi on that day to do gym and the only exercise we did was exercise our tongues and drink Heidi’s milk coffee. It was just nice to catch up as I haven’t seen much of Heidi due to her teaching programme.
On Thursday, Lara went to Zina’s and when I went to fetch her, they had arranged to do the light athletics outside. I got there just in time to see Lara running around the track. I was absolutely amazed to see her keep going, while all the others would stop and walk for a bit.
Gerard had three days leave due to him and if he did not take them by the end of March, we would lose them. So on Friday it was great to wake up and have him with me for the day. He took Lara off to Kindergarten and came back and took me off to Romrod for breakfast. Unfortunately, the café there was closed, so we ended up coming back to Alsfeld and having breakfast in Café Rahn.
A bit later in the day, he had promised to do some DIY around the house and he dutifully got onto the roof and cleaned moss off the tiles and cleaned out gutters. What a job!!!
We had had wonderful weather this whole week – really felt like Spring.
We had a nice sleep in on Saturday morning. After a late breakfast, we went off to the boys old Kindergarten where they had a flea market. I managed to get a couple of things there. We went onto AEZ to do grocery shopping and landed up ordering a sweeping machine for me. Something I have always wanted.!!!!
Gerard and I promised to take the kids to the pool on Sunday. We went to the wave pool in Lauterbach as the kids love it so much. We only left home at about 1.30pm. It was the fullest we had ever seen it – every other parent must have had the same idea . The children however had stacks of fun and spent the whole afternoon in the pool and on the supertube.
On Monday, we headed of for Giesen. We had an appointment at the Kinderklinik for Steven. This was for his blood pressure to be checked out. I had packed his bag in case of him having to stay overnight. Lara came with us as we had no idea how long this would all take, and Robert had a key for the front door for after school.
On arriving at the hospital, we were told to go to the Poliklinik and to find this we had to follow the green strip on the floor. We seemed to walk for ages and then arrived a queue that stretched out the doors of the Poliklinik. We waited for ever, only for the receptionist to tell us that she had no record of Steven’s appointment. She sent us upstairs to another ward, where they in turn, did the same thing. Eventually, we got to see a doctor who asked the necessary questions and proceeds to take Steven’s blood. Three puncture wounds on both arms later, and one very tearful little boy, we were sent off to the X-ray department. There, they do a sonar on his kidneys which lasted about ¾ of an hour. To our horror, they have found that Steven has one kidney that is much smaller than the normal kidney. But the more serious problem is the artery entering the kidney – this apparently is too narrow. They feel that this could very well be the underlying cause of his high blood pressure. They are now going to do an Angiogram on 30th March and assess what needs to be done.
On Gerard’s last day of leave, he took me to the Chinese restaurant for lunch where we had a really nice meal. Lara went to Halligalli in the afternoon as it was Jana’s (a little girl from Kindergarten) birthday.
On Wednesday morning, we woke up and it started to snow. It wasn’t long before everything was covered white and everything looked so pretty. It didn’t last long though and it was all melted.
The next day, we woke up to even more snow than the previous day. I went into town and bought Lisa’s birthday present of a book and pony. Found Lara a nice Ballet bag which she can use for light athletics as well. Managed to find myself a nice handbag at the same time.
That afternoon, I took Lara and Zina off to Light athletics which was held indoors. For the first time, I had to contend with someone else’s child who did not want to participate. Did not know quite how to handle the situation. Eventually Lara started to cry because her friend wasn’t with her and Zina relented.
On Friday I collected the necessary referral form from Dr Becker’s rooms for the hospital. I called in at Bell to see Gerard but he was in a meeting. Posted the one referral form to the Poliklinik. We watched American Idols and were stunned to see who was voted off.
On Saturday, Lara’s kindergarten had an open day. We went at about 3.00pm which was an hour before it finished. Gerard and I sat and drank coffee and ate cake while she played with her friends. That really made her day so I was pleased that we had made the effort. We then did a bit of grocery shopping and got some McDonalds take aways for supper. Robert was staying over at Alex. I went a fetched Heidi and brought her over for the evening. She seemed to quite enjoy the Dancing on Ice Gala show.
Gerard flew off to England on Sunday morning. I then had the joys of taking Steven to a soccer tournament and then Robert had his tournament in the afternoon. My whole day was consumed by football once again!!!! Even though both boy’s team’s lost all their games, all the children were awarded with trophies. That just made their day!!!!