It has been a big two weeks, but despite this, we are all remarkably chill. Easter was this past weekend, but in Jeff's own words, he "singlehandedly ruined Easter". On Saturday morning I bought hot cross buns from the bakery, and I picked up a loaf of traditional sourdough bread, which I never do. That night we had pasta, and I had the brilliant idea of asking Jeff to make garlic bread for us with the sourdough. Unbeknownst to me, he gave Carmie a slice. To his credit, the sourdough loaf did look exactly like one of Carmie's gluten free loaves of bread. But anyway, Carmie ate it for dinner, and we were none the wiser until around 8:30 pm when she started vomiting. The poor thing. She was violently vomiting for the next two hours, and then when it seemed like there was nothing left, I went to bed. When I woke up the next morning (Easter morning!) I discovered that poor Carms had been awake all night, throwing up on and off, and she couldn't get out of bed. We cancelled our morning tea with Lolo and Dida as well as our Easter egg hunt, and poor Carmie spent the next two days in bed. She was physically sick until Monday morning, and then was only able to get some food and drink in by Tuesday morning. Arley was surprisingly patient about us having to postpone the egg hunt until Carmie was able to participate. So, Easter was a bust! Carmie is almost fully better as of today, but she still isn't eating much.
We had a paediatrician appointment for both kids on Tuesday morning. We had known it was coming, and knew we had to get blood tests done on the kids. We have never successfully gotten Arley's blood drawn except for under gas at the hospital, but they have closed that unit now, so we were fully prepped to go into a regular clinic. I put the numbing cream on both the kids, and myself as well, as I had opted to get my blood drawn with them in solidarity (and to demonstrate to Arley how it is done). Clint met us down at the clinic, and I got my blood drawn first, then Carmie (it took about 10 minutes to get her calm), and then it was Arley's turn. The drama! Oh my goodness, it was awful. It took 45 minutes to just get him into the chair (all the while there were people waiting and listening in the next room!). There were many tears, lots of shouting, lots of begging and bribing, and then finally Clint just picked him up and sat him in the chair with me. I wrapped one leg over his legs, arm around his shoulders, hand shielding his eyes, then Clint had to pin him at the shoulder and at the wrist while two nurses took his bloods. It was not fun!! My heart broke for him. He was terrified, poor bugger. Afterwards Clint and I took the kids to McDonalds - it was one of the bribes I had made to get Arley into the chair. Another one was that the kids could have unlimited screens until after Easter. And then of course, Easter was postponed because of Carmie getting glutened...and now we have a three day long weekend ahead of us, so it looks like we will get back on track on Monday!
Other than those two big events, things have been fairly smooth sailing, I think mostly because of the unlimited screen time. LOL. I've been doing a little art work, getting some exercise in, and started a short painting course. Jeffrey is still doing well at work, with three new sign ups this week, and three trial lessons already scheduled for next week. The cooler weather is here, which is quite a nice change, and I've been able to get the kids going for a short walk with me in the mornings (separately - I have to do two walks!). We had to cancel a few appointments over Easter, but the kids still saw Clint on Wednesday morning, for a bit of fishing off Chambers Island. We are hoping to have a chill long weekend and start back full throttle on Monday. Fingers crossed!
