Eczema, Bruises, and Prom, Oh My!

Our week was absolutely hijacked by medical needs and working with our new insurance.  

The learning curve is real.

I'm not going post pictures or tell the whole story, but it was hard work.

(One day reduced me to tears.)

Baymax had an eczema flare-up that was so bad he actually said, "If I have to live like this, I don't want to live."  He couldn't sleep; he couldn't eat; he couldn't function.  

I found him in bed one morning, body lifted off the mattress because he was arched so tightly in pain, tears falling back into his pillow.

How grateful I am that we have medicines that give him relief.  He's healing nicely now, and he's glad to be alive--as any 10-year-old child should be.

Then Ladybug was doing gymnastics in the church gym, and she fell . . . hard on her right arm.

She was in so much pain, and her arm was so swollen that I suspected it was broken.  I splinted it overnight and gave her pain meds.  In the morning we got x-rays at urgent care and found out that it is not broken, but it is severely bruised.  

3 days later, she's still asking for pain meds because of how badly it aches.

Because I was gone so often, we only went running/walking on Monday.  We are all looking forward to getting back to the park and working our bodies!

The teens covered Morning Meeting while I was gone, so we kept that routine firmly in place.

The teens and I covered WWII, and they have both read extensively about that period of history, so instead of taking it lesson-by-lesson, we gathered up and just read through the 4 chapters in 2 days, stopping to talk about what was interesting, but not taking notes or researching stories/people any further than the text explained.

(It's less than 2 weeks to Nature Angel's graduation!  It feels both perfectly right and astonishing at the same time.)

The younger kids and I are still reading The Black Arrow and The Wind in the Willows.  We finished Edith Cavell: Nurse, Spy, Heroine and started two more books about WWI--Bitter Victory: A History of Black Soldiers in WWI and Over There! Stories of World War I.  I've stopped reading The Golden Treasury of Natural History for now.  I think we'll pick it back up in August when we start a new school year.

No one finished math this week, but I think there might be one or two finishing in the week to come.

Church prom was last week, but this week was one of the local high school proms.  A bunch of church youth, wanting to avoid the potentially less-than-moral environment of their school prom, organized an anti-prom.  They still got dates; they still dressed up; they still danced.  They just did it all on their own terms.


Nature Angel and Little Princess were both invited to this event.



Nature Angel had to work until 3:00, so she missed the sand volleyball tournament they organized for the morning, but she joined the group in time to get ready with the other girls and join their dates for pictures, dinner, and all the rest.  There were 19 of them all together (one girl didn't have a date, but she was not left out of anything), and they had a blast!


Their server at the restaurant told them, "In all my years working here, you have been the most respectful prom group I've ever seen." 🥰🥰🥰

After dinner, they arrived en masse at another friend's graduation party (different school), and after they celebrated her, they went to the home of the teen who organized the whole day and had their own dance.  My girls were delighted to have had as much fun at this mini-dance as they ever could have had at a big dance.
 
That brings us to the new week.  We have an in-person psych appointment with labs, but I hope otherwise to have a good week of running/park play and school with the kids.

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  1. We just finished (re)reading Wind in the Willows over here. Then we watched a more recent Masterpiece Theater version available on Kanopy with our library card which had everyone laughing out loud. And now, references to The Wind in the Willows keep coming up in other books I'm reading ;-) I'm still reading every word you write here even if I'm not commenting as much. Keep up the amazing work with your beautiful family.

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  2. What a lovely anti prom. It looks like everyone had fun. I hope this week is peaceful without crazy medical problems.
    Blessings, Dawn

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