Double trouble

Poor Lucy this time (remember "poor Daddy" from his trip to America?). Last week she started running a fever for three days. Once or twice she did say "ear hurt" but then went on playing and did not seem too serious.  Her fever went away over last weekend (over a week ago now) but last Monday she felt warm again and fell asleep at 10 am in the middle of a loud living room. So I took her in to the last appointment of the day to find out she had a double ear infection and her left drum had perforated! (Don't worry, it sounds awful but is not uncommon for ear infections). A week on antibiotics and she finally seems back to herself. But she was rather pitiful for awhile, not sleeping well, super tired and wanting to be held a LOT of the day. I feel so bad we didn't go in earlier to the doctor...but sometimes you just don't know. Note to self- she must have a high pain tolerance and if she ever says "___ hurt" pay attention! Her last dose of medicine will be Thanksgiving Day. I am thankful for good doctors and good medicine available to me here.

Chris had a busy weekend putting on our fifth year of The Gift- charity bazaar (with live music performances all day he was in charge of). The kids had a great time dancing while Daddy performed. Pictures of that to come hopefully from a friend in a few days. Meanwhile this week is still full of a little homeschool, Chinese school (except Thursday of course), cooking and baking and oh- please do pray. Saturday night Chris was using his computer, closed it, remembered one more email he needed to send, opened it...and it was black. Fully charged and it will chime when he turns it on but nothing more. Only a year a half old Macbook Air and it is very central to work and life. We will take it to the Apple store here tomorrow (again, thankful we live in a place with one) but afraid it could be a really bad problem. Pray he won't lose any data either- he had not backed up files very recently. Sigh- such is life but not what we wanted to see right now. However I do feel like this week I am looking, sometimes straining and sometimes it is so easy to see- how blessed we are and how gratitude to our Heavenly Father changes almost any situation. I pray I will be able to keep gratitude in my perspective.