Well, here we are, getting ready for a nice relaxing week in picturesque Paris, right? I feel like I am being ripped into about 48 different directions and I don't know what to do about it. Here is the gist of what's going on.
After much deliberation, Jean-Jacques and I have decided to let Charlotte accompany me and the other two kids on vacation. This would seem like a no-brainer for anyone without teenage children. For those of you with teenagers, you understand. There is behaviour coming from this once very sweet, very reliable, very honest kid, that as a parent, you just cannot accept. You try everything from working with the child, punishing the child, rewarding the child, screaming at the child, even ignoring the child, but after two years and an incalcuable number of promises of change, the behaviour continues. Then what? Well, this is where I am totally at a loss. I am thinking that I need to not include her on the vacation, but that seems a little extreme, and come on, she's not a drug addict or robbing banks. Plus, I am really wary of excluding her and making her feel like a parriah. I mean, if I remember correctly, at 13, you pretty much feel like a geek all the time, so you don't need your parents to add to your pain. I keep hearing the song "love will find a way" in my head. I am sure that somehow, with love, we will all get through this, just in time for Helene to start!
Yes, Helene. You didn't think that she could have an uneventful week, did you? Helene broke her toe. I mean, she broke her toe on January 29th, but being parents who are right on the ball, we finally got her to the pediatrician yesterday and found out that she needed an xray, and now we have discovered a broken toe that requires a visit to the orthopedic specialist! How does that happen? Who needs to go get their toe put in a cast for goodness sakes?
And Luke, after almost two years of no issues, is back on all his asthma medication, I won't even go into how upsetting this is. After calming down though, I realize that I'll do whatever I need to do to keep him from getting sicker and the pediatrician seems to feel that him being on this asthma medication will help prevent him from getting things like the flu.
So, with a no-travel week in front of me, I thought that I could handle getting the laundry done, packing our bags and being prepared for a week out of the office - HAH!!! Well, pray for me. It's Ash Wednesday and I did manage to go to service with my mother - so that's a start. Hopefully I will have only wonderful, peaceful things to write about when I return from my week in parisien paradise...
bisous to all.
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