whew!

After the weekend we just had, it's taken us a few days to recouperate. On Saturday morning, we started with a trip to the Doctor's for Luc, who confirmed that he had chicken pox. I know it's a pretty mild thing, but seeing him covered with these little buttons made my heart swell. Plus he was saying "itchy" all the time. He even had them inside his mouth!

the number of pox on him doubled after this

That night we attended our friends' wedding, who were some of the first people we became friends with just after moving here. It was a huge crazy dance fest that probably went on all night, but we were spent after dinner and left before the cake was cut. It was almost 2am by that point.  We also had to drive around a quarter of the island to get back home. I really wish we could've stayed longer, but our stamina was just gone!

unfortunately, we forgot our camara this night and also dashed the plans I had for getting a good family pic!

There were plenty of kids for Luc to play with and lots of space to run around. We warned everyone that he was contagious and most parents were OK with it. They've got to get chicken pox at one point, right? (ps: no concern for pregnant women who've already had it, so I'm good!)

We were also hit with the type of news you never expect to get, and worried our way through until the final (thankfully, showing good news) test results were in. Things can feel so off in those times, where you realise all your plans big and small for the future are affected, and you can't shake it off. You feel lost and unable to think about the future, because it is so scary and unknown. I can't seem to put into words exactly the feelings we had the past few days, but I'm glad they're over with. Things can go back to normal, but we won't forget what almost was.

the beautiful orchid Alex got me for our anniversary last week in front of our wedding photo

During that short nightmarish period, it was helpful to have extra long yoga sessions and to melt chocolate into milk for a rich, sweet drink. It's the little things, right?