Our landlord came over on Sunday, bearing gifts for the kids...so now the gifts are under the tree and it must be about 100 times a day I am asked when can they open them...and why can't they open them now......pure torture!
The weather here, as I type this is 15 degrees Celsius!!! Freezing...well, for me anyway...I don't do the cold very well....I can't wait for summer to be here again!
On Saturday we had to take Asia-Faith to the hospital...she tripped and hit her head on the corner of the wall where the tiles meet and it made like a puncture on her forehead...there was a lot of blood, typical of a head wound, and when we cleaned it up you could see a definite hole, so we decided to take her to the hospital to have it checked out in case she needed a stitch...instead after waiting for our turn (you have to take a number and wait)...the doctor took a look and put another plaster on and told us to come back on Monday (NT$ 230 later!)...
So Monday we take her back...bear in mind I don't drive, so now we have to take a train into town...which only takes about 7 minutes, and then walk to the hospital...which is not far from the train station...along the way there are all sorts of little "hole in the wall" shops...and a few pet shops with beautiful little puppies and kittens (all with rather large price tags!)....that I am very tempted to take home with us...but then come to my senses and continue walking on....
We then get to the hospital...take a number and wait again...to have the doctor take off the plaster and put on a new one (the hole still doesn't look like it is closing to me...), and then tells me to bring her back on Saturday again! (another NT$ 230 later...)
Since we are already in town, we decide we will head to "Jason's"...it is a supermarket, with a lot of imported foods....anyway....we have to catch a shuttle bus from the one shopping mall to the other where Jason's is located...the kids loved this as the bus driver was all decked out in a Father Christmas outfit, the bus was decorated, and Christmas music was playing....So we get to Jason's and of course our first order of business is to find the salt and vinegar chips...after all that is the main reason we go to Jason's...it is the ONLY place we find salt and vinegar chips!!! Next thing Willow-River finds some bovril...he is so excited...so I buy him a bottle....then I decide to look for some baking powder, because our local supermarket stocks every kind of flour you can imagine...but alas...no baking powder!!! I finally find some and then am asked by Talis-Rain if we can buy a chocolate cake mix...I think why not?...I figure it can't be too difficult except that I don't have a cake tin! I read the back of the box and it says you can make them into cupcakes too....and then what do I see in front of me....those little cup cake cups! Problem solved...so we grab some of those too, and I decide it is time for us to get out of this shop! What started out as just a stop for some salt and vinegar chips, has turned into a lot more...
We finally head on back to the train station....I buy the tickets (and note the time...5:22pm)...I buy our tickets and ask the teller what time our train is...5:27pm she tells me...right...I have less than 5 minutes to get myself and 4 kids across to platform 2! So up Asia-Faith goes under my arm and we run off like the wind...we get to platform 2 and within about a minute the train arrives....whew! Then when we get to our little town...we still have about a 10 minute walk to go till we get home....but we survive...even though it was freezing cold...and the Jason's paper bag carring our loot tore so I ended up having to put all our goodies into my handbag...lol...but we made it home and then of course it was zoo time, and I had to whip up a dinner...mac'n cheese with salad....by the time it was ready to be eaten, daddy arrived home, so it was good timing!
Kitty has recovered very well....her hearing and balance all seem to be back to normal! I am so relieved...for a few days there I thought we were going to lose her...I remember sitting next to her and just sobbing my heart out thinking she was leaving us...but her time isn't up yet I am happy to say...she still has a few lives left thank goodness!
We now have a table tennis table! Last week a lady who was leaving the complex called the boys and told them to ask me if I wanted to take it...what a question! Of course we did...so we now have it in the top floor...it is great...
The kids have been nagging to take them to the zoo...so we finally gave in and took them there last Saturday (after going to the hospital)....Jason and I aren't crazy about animals being kept caged...but we took the kids and they absolutely loved seeing the animals...can you believe they even had tigers, a hippo and bears! Very sad....anyway...the kids loved it and they had a ball running around there....then they had to endure grocery shopping...but they know at the end of it on the way out we have to pass the ice-cream lady...so they don't whine too much about the shopping 'cos they know what is coming on the way out! LOL
~* Peace and Love *~
Daddy and his fairy princess...
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