Carly and Alex are back tomorrow after over 2 weeks of school holidays, but Wednesday they'll be having the day off to attend their great-grandmother's funeral service.
I've seen very little of Alex during the break. He's up early and off on his scooter or bike, and comes home when he's hungry, then gone again. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be a 13-year-old who's biggest worry is being allowed to have friends sleep over. Carly is home more often, and has had friends stay every other night, but she also helps to keep the house tidy and that's usually cleaning up after Alex.
Mum dropped around today and she's in much better spirits. We talked about the funeral arrangements, who would drive who, and what we needed to do afterwards for the wake. It will be held at Warren and Julie's house and we'll organise the food and drink beforehand.
Little Riley has been very sick too. He spent Friday and Saturday nights in hospital, with Lauren sleeping in the chair next to his cot. He has a bacterial infection in his chest. When I looked after him last weekend I told Lauren he was very rattly in the chest, but her doctor wasn't too concerned and kept telling her to give him pain relief. She took him to a different doctor on Friday afternoon who sent them both straight to the hospital. We called in yesterday to see them, and Riley is very pale but as usual he had big smiles for everyone. Even when he's sick he's still a calm, quiet child. After this course of antibiotics we'll probably see him thrive. I hope so, anyway.
Emily has only 4 1/2 weeks left and 2 more weeks of work. Then we'll have grandchild number 4. She's organised a birthday party for Scarlett next Saturday at Noah's Ark in Wagga with lots of other little 1-year-olds. Alex is rapt, he loves Noah's Ark, and is already talking about taking Zeke on the big slides. Football is in Junee next weekend so we should get there on time.
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