100 degree difference

Yesterday I told Noah that being apart from him is not one of my strengths.  We've been apart for a week or more for a few times now and I thought this time I was really prepared for it.  I had a lot of advantages in my corner.  I was staying with my parents for the week, I had worked ahead on my work responsibilities and had some fun activities planned.  Plus we could video chat with Noah while he was gone teaching in Belize.

Then Eliana woke up in the middle of the night with the flu.  

And then I woke up with a terrible head cold.

And then my dad got sick.

And then my mom.

So all those activities and my to do list, well, let's just say plans changed.  I found myself standing in the medicine aisle of Walmart trying to concentrate on what medication each person in the house needed me to bring back.  I felt like I was in one of those commercials where the customer is extremely confused by all the different choices of symptom relievers to choose from.  

We did survive.  Even through the polar vortex.  Even with Belize experiencing a "cold front" it was still 100 degrees warmer there than it was for us in Northern Wisconsin.  

Now on to another thing I'm not too great at.  Transitions.  

Our time at YWAM Madison is coming to an end.  Friday marks the last day of the BSN lecture phase that Noah is staffing.  Our family will pack up and head to Minneapolis/St. Paul to visit some friends and family until our flight to Colorado on Monday.  There we get to hang out with more family and friends for a few weeks before heading back down to Belize in February.