The times of me being reckless and not caring about measuring the body temperature of a sick child are gone. Long ago, I used to rely on my gut feeling about it. I prefer to control a situation now. Besides, I want to be able to tell the doctor how exactly the illness developed.

Marge was ill for the past two weeks, her temperature was going up and down all by itself, and I just couldn’t keep everything in my head. So I drew myself this handy template to fill and it actually helped me a lot when we had a doctor appointment. And having a true picture of what is happening helps not to panic beforehand.

As you probably already know, Anastasia celebrated her 8th birthday recently. Making birthday party invitations by ourselves has already become a tradition in our house. We try to think of a different way to do it every time, as Anastasia’s writing skill evolves. This activity always involved a lot of drawing, cutting, glueing, designing and writing. But this time I drew the templates on the computer and Anastasia had to cut and glue them together, so as write her friends names in.

First of all, I’m sorry to interrupt my 365 serries, that I always post on Sundays. Don’t worry, the project still goes on, and the post about the past week has in fact already been written. I just decided to postpone it till Monday as I have something greater to share for today!