Sick week and Ferienwoche

A week of the flu with Nathanael halfway overlapping a week of the flu with Eva followed by a week off school.  *sigh*  It has been a long, long, long two weeks.  I had a minor breakdown a few days ago when I stuck Nathanael in front of the computer and finally lay down for a twenty minute nap before needing to pick up Eva from preschool.  I cried a few tears over my exhaustion and then quickly fell asleep, awoke to my alarm, made a quick espresso, and continued on with the week.  I'm better now.  It's Saturday night, and Monday is just around the corner.  It also helps that tomorrow is Sunday, and we have church and then small group afterwards.  It will be a wonderful day, and we will all be exhausted by the awesome fellowship when we fall asleep tomorrow.

A desperate "get me out of the house" moment.  We bundled them up and took them on a wagon ride!  Nathanael cracked me up by asked five times, "Won't people thing we're crazy, Mom?!"  Yes, dear, they will.  But I do not care!

During weeks off school, Vienna has some incredible organizations and businesses that offer activities for kids at low to no cost.  We had planned to take part in six of them this last week.  I had to say no to the last two (after my minor breakdown on Wednesday).  Still, I'd say it was quite a cool week, other than Eva having the flu and visiting the doctor this week, again.

We always register for the events at the Center for Architecture.  Nathanael is really into that kind of thing.  This time the topic was playgrounds, and the kids concluded the time by building their own playground and trying it out.  Every single picture I tried to take is blurry.



Young scientists learning about experiments with fire at Vienna Open Labs


Too busy to look at the camera for a photo

Boys

Add to all the "excitement" of the week a repairman coming to fix our dryer!  (Finally!)  Not having a dryer while the kids both hat the flu was not fun!  Both kids thought seeing the workings of the dryer mechanics was crazy interesting.

Learning about robots in films and then building paper robots that light up with his friend Elliott

Nathanael built Eva a robot on Thursday.

And we also finally were all well enough to play in the snow before it melted.

Finally, Nathanael and Dad visited an indoor high ropes course -- an absolute success!