stinkin wasps!

second wasp bite.  these wasps have weird hanging things from their behind. the slash you with their firey tails and i think the hanging thing is actually a ball and chain whip with fire attachments….it really hurts. right now my hand is swollen up to my wrist. it looks weird. it doesn’t look like my hand. following up with that i opened the fridge door and a huge can of peaches slammed into the knuckle of my big toe. it split and bled, swelled right up and now i can’t bend it or put weight on it.  i’m just glad i don’t have leprosy. that might hurt too!

i have a really strong desire to leave hre. no, not because of my ‘flesh wounds’ but because i think i’m over the whole fiji thing. for today anyway. i do like it here, i really do! it’s just that everyday life here is so challenging and i know that it doesn;t have to be. maybe some of it i bring on myself but when the everyday involves spring cleaning just to get back to zero, i think it’s just too much. it’s not a pristine environment. it dusty and dirty and noisy. that’s where we live. along the coast it would be a totally different story. but i don’t live there. i live here and i live in the everyday and it’s stinking full of creepy wasps and lots of housework!

i got Alec some new, proper running shoes. he is quite literelly jumping up on the walls. Did i EVER have the energy to do that? Mom? i think not. he is like a little energizer bunny when he wants to. his new ‘trainers’ are so that he can enter the Milo track and field games and represent his school. He is thrilled with his new shoes and his abilities in them. up until this point he has been in croc knock-offs. broken ones at that. he did have a pair of runners from the states but came home one day barefoot and we cannot locate the missing shoes. that happens alot here. chilren arriving home bare-foot. most of the times, we don’t even bother with shoes for them. like the rest of the country!

as i type, Elias is incessantly chatting in my ear. sometimes, i tell you, i wish he would just shush. he is so chatty! Alec is running like a crazy man back and forth and jumping up onto the walls. sometimes i wish he would just be still. Vaughn is chatting and running and the topper to it all is he is poopy.  sometimes i wish he would just not poop!

at least none of them bite. 

nice thought.

moce.