too many bodily fluids for the first two days!

This is a quick, unedited post...just a couple quick notes about the start so that I don't forget to share them. They include way to many bodily fluids being all over the place. way to many for any day, but especially the first couple of this kind of journey across the world!

1) 15 min after we boarded the flight, just as we were pushing back to get in line to take off, our little lady said she needed to go potty. The flight attendant wouldn't let her get up. Well as soon as the "seat belt sign" was turned off, what seemed to be like 20 min later, I took her to go potty only to discover she wet. not just wet, but thoroughly soaked, her pants, skirt, socks, everything on her. ugh! Big mistake people. when a little kid says they need to go potty, its usually at the last min and they are usually quick, so for goodness sakes let them go! thank the Lord that I was smart enough to pack an extra set of clothes for her including a pull up. Not sure why I packed it, but thankful! I put the new clothes on her and made her wear the pull up just incase

the rest of the flight was ok. kids wouldn't sleep for the first 9 hours...but the loved the business class seats and thoroughly enjoyed the extra amenities, snack and movies at their demand. we landed, got our bags, found our ride to the temp housing and took a deep breath.

the lady downstairs is a god send. she knew our car wasnt being delivered until later int he day (we arrived in the early am) so she said she could run me up the grocery store (about 10 min drive) and let me get some food for the kiddos. What a saint. I am so grateful for her. she even went inside the store and helped me navigate the isles and descifer between product.s I could not have asked for more!

Ok, better get to the other part of the story of fluids before I have to get of the computer. This morning the kids woke up at 2am screaming. (never happened before) they said they miss our old house, or something. we calmed them down and got the settled back to sleep. all seemed well, except that we couldn't go back to sleep. but who cares about that. anyway hours later..Then our oldest threw up all over his bed and now has been throwing up every 10-15 min. He is super sad and just wants to go "home." poor guy. what a start to the adventure. We told it is was sure to only get better, but now we have to go back to the store (which I can not drive to alone despite the fact that we have our car, because the delivers a manual transmission car and I am not a good manual transmission driver!) So now I might make the hubs go...but he hasnt ever been there, and regular stores in the states we fine, but this could be interesting. Wonder what he will come back with? Please God. Let this be a simple bump in the road. We had plans for today, plans to explore before our house hunt on Monday, but now we shall sit around and that is just fine as long as it helps my kid feel better.

more later