I fly back tomorrow, and my last weekend here has been rather, well, dreary. High summer it may be, but this is Victoria so we've had rain and temps in the low twenties (C). And my sister and her family are all sick, with something my older nephew picked up last week, passed to his father, who passed it back, then got it back, and now my poor sister's been laid low and the younger boy seems to be teetering on the edge. (I escaped the worst of it - fever, lassitude, joint pain, shakes.) But this is what family's about, I suppose - in sickness and in health! - and it's nice to be able to take some of the pressure off my sister and her husband by diverting the kids. I trust we'll have a more summery next get-together in half a year in California!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Under the weather
I fly back tomorrow, and my last weekend here has been rather, well, dreary. High summer it may be, but this is Victoria so we've had rain and temps in the low twenties (C). And my sister and her family are all sick, with something my older nephew picked up last week, passed to his father, who passed it back, then got it back, and now my poor sister's been laid low and the younger boy seems to be teetering on the edge. (I escaped the worst of it - fever, lassitude, joint pain, shakes.) But this is what family's about, I suppose - in sickness and in health! - and it's nice to be able to take some of the pressure off my sister and her husband by diverting the kids. I trust we'll have a more summery next get-together in half a year in California!
