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We have been "busy" laying low this weekend - I think we were exhausted! We thoroughly enjoyed having my parents here for 2 weeks - but I guess they wore us out :-). This was a 4 day holiday weekend in Spain (basically - Thursday was a holiday and they call Friday a "puente" - the "bridge" to make it a long weekend). We had several things planned - some relaxing, company on Friday night, a day excursion somewhere on Saturday, church for Spanish Mother's Day today... so we started off in good form with a very relaxing day on Thursday, intending to hit it harder the rest of the time. But then Katie came down with a high fever... so much for the weekend plans! I think we must have all needed the rest more than we thought because it was really very nice to relax for 4 straight days while being stuck around the house. The pic is of Katie playing w/ Daddy - on the day she felt better! (clearly!)

An interesting anecdote about Katie being sick: I thought she had strept throat b/c her throat really really hurt and she had a high fever. So Friday morning I decided we should get her checked out - partly selfishly to try to get her better and "save" some of this long weekend, and partly worrying about how we'd get her to a doctor b/c it was a holiday weekend. We were told that the Spanish just go to the ER - kind of strange, but what we figured we'd have to do. Just to give it a shot, I called a couple of doctors from a Notebook with info about Spain to see what they said to do. The crazy part: we found a doctor who does house calls who was perfectly willing to come over in an hour to come see our sick daughter on the holiday!! Crazy!! Oh - and she spoke English :-). I was quite thankful not to have to drag Katie up to a chaotic ER where she wouldn't understand anything that was going on! The doctor diagnosed Katie with roseola and basically told us it's a virus that has to run its course in 3-5 days - bummer there was no antibiotics to the rescue :-). Fortunately Katie felt tons better Sat morning, but she still had a fever late Sat afternoon. So we stayed home all weekend!

I got spoiled rotten today for Mother's Day - coffee then breakfast in bed, a wonderful surprise plate that Katie & Jason had made for me in Dallas and then figured out how to get it here to us, a visit to a beautiful rose garden in full bloom near our house, then lunch at a Spanish restaurant where we got to watch all the other Mother's Day celebrants - I enjoyed the people watching as much as the food! It was a wonderful day arranged by my wonderful husband and daughter!

More about my parent's visit soon....

Happy Mother's Day from Spain!
Becca