Only 3 miles today. That’s not really enough, but it’s what I’m going to get until both of my children are healed.

Oh, Middle Child has a thing now. *sigh* I’d be super happy if my kids could be healthy and fully functional. Or at least wait until we get back to a country where we can have an easy conversation with doctors. Erf. We are doing the recommended home treatment (soaking and squeezing out puss) and it already looks a lot better than it did when he woke up. My comment to him: “Sweetie, this is why I’ve been telling y’all that chewing on your toenails isn’t wise. Your mouth is dirty.”

Apparently his toenails aren’t dirty but his mouth is? I don’t know. Ugh.

Bodies are rough. I will say that when things go wrong my children relax in a way that causes me to feel better about myself. “In perfect love and perfect trust” describes the way their entire body relaxes when I say “Hold still, I need to help you with this.” They believe I can fix basically anything. I didn’t ever expect to be trusted to this degree. It’s amazing.

I spent some time today moving stuff around in suitcases. I think I have gotten Noah from 85 lbs of checked baggage up to a solid 100 lbs of checked bags. This will make my trip easier.

I am seriously looking forward to finally getting to Scotland so I can share these books with my nieces. Ok, I probably won’t deliver the books to Jenny’s house till the end of the trip. We still use them for academics but June will be great. I feel super happy about knowing that at least 10 lbs will be disappearing. Ahhhhh.

When we leave Inverness we get to have 5- 50 lb checked bags, a diaper bag, 4- 22 lb carry on bags, and 4- small backpacks/purses. And we’ll have way less crap! I don’t think we’ll need all of them because we will get rid of enough stuff in Scotland.

The load is lightening with every hop. And after Scotland I don’t think we’ll see proper cold for a long time. I may not bring my fleece lined jeans for reasons of weight.

Ok. Time for bed.