Day 23 leaves this host dad TIRED. As part of the hosting experience we have the opportunity to send a care package back with the interview teams so that the kids get them after they return home. Normally this takes place a couple of weeks after the kids return home, however this time they have had to leave sooner than in previous hostings. We were up last night putting the bag together so that we could get it to them before they left. Since we could not do it until he went to bed, we were up late. At 5 this morning we woke up to a very itchy boy. We knew it had to be bad because this was the first time he had woken us up for anything. I got up and gave him a round of medicine and laid on the couch with him while he watched a movie.
As I was thinking about a few things today I thought about him being sick, and though how different of an experience he would have if he were to get the chicken pox back home. Would he be comforted in the same way that he is here? I came home from work this evening with him snuggled up with Linda on the couch asleep. Hopefully he will stop getting any new ones and then they start to heal and give him energy again. Shortly after I got home Lexie got sick. We are praying that this is just another short episode for her like the last one. Hopefully he will stop getting any new ones and then they start to heal and give him energy again.
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