Re: update on the lois household saga ,nz.

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hello lois. it sounds like you had a beautiful day. glad you were able

to get aay. these memories will last through the rough times. measles

.. yuck. have you had them. who and why the bowel surgery. hope it is

not one of the children. whoever it is i wish tem luck and success.

write when you can. i miss not talking to you. love ya cathy

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>Lois

It sounds like your night away was awesome!!! You describe it

wonderfully and its almost like Im there!

Im so sorry that you came home to so much going on that was far from

wonderful though, you have immense strength to handle it all with so

much love and determination!

I hope that your upcoming week is much better than this past one!

Many many hugs to you Lois and your entire family!

Donna

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Lois,

I am extremely happy that you and your husband got to enjoy a night out by yourselves! Sometimes you just need to get away and from what I have read you definitely needed that time away! It sounds like it was an unforgettable place and you had a nice romantic time away from the children!

I envy you both so much for what you have to deal with on a regular basis. Please know that I will say my prayers for Jane and that the measles do not make there way throughout the house. I also hope that your hand heals soon. Please take care and know that I am always thinking of all of you! God Bless and Best Wishes Always!

DawnLois Coulter wrote:

Greetings one and all,decided i had a free few minutes to update our thingsare going in our neck of the woods.Our 18 th wedding anniversary went well.My hubby davand i had our first night away in five years withoutkids.We went to a place called Hanmer Springs.This is athermal springs made into a great tourist spot.You soak in amazing hot pools with the souther alpscovered in snow.The pools are about 40 degress celiousdont know the conversion (sorry chaps).The air temp insummer can be upto 38 degress celious.Mid winter -6.We fially got away by 11.30 saturday.-jane wasscreaming as we pulled away dav and i nearly turnedback.We got about an hour our of our city and a ride onlawn mower nearly became a flattened by us.The stupiddriver pulled out of a side Rd without looking and davthankfully had great

reflexes and we had to cross tothe otherside of the road into on comming trafficnearly rolled our van.We didnt and didnt actually hit anything but i hadthis great burning sensation all through my body.(itwas too close for comfort.We have a wind here in newzealand called a norwester.Its only bad here on our canturbury plans.Wellguess what decided to blow gale force yep thenorwester.Our van is a 8 seater people mover which ishigh sided, eekkk i got a bit nervous there a fewtimes.But as we got closer to our naughty night away thewinds died down.We arrived to drizzel but that didnt damper ourspirits.We got our cabin and it was quite neat.Theveiw from the bedroom window wonderful.we headed off to the pools three hours later weclimbed out of the pool.Next door to the campingground we visited a beautiful pub.The atmisphere wasfamily but so elegant.we umm and haaa re dining therethen we thought

no.went and brought fishn chips and drove up a neatvalley.PArked in a walking area had tea and fed the birdshand fed them it was so nice.The sun dispite it being7.00 at night the sun shone through.Dav and i walked hand in hand along a loverlystream.There were birds calling there nightly song andthe veiws were magical.we headed back to the pub had a couple of beeers thenback to the unit.I couldnt get over i could sit for 10minutes withoutkids going mummy can i? mummy she hit me!!!I waited tohear these thiings nothing.Dav and i had crackers and a selection of cheese thenscorched armonds, the rest you dont need to knowlol!!!!!!Morning dawned bright and loverly. we went back to thepools for another couple of hours.Got home about 1.30it was over oh to quikerly!!!!.And guess what that night vicki became really ill andhad a bleed from the one and only kidney she has.Itsettled but we found out

rsd has gone there tooo.Buggar!Monday came and went with mum having another mildstroke.finally got dav to come with me to see -janesphycologist, we get their and dam i was a day early.wednesday found out the bumped to my hand last weekhas torn two ligments in my hand.So was bandaged up.Thursady evening vicki was back to drs pain attack orspasm as we now know its called.We didnt sleep till 2am thatnight.Then saturday(last night i fed 30 people here) abarbecue.It went well except it ws too cold to eatoutside thankgoodness my house is big!it was a loverly night.But it turned sour as zoe became really ill and i dintsleep last night.Looks like she has measles!! Nice rash high temp whichstarted last night with massive heavey cold commingout of the blue!Dav gets to work tomorrow teaching.so he will be gonefor the day maybe i can get some work done.THe week promises to be

busy as Sj is suppose to havea bowel operation wednesday hopefully she wont getwhat zoe has lol!!!So there the weeks update on the lois and vicki sarga.To all my friends who are suffering just now, i wishhugs could be emailed along with a glass of get wellpucnh.I lov you all and hope oneday we all met and shout forjoy for all our inner strengths.i adamire you allyou friend lois in New zealand ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Lois,

My, my, you are one busy woman. It sounds like you had a wonderful getaway..

I'm very glad you were able to go..

I hope the girls are feeling better.. they are much too young to be dealing

with all of this.

You are going into summertime now, aren't you? We have a friend who lives in

, NZ (I guess it's the North Island??). He was born there, but has lived

all over the world. He recently returned to NZ when he found out they were

expecting their first child (who is now 1 yr old). He loves it there and can't

find a better place to raise a child. He and his family run a Bed & Breakfast

type resort in .

WHEN I go to visit (and someday I will), I will make it a point to reach

Christchurch....

Hugs,

Jo