Please donate to the Tsunami Relief Efforts
Thanks to everyone for their support and words of encouragement for us, it really has meant a lot to hear from all our friends and family. I would still like to encourage anyone that hasn’t done so – please donate anything you can to the relief efforts going on right now for this horrible disaster. I can not stress enough how much the people affected by this tsunami have lost. I know you see it on the news and you are probably hearing about it constantly, and it really is that horrible. There are so many people that need help right now. Please take a look at: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/tsunami.aidsites/index.html
This is CNN’s list of places you can donate to. I’m not kidding when I say that even a measly $5 would help.
I can not believe that it’s been over a week since the tsunami hit. We are still just trying to catch up on sleep and get back into daily life. Ashley was sick, running fever with cough at end of last week. She still has cough, but fever is gone. Liz is sick, had very high temperature yesterday (103.5 F) that wasn’t being brought down by Ibuprofen or Acetaminophen. We took her to the doctor last night, she has an enterovirus – which is a common childhood illness, second to cold’s, I think. They gave her suppository, which helped break fever about 2 hours later. She slept on and off last night, and seems to be doing better today, just cranky, but no fever. I was running a fever last week too, I think from exhaustion, but it’s finally gone now too. Anthony went back to work, for a full day, today. The girls did good with him leaving, Liz cried a bit and was really clingy right before he left, but she was fine after he was gone.
We are making arrangements to come home to Texas for our visit. We leave this Saturday, the 8th, will be in Texas until early Feb, then we’ll go over to Arizona and visit more family, then back here to Taipei in mid February. I am excited to be going home, can’t wait to give everyone big hugs!
Soon I will post about how great our trip to Thailand was before the tsunami. I have posted pics up on our Webshots site, and you can pretty much see everything we did. We had a wonderful time and really enjoyed the country and activities. The girls did awesome. We had no idea how well they would do when we were planning our trip. Anthony was a bit nervous about the whole sleeping in one room with them, but it worked great. There were usually so tired from their day out and about, they feel asleep fairly easily. We even had a babysitter (“See”) who watched them twice for us, once while we went out to dinner and another time while we had massages. See actually found us on the fourth floor after the tsunami and gave the girls a HUGE hug and lots of smiles. She spoke little English, but was able to convey her happiness at seeing all of us unhurt and we were happy to see her too.
We haven’t really celebrated New Years yet. We did buy a bottle of champagne, but have been so tired every night; we just haven’t bothered to open it. Don’t know if we will before we even go back to States, but that’s ok. We are just so happy to be here, with our family intact and safe.
This is CNN’s list of places you can donate to. I’m not kidding when I say that even a measly $5 would help.
I can not believe that it’s been over a week since the tsunami hit. We are still just trying to catch up on sleep and get back into daily life. Ashley was sick, running fever with cough at end of last week. She still has cough, but fever is gone. Liz is sick, had very high temperature yesterday (103.5 F) that wasn’t being brought down by Ibuprofen or Acetaminophen. We took her to the doctor last night, she has an enterovirus – which is a common childhood illness, second to cold’s, I think. They gave her suppository, which helped break fever about 2 hours later. She slept on and off last night, and seems to be doing better today, just cranky, but no fever. I was running a fever last week too, I think from exhaustion, but it’s finally gone now too. Anthony went back to work, for a full day, today. The girls did good with him leaving, Liz cried a bit and was really clingy right before he left, but she was fine after he was gone.
We are making arrangements to come home to Texas for our visit. We leave this Saturday, the 8th, will be in Texas until early Feb, then we’ll go over to Arizona and visit more family, then back here to Taipei in mid February. I am excited to be going home, can’t wait to give everyone big hugs!
Soon I will post about how great our trip to Thailand was before the tsunami. I have posted pics up on our Webshots site, and you can pretty much see everything we did. We had a wonderful time and really enjoyed the country and activities. The girls did awesome. We had no idea how well they would do when we were planning our trip. Anthony was a bit nervous about the whole sleeping in one room with them, but it worked great. There were usually so tired from their day out and about, they feel asleep fairly easily. We even had a babysitter (“See”) who watched them twice for us, once while we went out to dinner and another time while we had massages. See actually found us on the fourth floor after the tsunami and gave the girls a HUGE hug and lots of smiles. She spoke little English, but was able to convey her happiness at seeing all of us unhurt and we were happy to see her too.
We haven’t really celebrated New Years yet. We did buy a bottle of champagne, but have been so tired every night; we just haven’t bothered to open it. Don’t know if we will before we even go back to States, but that’s ok. We are just so happy to be here, with our family intact and safe.
posted by The Armstrongs at
1/03/2005
