The Netherlands

Miracle on miracles, Millie woke up at 8am. She immediately put on her dress up stuff and was as happy as can be. This is a good lesson in letting your kid be whoever they want to be. In our case, our child identifies as a unicorn fairy. We walked to a good coffee shop…

We had breakfast and then Nick took Millie to camp. I left shortly after them so I could meet him at a toy store. As I mentioned yesterday, I think much of her struggle has been that she has been without the things that bring her the most joy, and she hasn’t had enough space…

Today was sort of a copy & paste of yesterday. Camp, planning, a museum, dinner out, and ending the day with a big meltdown for good measure. Nick walked Millie over to camp this morning and reported that it went much smoother than previous days, no tears. She’s either getting used to it or saves…

Millie slept great and seemed just about all the way better, so we brought her back to camp this morning. Drop off was perhaps worse than Monday but they assured me that she calmed down quickly and had a good day. Nick and I headed back to the hotel room to shower and do some…

Millie was up much of the night with gastro issues. I will spare you the details, but we knew she shouldn’t go to camp today. We were all very disappointed for reasons you can imagine. After breakfast we had to get out of our room so that housekeeping could replace the sheets, also for reasons…

Millie was fever free and happy as could be when we put her to bed. Then at 1AM she crawled into our bed and was burning up. We took her temperature and it was scary high. She took some Tylenol and chugged some water and fell asleep. Then in the morning it was normal again.…

It was a rough night of sleep for everyone – I think I slept about 3 hours total. Millie came into our bed and breathed her hot breath directly into my face all night. When our alarms went off at 5:30AM she was still warm but had a lower fever than the night before and…