Cooped Up

E has had a low-grade fever for the past several days. I haven't taken her to the doctor because she has had no other symptoms and seems quite happy despite the fever. Unfortunately yesterday took a turn for the worse as her fever spiked to 103 in the afternoon and up to 105 in the night despite the medicine. So needless to say, I took her to the doctor first thing this morning. Turns out she has adenovirus. I'm glad I took her in so that I now know exactly what's going on, but since there are no antibiotics that I can give her to make it better... it's just a waiting game. And since it's contagious, we're cooped at up home.

It's 70 degrees and completely sunny today... the best day we've had in Nagoya yet. This is the view from my balcony.

We had plans to go to a doll making class this morning with our good friends, and then have lunch and a park play date on this beautiful day. But sadly, we had to miss all of that and I'm currently writing this post while E hopefully takes a long nap. She needs it... and so do I!

But on a more positive note, I have the windows wide open, country music playing, and my Christmas cactus is blooming!

This plant was given to me by another expat who was moving back to the U.S. and had to leave it behind. It was in poor condition and Joe thought I should just throw it away. I strongly disagreed and  thought I'd give it a little time and see if I could revive it. Let me be honest here, I have no clue how to take care of plants. I don't know the slightest thing about plants in general other than they need water and sunlight. I haven't done any research on this plant and still to this day do not know how to take proper care of it, but yet in its short time with me it has bloomed TWICE! :)  It's beautiful and I'll be sad to leave it behind when we move home this fall. I'll be searching for a good home for it to go to... hopefully to someone that has a little more plant knowledge than me.