Getting ready for school

I am wiped out because I took our youngest to the dental clinic at children's hospital and the entire visit took from 6AM until 1PM!!! She is soing to have a proceedure that requires anesthesia to remove the viral caused growths on her lips. The dentist, who speakes English, says she is seeing this a lot and thinks it may be because poor families share tooth brushes. Her older sister, from whom I bought some outstanding baskets and a terrific head mask of a toucan says the little one is the only one in the family to have the growths, which are a virus. It is a beautiful summer day here in Panama and the girls go back to school next Monday - so we are busy buying new shoes for everyone ( about $13 a pair). We have to prepare the uniforms too, white shirt and blue skirt for primary with short top blue socks, light blue shirt and blue skirt for the first part of secondary school and dark blue knee socks. We don't have anyone in the second part of secondary this year but they where white shirts and blue skirts and white socks and a blue ribbon like tie around the neck. We had a bit of rain last night but it is hot and windy today. We still have water flowing from the taps!!

Tia Sue