Katrina enjoys going with us to our Journey group on Sunday afternoons.  This is basically a small group from our church, with something in common.  They formerly called them, “Care Groups”.  We typically get together at the hosts’ home, do Bible studies, share things we’ve learned, pray for each other & fellowship together.  Since our group consists of many people around the same age, there are also a few kids that are close to the girls’ ages (younger than Kat, but older/about the same as Alyssa) & they all have a nice time playing together, too.  Just this week, our church began a special project on Wednesday nights: Journey Groups for Kids!  They have classes for Kindergarten-aged kids, on up & meet at the church for an hour, from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.  When we asked Katrina if she’d like to participate, her answer was an enthusiastic, “yes”, so we let her go & she had a great time!  She came home with “homework”, already – they are learning to memorize the names of the books of the Bible.  She should know the first 5 by next class time.  She hasn’t really gotten them down, just yet, but we’re working on it…

On Friday, Katrina went to school in the morning, as is typical.  She had no ill symptoms, nor was she complaining about feeling bad at all.  However, around an hour after school started, the nurse called home.  Kat had told her teacher that her head hurt & she had also been crying about it.  So, the nurse asked if she could be given some Children’s Tylenol & about 5 minutes later, we got the call that Katrina had no sooner taken the medicine, than she vomited.  We got her home, cleaned her up & had her lie down in her bed, to rest.  We’re not sure if she actually fell asleep or not, but she was singing & acting “herself” within an hour or so.  So, after we let her get up, she began saying she was hungry.  We were a bit worried, at first, but figured, if she really were sick, that she wouldn’t be complaining and/or wanting food so soon.  So, after eating a full lunch & having no problems whatsoever, she was “wired” – playing, acting goofy, etc.  You’d never have known there was ever anything wrong with her!  We eventually condluded that the initial problem of her headache was due to her wearing a new type of headband that was pretty tight on her head that morning.  She’d never worn this kind before; it had little grips on it, to keep it in place, since her old ones kept slipping on her.  Anyway, we threw those out & would like to warn others – don’t put Scunci “no slip grip” headbands on your child, if she is 5 or older & has always been on the “above average” side of the head circumference chart!  Ha-ha!  But seriously, the stomach problem, we could only figure was due to stress – being nervous/unsure of herself, since the nurse had to call home – perhaps the poor girl thought she’d get in trouble with her Mommy & Daddy, or something like that…  It’s all an unsolved mystery, to this day – she didn’t have a fever at the time, or since & hasn’t shown any symptoms of any illness, whatsoever!  Strange happenings!  We’re just thankful all was ok & she was glad to go back to school on Monday, as well.