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August 27, 2007
Starting Out
Autumn is fast approaching and with it thoughts on the summer days we enjoyed, canning veggies from the garden, it was pickles I made this year and maybe some salsa if my tomatoes ripen up.
The kids enjoyed a bon fire Saturday evening and slept out in their tents in the back yard. I left the porch light on for them which attracted the bugs and moths.
I've entered a pie baking contest for our annual facility carnival day where I work. I think I'll make apple this year.
I've been looking at pictures of Montana and Wyoming, AWESOME scenery and gorgeous sunsets. I told Hubby that we MUST get up early every morning while we are there to see the sun come up over those magestic mountains. And...we can't miss any of the sunsets either! SPECTACULAR and it's going to be SO much better than any picture could ever paint.
Posted by tracey at 09:06 AM | Comments (1)
August 19, 2007
Kind of a rough end
to our summer days...
So we spent the last week out to my husband's family camp on the lake and it was a nice time despite some crappy weather here and there. Devon usually celebrates her birthday out there and this year it was spent inside, but turned out nice anyway. She's turning the BIG 15 on Tuesday...and of course at this age the only gift that matters is cold hard cash and that is what she got!
Poor Hannah on the other hand is quite ill and spent the day at the hospital getting rehydrated and medications for pain. Her symptoms started about 10 days ago and just progressively got worse until I finally got her in to see the doctor on Friday, not her regular, but the covering doc, which, I'm not to taken with. Anyhow, on Friday she didn't think too much was wrong with her, a virus, usual diagnosis, "nothing we can do but let it run it's course." Ok, I know that, but this seemed a little different to me. SO, she did a strep culture of her throat and said she would call Sat am if it was positive and if I didn't hear from her then not to worry. Ok, so Sat comes, Hannah is feeling even worse than on Friday, I wait til noon, no call from the doctor so, Ok, nothing is wrong, strep wise anyhow, but I still wasn't convinced. In the meantime I'm trying everything I can think of to make her feel better, salt water gargles, teaspoons of honey and lemon and tylenol, but to no avail. The poor kid couldn't swallow, she couldn't get comfortable and then yesterday all she did was sleep, which I thought was good...
To make a long story short, I decided to call the doctor again this morning as she was even worse than the day before and she said to take her in to the hospital and get some labs done. The ER nurse immediately suspected strep because of the foul odor and her voice being all distorted, she did another culture, positive. Then I asked about Mono because of her sudden sleepiness, sure enough, positive. The doctor seemed a bit surprised by all this and kept saying, "Well, she is worse than when I saw her on Friday." Course, I chalked it up to the nurse knowing more then her and getting a better culture, but anyhoo, they kept her all day to rehydrate her as she was bone dry and had some ketones in her urine. So 9 hours later we are home and she's passed out on the couch, but feeling much better, but a little bummed she missed the county fair and her big sister didn't.
I told her maybe we'll catch another fair around the county before the end of the season, she beamed from ear to ear...
Posted by tracey at 07:43 PM | Comments (1)
August 02, 2007
Sunburned and
just a bit irritated!
I bought a brand new car June 22, BRAND SPANKIN' NEW. Haven't even made my first payment yet, tomorrow it's due and maybe I should just hold off on that!
I've liked the car really well, it's little, but actually pretty roomy inside and it gets really good gas mileage, but it's cheaply put together! Our first road trip today, about 150 miles round trip and the trim on the driver's side bumper came off! Came right off and we didn't even hit anything!!! Plastic crap and it snapped right off.
What I don't get is cars today cost an arm and a leg, they aren't cheap! Even the little ones like I have and yet they are made to fall apart whereas years ago cars were relatively cheap, compared to today's crazy prices, and you couldn't break the things if you tried! Unreal and do I ever sound like my father, but it's true!
The sunburn part is from spending a great day at a water park! Even with using SPF 50 sunblock, I'm still a little red in places! But, it was worth it. The kids all had a great time as did we and the place was packed! One of the best years we have had there, minus the "new" car problem...
It's always something right?
Posted by tracey at 10:36 PM | Comments (0)