Always to much to do....

So I came home from my Mom's Sunday without any kids. My plan, clean the house. I'm still working on that. The living room does look really nice but that's about it. I had new plans added to the mix Monday and I've been a bit obsessed with them. I'm flying to Seattle Friday morning! I'll get there about 3pm and Jeremy will be picking me up from the airport. We're gonna spend time in Seattle checking things out since neither of us have ever been. Then, very exciting, on Saturday we are going to a smaller town between Seattle and Canada to meet one of my internet friends for lunch! I can't wait to meet Tara, Ken and there boys. We meet in a pregnancy group when I was pregnant with Alissa and she was pregnant with her first baby Kevin. We have been friends now for 5 years and finally get to meet in person. Very cool, hu?!
I will fly back home on Monday and then go back to my Mom's on Tuesday so I will be there with the kids for the 4th. Then we're coming home and hopefully we can have a little down time before sports start back up.

On a totally unrelated topic Alissa had a staph infection in her leg a couple of weeks ago. I kept forgetting to mention it. I'm guessing it started as a mosquito bite and when she scratched it became infected. I put neosporian on it for several days thinking maybe it was a sticker or that she was allergic to mosquito's. It would always look better in the morning but was swollen and red by bedtime so on the third day I made her a Dr. appt. for the next day. When she woke up the next morning it was so swollen it hurt her to walk on that leg and it had a huge puss filled head. I decided not to mess with it myself and let the Dr be the mean one. Of course, the thing popped about 2 hours before we went to the Dr so I kept it covered as it oozed gross stuff. So anyway the Dr squeezed all sorts of gross stuff out of my poor babies leg. Alissa was such a big girl though and tried really hard not to cry. Now 2 weeks. $70 worth of antibiotics, cream and liquid, and lots of begging to get Alissa to take the gross medi she is all healed up. I chose to mention it because it is actually a first in my mothering life. I've never dealt with this before. I actually had never considered the fact that one of my kids could get such a horrible infection from scratching a mosquito bite. I'm so glad we're past that. I'll defiantly be more vigilant about my kids washing there hands now too.

It's been forever

About a million things have happened since I last posted. School is finally over. Has been for awhile actually. We got through the 3 awards shows with Jeremy in tow. The kids all got great grades and were promoted to the next grade. Dylan was tested for Gifted and Talented and missed making in by 1 stinking point! He was also recognized for being the top AR reader in the whole 2nd grade and for missing only 1 day of school the whole year. Cassidy's birthday went off without a hitch. We had a birthday dinner at Texas Roadhouse that was excellent. We have taken a trip to Borger to see Jeremy's family, Amarillo to see mine and pick up my 7 year old cousin and Oklahoma to pick up my 16 year old sister. Jeremy left for Washington May 29th. :( My cousin stayed 2 weeks and we had a great time. My sister stayed till Sunday when I brough her home to Oklahoma. We are still in Oklahoma spending time with my Mommy. I am going home on Thursday and leaving the kids with my Mom. She's giving me a much needed break from single mommying.

I also got one piece of amazingly wonderful news from one of my forever friends. If you don't have a forever friend I suggest you get one. I actually have more then one. The one with the good news is more like a sister to me. We grew up together. We know each others secrets and fears. We can go a million years without hearing from each other but we always know that the other is there for us when we need then. So now on to the great news. Lori is going to be a Mommy!!! I am so happy for her. She's gonna be an awesome Mom. Love ya, Lori!!!