Summer Vacation Is Here

                            Yay!  Today is the first full day of summer vacation.  And boy does it feel like it.  It is 82 degrees right now in Southern Indiana, with 51% humidity, sunny and hot!

 

It is too soon for Eler Beth to go outside to do much, but she is getting so much better.  That anitbiotic is kicking butt, and her cough is much better.  I let her have one of her neighborhood-as-bored-as-she-is-girl friends over and they have been working puzzles and playing video games all day.  Andrew watched tv and is now (supposedly) cleaning his room.  He wants me to take him to Gamestop today so he can trade-in some games he never plays anymore.  He is trying to get together some money for something!  He has one lawn-mowing job this summer, will be watching EB for us and has his allowance, but when there's something he really wants he's willing to try to find the money for it somehow.  (He knows he's been advanced all he can be advanced on his allowance!)  I think Thomas has some odd-jobs-for-pay lined out for him for this summer, though.  He just doesn't know it yet.

This is Way Too Early for a Saturday!

It is 5:16 am on a Saturday and I am wide awake.  I do NOT have to work today.  Thomas left for work at 4:30.  I got up when he did at 3:30!!!  I do like to do that sometimes, because it gives us a few quiet minutes together without the kids, but then I usually go back to bed.  Instead I'm sitting here drinking coffee.  A VERY, VERY GOOD cup of coffee.  So I decided to get online and read a few journals.  Then I think I'll clean the bathroom and get it out of the way.  Then I'll probably go back to bed!!!

Wednesday night I DID do my crunches -- 50 of them (see entry below), and Thursday night since it was raining I did 50 more.  Last night I did 50 crunches, plus a few other exercises.  This morning I should walk a mile.  Maybe after the sun comes up!   Anyway, I'm proud of myself for following through so far on my 30 day challenge/commitment.

Well, more later.  I'm going to finish my coffee, read some journals and then clean my bathroom.

Bronchitis and A BAD Mood!

Baby Girl has Bronchitis.  I ended up taking her to the doctor.  She doesn't have strep, but her throat is raw from all that coughing.  They took a chest x-ray because her breathing was so bad.  She also has some fluid building up in her ears. So we spent $30.00 on an antibiotic and an inhaler, bought Dimetapp, juice and yogurt (the doctor told her to eat yogurt every day for two weeks because the antibiotic can cause a yeast infection.).

She is feeling so bad and in such a bad mood.  Tomorrow is the last day of school, and it's only a half day.  She has an excuse, but if she's feeling up to it and her fever doesn't come back, I told her she could go if she wants.  She's asleep right now, but she keeps talking in her sleep and thrashing around, fussing.  She and I both need a good night's sleep.  She made an entry in her journal today which is so cute: 

9:56:21 AM EDT
Feeling Quiet

sick on the last week of school

I am home,sick in bed on the last week of school.   It is alredy Thurs.   I can't stop cauphin.   (I whant to jest go to bed).

Poor baby.  I hope she gets over this soon.

http://journals.aol.com/princesselerbeth/FossilsandOtherFavoriteThingsLik/entries/991

I'm Passing on a Challenge

Tonight it's Crunches............

I have been reading jgalarza879, http://journals.aol.com/jgalarza879/SmallTownLife/, a journal that is new to me, that I have been enjoying, and she accepted a challenge from another fellow J'lander and is passing it on.  The original challenge was to pick something, anything, that is good for us and do it every day for 30 days.  She is doing 100 crunches every day.  I am walking up to a mile every day, unless the weather is bad, in which case I am going to do at least 50 crunches.  I am even measuring my waist to see where I'm starting and where I'll finish on June 30.  I'm doing crunches tonight because it is raining and too late to walk.

Who's with me?

We Love Them, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

I really do like The Beatles.  During every stage of their careers.  I was born in 1966, so I didn't really "grow up" with them, but I did grow up listening to them.  As stated before my eldest sister was 18 in 1966 when I was born.  I don't think she was all that crazy about The Beatles, but the two sisters closest to me in age listened to them a lot.  As I grew up and learned more about music and lyrics and harmony and instruments, I appreciated them more.  I have never been and am not now an "idol-worshipper" of any kind.  I don't go crazy over any performer, cry at concerts, fight for tickets, daydream about some actor, and so forth.  I never did as a teenager, either.  But I really, really appreciate a talented performer and The Beatles as a group had it all together.  Individually they had their own strengths which I can also appreciate, but together, they were awesome.  Anyway, I've been enjoying this web site, and I thought someone else might also:  http://www.thebeatlesarecoming.com/blog.html

It's written in the form of a day-by-day chronicling of The Beatles in America.  It's very good!

Change of Plans

Today was my short day.  Eler Beth had a doctor's appointment this afternoon, but they called to re-schedule it.  They never did give me a reason.  I guess he had some kind of emergency.  Now we don't get to deal with the panic issue until June 22.  GREAT!

She is still sick.  Her fever isn't as high, her throat looks fine, but she still has a cough.  I couldn't get her in to her regular pediatrician, and I'm really hoping I don't have to end up taking her to the Urgent Care Center.  I'm hoping a nice tepid bath, medication and lots of liquids and sleep will do the trick.  She only has one and a half days of school left!

Andrew had finals in Algebra and Keyboarding.  Science is Friday, not today.  And tomorrow he has Spanish and Theater finals.  They even have a final in Gym(!!!) on Friday.  I will be soooooo glad to have them out of school.

I'm still trying to catch up on my Journal Jar questions.  Here is number 12.  http://journals.aol.com/helmswondermom/LorisJournalJar/entries/319

MY VERY FIRST COMMENT!!!

Yesterday at work I checked my home email, and guess what?  I had an alert that someone had left a comment in my journal!  Yay!  My first official one!  (My daughter left one, but that's different.)  I know that other people besides me at least "open" my journal.  The counter tells me so.  Perhaps some people actually read it once in a while?  Anyway, thanks Kris.  You just don't know how much that meant to me!

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