Happy 39th Anniversary Arlene and Rich!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have many, many more.
ing. Happy Anniversary.
Help help help!! Haven't been as active on these boards as I wanted...had a lot of very stressful time consuming things happen last few months. Well, now it all takes the cake.
1) DD9 starts limping really badly. Took her to docs, have xray done. She has a bone deformity called a coalition - a painful bone deformation. surgery is the cure. DH had his heart mitral valve repaired two years ago - we only had my mom and I as caregivers. Full open heart surgery. It was easily a full year recovery - full year of me bring in charge of all...Of course her surgery won't be so scary, but, hey, its my kid and I know I will further age 20 years in one year. At best, she can walk a lot, at worse, since we will delay surgery, she wil be in portable splint, or wheel chair. She is a completely active child, so it will behard for her!! Luckily, its not too painful if she stays off of it.
2) DS12 comes back from Scout Camp. Had a blast. Gotten bitten by a deer tick. Incubation time for Lyme disease symptoms beginning are now until a week after we board the ship. I am thinking of taking him to our doc and getting the meds now, and if he begins to get ill, have the doc on board monitor him. He could give me the go ahead to give the drug, couldn't he?
Any of you brilliant wonderful people personal experts on Lyme disease? What I have read, it looks like we are totally hosed. I THINK, tho, they got the tick off fast. Area where they were camping is one of the highest in the US for lyme disease...
Shawn got his new heart!!!!
OK, that means nothing to you...DS9 has a good buddy from Alaska who was born with a heart defect. Great kid, great family. DS's entire K class and most of the school did the local Heart Walk and the school still does it every year for Shawn. Towards the end of 1st grade, Shawn was accepted into the heart transplant program at Stanford. We did fundraisers, we've send cards, we've prayed. FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS of his 9 years, Shawn and his mom have been LIVING at the Ronald McDonald House in CA waiting for a heart (while his dad & 2 sisters stayed in Alaska). Two and a half years!!
Of course, we all know that a family had to go through the unthinkable in order for this to happen. Shawn's donor was 7 years old.
I read the article to DS this morning. He looked and DH and me & went to get us tissues.
What a bittersweet story!So happy for Shawn & I wish him all the best!
Well, that could have been us...
So true!
That's what throws me. I'm not bringing a jar of peanut butter - I'm bringing pre-made sandwiches. How are that going to know if my sandwich fillings are 3 oz. or less???
I suppose that no matter what the rule is, it will totally depend on the mood of the GS-2 TSA screener that morning.
Most of the people I want to throw a can at are supposed to be providing me with "exceptional service"!
No, no. Alaska is horrible and ugly...every one stay away. It's dark, hotels are made of igloos. Bears live in neighborhoods. Keep out.
Can I go home now??
Top one was taken from my driveway, bottom one from my front porch.
Stunning!
We pack ours in dry cleaner bags in a fold-over rolling garment bag. The suits & formals actually travel better cotton Dockers and sundresses. We always send the wrinkly stuff out to be pressed. It really doesn't cost much and saves us from waiting to an iron or questionable repute.
That's funny, last time I saw him, he was standing next to you in a matching t-****!
Aaawww! Right back at ya!
I'm sorry about your DD. It is so hard to watch our kids struggle.
Don't stress too much about DS (easy to say, I know). Not all deer ticks carry the disease. We lived a few miles from Lyme, CT and pulled many, many ticks from ourselves, the kids, the dog. None of us ended up with Lyme Disease.
For those of you who buy pictures from shutters, how do you travel with them home so they don't bend? I'm wondering how we can bring back pictures from the Dolphin excursion and the litho we might get
Also, does someone have a link to the price list for packages from shutters? Last time we only bought one picture.
I read that post too about the sun, afternoon vs morning and started to think I would change our time but then I checked weather.com and there is not much of a difference in temperature from 10:00am - 3:00pm.
Tomorrow at 10:00am 90 degrees; feels like 99
Tomorrow at 3:00 pm 96 degrees; feels like 105
The difference between 99 and 105 is just plain HOT and hot is hot
Michelle
A) I'm guessing the traffic couldn't possibly be worse than Dallas traffic during the same rush hour traffic
B) I'm a Texan- I'm used to long drives all the time. Just saying it'd be awesome to take a drive to DL instead of Six Flags or a waterpark or something. LOL
Lucky you!
It is like driving North Dallas during rush hour or Houston! 
Happy 39th Anniversary Arlene and Rich!!!
'ing --- Hope you & Rich have a wonderful celebration today!!!
Its tax free weekend here in VA so I saved a bit of $$ by shopping today 
Got some great deals at Kohls on school clothes and clothes for DH and I but the best was at JCPenneys where I got 4 pair of jeans and 3 nice polos for DS12 and only spent $80 Hi everybody!! OMG just 10 more sleeps until we leave here for CA! I was in trip mode today and shopping too
I have a question and I know its been discussed on here before but I just want to clarify........DS is growing and has pretty much grown out of all his nicer dockers. He has one pair of khaki pants & 1 pair casual dress pants and one nice pair of dress pants. I plan to bring all three but since he is so adamant about NOT dressing up (except for formal and semi formal nights), he wants to wear his nice jeans to dinner on some nights during the cruise. I figurede on pirate night it would be acceptable but what about other nights? It seems I read on here that jeans are now acceptable on casual dining nights. Can anyone confirm this for me? He would be so much happier and so would DH and I since then we won't have to push him to "dress up" every night.
Hi everybody!! OMG just 10 more sleeps until we leave here for CA! I was in trip mode today and shopping too
I have a question and I know its been discussed on here before but I just want to clarify........DS is growing and has pretty much grown out of all his nicer dockers. He has one pair of khaki pants & 1 pair casual dress pants and one nice pair of dress pants. I plan to bring all three but since he is so adamant about NOT dressing up (except for formal and semi formal nights), he wants to wear his nice jeans to dinner on some nights during the cruise. I figurede on pirate night it would be acceptable but what about other nights? It seems I read on here that jeans are now acceptable on casual dining nights. Can anyone confirm this for me? He would be so much happier and so would DH and I since then we won't have to push him to "dress up" every night.
Happy Anniversary 
