Well yesterday I had a lazy day to recover from the weekend - but today I am going to pay for it.  My house needs some major help.  It amazes me how much damage we can do in one day. 

The weekend was good.  The wedding was very nice and I am very happy for my cousin Casandra and her husband Tim.  There was a lot of family there so it was a bit like a small-scale family reunion. 

Why is it then when I have so much to do and get done I find myself unfocused and seemingly unable to get myself motivated to do all those things.  My list of things "to do" just seems so overwhelming that it is difficult for me to actually get started on it.

I'm not sure where this summer is going but it is quickly flying by.  I can hardly believe in a few days it will be July.  This weekend my bestest cuz is getting married - yep on the 4th of July.  I am a bridesmaid so we will be heading about 4 hours north on Thursday evening.  I am excited.  It should be a great time.  I am so happy for her.  Plus I haven't even seen her littlest boy yet - so that will be an extra treat.  Plus her brother and his family is back from NC - so that will be good to see them.  It will be a great weekend of celebrating.

I hope my Aleigh will be feeling better by then.  She got into some poison ivy when she was climbing a tree.  She completely broke out on Saturday and it was awful.  Mostly on her face.  She was so miserable.  I took her to the Dr. first thing Monday morning and she got a steroid shot plus an oral steroid to get her through.  Her Dr. said "So if anyone ever asks - she is very, very, very allergic to poison ivy"  She is doing much better - but when she woke up on Monday morning her face was so swollen that she could not even open one of her eyes.  Her temperant through the whole thing has been amazing though.  When she saw herself in the mirror she told her Dad - "Look Dad, I am a pirate - Aye Aye Mateys"  After her Dr. Appt. we had to wait about 20 minutes at Wal-Mart to get her prescription and everyone was stopping and talking to me and giving me their home remedies.  The best was this one lady told me to go get some bags of frozen cut up rhubarb and rub it all over the ivy.  She said she is highly allergic and it always helps her when she gets it.  I didn't try it b/c the steroid is working so well.  Also people kept saying to Aleigh "Don't itch it honey, otherwise it will spread"  Just so you know - that is untrue.   
"Once the oil has been removed, the rash from poison oak or poison ivy is not contagious. Even the oozing blisters are not contagious, although they look like they should be. Because new blisters can keep appearing over the course of a week, people assume that touching the rash causes it to spread, or that the ooze itself is responsible for the spreading. The fluid that fills the blisters is one's own serum, not the poisonous oil."
The main reason to keep them from scratching is to allow them to heal properly and not keep scratching them back open.  Anyhoo, I hope she is mainly cleared up by the weekend so she is not miserable as we travel & are away.

Well, we went to the St. Louis Cardinals game on Saturday and it was awesome.  Craig's name got drawn at work and that is how he got the tickets.  The company's insurance allows them to use the suite every so often and so we had greats seats, loads of good food, and an a/c room we could relax in if we got too hot.  It was awesome.  Craig said - "When else can you sit and watch a ball game while eating a piece of double decker chocolate cake?"  Plus the Cardinals won and Pujols hit 2 home runs.  It was a great game.

For once, and I know you are not going to believe me, I was glad to see Monday arrive and start a new week.  Last week was just really busy and tinged with sadness b/c two friends at church each lost their dads.  One of those "dads" played at my wedding & was a close family friend of my husbands family.  Losing Craig's parents way too early has made me very sensitive to those that lose theirs. 

In Today's Blog

• Story time at the library
  
• A fun playdate
  
• The Homecoming
  
• Best Commercial
• Father's Day
  

Story time at the library

Last week I took Aleigh to story time at the library.  Through out the summer the activities are geared for school age kids so I dropped off the the twins at grandmas.  They were doing a special cup-cake making day.  They had some 4-H girls come in and demonstrate making different "doggie" cupcakes.  They were really cute.  It was a Schnauzer dog cupcake.