Long Lost Relations

Every Family has its black sheeps, well mine reappeared this week. My youngest sister Chrissy(I am the oldest of 3 girls and 1 boy), found me on facebook the other night (Why didn't I think of that). The last time I saw her I was pregant-(my memory),not pregant-(her memory) with my third child. I remember sitting on the front porch as her and my other sister drove up (she had been gone a while) and I asked her why she had stayed away so long. No answer. I don't remember the rest of the conversation, but it was uneventful and as they got in the car to leave I told her to stay in contact better, so we would know were she was even if she didn't want to talk to anyone. Two weeks later my sister Robin called me and said she couldn't get ahold of Chrissy for a few days and had finally called some guy that Chrissy had been with and told him that if she didn't call in a few hours she was going to the police and have him arrested for kidnapping. Chrissy called her right back and told her she was in the Middle East for vacation and would be back in two weeks. That was thirteen years ago.

Both our parents passed away thinking they were going to meet her in heaven, because they just couldn't believe that she would not have at least let them know she was alive.

The other night, I was on the computer typing up my notes from the girls scout leader meeting and posting updates on the website I had made, and after logging out of there and getting ready to shut down the computer for the night, I checked my email for the last time and there were four messages asking for Christina to be added to my freinds on facebook. Seems she has been in Israel all this time, married with three boys.

Footnote: My mother and I had tried many ways of looking for Chrissy, including signing up on the search websites and all were a deadend to the last address in Michigan before she left.

Good News, Bad News

OK, so on August 22nd, I woke up at 4am and could barley move. I had pain in my neck , shoulder and hand on my left side. Needless to say, I called off work and called the doctor to see if I could get into see her. No go there, as it was not her Saturday to have office hours. I took a vicodin from Jeff's medicine and felt good to go the next day.

Now flash forward to Thursday, September 10th, 4am (don't know why these things happen at this time) awaken with major pain again, this time was not a work day, so call the doctor again and went in to she her, got some muscle relaxers and pain meds and told to take it easy for the weekend. On Monday, still no better, missed two days of work knowing that I was scheduled for the following day and not felling better. Tuesday evening had an MRI with contrast. Results came back today, I have torn my rotator cup, have two tears in the muscle and my neck vertebra are messed up. Need to see an ortho doctor and have physical therapy and will probably be off work for a couple more weeks and hopefully not need surgery. And me with no short term disability insurance.

Life really knows how to knock you down a peg or two when you least expect it.

First Day of School 2009

Today was the first day of school around here. Everyone was very excited to see which of their friends they would have in class together.

So yesterday, I took the kids up to my brother's farm to gather tomatoes and peppers. While there we also went to the local cemeteries so I could take pictures of the family gravestones. We then went for ice cream and to Lake Huron so the kids could walk in the water.

Unfortunately, the area was not dredged yet and they found out that they needed to wade knee deep in mud to get to the waters edge. Allard came out covered in mud after reaching the water only to find that the mud was deeper in the water. Evie got stuck by this picture and Allard had to help her so she could turn around and come out.

Swim Meet #2

On Thursday I got to see Lizzy swim the backstroke at her meet. This is the first year that the coach has asked her to swim this event. I had told her that I thought this was one of the easiest strokes to do. As of this year, she has been swimming in the 100 Fly, 100 Backstroke and the 400 relay. She is really hoping to get her letter this year and order her jacket. So far her team is 1-1.

On a really annoying note, I have been running the swim team website since last year, and it seems that last week my site was hacked and they put a virus on it. I have been emailing the web company every couple days, but am not getting any response back. The live chat people said they take care of things like these on a first come basis, but I should think that they would have contacted me by now. I really don't see why someone would think that a girls swim team would need to be hacked. I never put pictures on my sites, only written words, so they must have looked at the name of the site and thought they would see swimsuits galore.

Happy Birthday Evie

My baby is not such a baby anymore. Yesterday Evie turned 9. It doesn't seem that long ago that we brought her home from the hospital. She was our little suprise and so sweet we knew she was a keeper. She had some of the neighbor childs over for swimming and hot dogs, and on sunday we will take 10 of her girlfriends to CJ Barrymoores, which for you California people would be like Boomers. All she asked for this year was her party and a skateboard, so I took her to Kmart and got the board last evening and she got to ride it until dark.

Scout Camp

This week both Evie and Allard went to scout camp. Evie will be back on Friday and Allard will be home on Saturday. Allard has been doing alot of camping with his troop alone, but this is the first time Evie has been gone more then one night. I of course, forgot to take the camera with me when we dropped Allard off.

Here we are loaded up and ready to go

Waiting to Check In

Unpacked and bed is made.

Locks of Love

Evie Before:

And now some lucky person can have their own

naturally highlighted wig.

Evie has been wanting to donate her hair to Locks of Love for a very long time. Today she finally got the chance.