Time to Wine Thursday

Well, this week hasn't been too bad. Last Friday my husband and I started a little yard project. So, we spent the weekend shoveling dirt and rock from the front yard and hauling it to the back. It was hard work and it was hot, but I'm not complaining about it because I'm glad we did it. The yard looks better now. I will post before and after pics as soon as we get the final few things done.

My one horrible experience came when I was out getting shrubs for the yard. I took my daughter with me to the Plant Shed. We got the shrubs we needed and picked out some flowers. We were admiring all of the bees and butterflies all over the zinnias. Well, apparantly, one of the bees took a liking to Claire's pink shirt and crawled in it. Of course, we didn't know this until she got in the car and sat back to buckle up!

I was backing the car up so I could drive it over to load up our stuff. She started screaming, "My back! My back!" I thought she burned herself on a hot part of the car seat or something, but she just kept yelling. Then she said "A bee bit me!" I threw the car in park and got her out. I took of her shirt. (Which she was NOT happy about!) and shook it out. She kept saying, "It flew away, put my shirt back on!" Well, it hurt really bad. The bees were really big...not your average little honey bees. She just kept crying. I felt so bad for her. She had never been stung by anything like that before.

I have a first aid kit in the van. My minivan has a little "trunk" area in the back that I can raise up and there are 3 shallow compartments. That's where I keep the first aid kit. Of course, we had just come from Lowe's and there were heavy stepping stones and large bags of mulch sitting on it so I couldn't open it! This entire time she's crying and people are looking at us like we're crazy! I started pulling bags of mulch out and heaving stepping stones off of the trunk lid. I finally got to the first aid kit and discovered that I didn't have anything in it for insect bites! I did have an antiseptic wipe that I gave her and that made it feel better.

The up side: she's not allergic to bee stings!

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Well, this week couldn't have been as bad as last week. Since I didn't join the Tirade last week, let me tell you about it here. Last Monday my husband's car broke down at work (40 mi. away) Long story short...

5 days in the shop=a $1400 repair

hubby's car in the shop = no car for me

no car for me = one unhappy little girl that couldn't go to gymnastics!

We ended up renting a car for one day which was a whole other mess to deal with. And to top it all off, my husband was in a training class all last week so he couldn't leave early or work from home like he normally would be able to do. He barely got to the rent a car place before it closed! Not a good week at all!

Ok, on to this week....

I can't get my spacing to work on this blog! Sorry if everything is smushed together!

My daughter has been extremely difficult this week. Throwing fits, slamming doors, whining, talking back, you name it! It's like she going through the terrible twos again! How old is she?? Almost 7!!!

My son, who is 11, hurt his shoulder somehow. A couple weeks ago he was playing a board game at the table with my husband. He reached across the table and his shoulder popped really loud. He complained about it off and on, but I didn't really think much about it. Well, this weekend, it got worse and he could hardly move it so I took him to the doctor. I thought he tell us it was a pulled muscle or something. Nope, he ordered an MRI! So, next Monday I have to take him for an MRI. He is actually quite excited about it. Why? Because he's a baseball player and that's the test all the major league baseball players always have to have when they get hurt! So, now he feels like part of that club or something! Of course, those players usually get hurt playing ball,

not Risk!

And the last thing I have to whine about today is my computer keyboard. I guess I need to get a new one. Yesterday the c, v, z, and x keys wouldn't work. Sometimes they did, sometimes they didn't. It was really annoying! I had to creatively word some emails yesterday morining because I couldn't use any words that had those letters in them! As you can see, they are working fine this morning which makes me put off buying the new keyboard one

more day!

The good thing is I got a good night's sleep last night and got up early this morning. I have already gotten so much stuff done!