Summer cold

An average cold I can handle but this one has been a doosy. I've been sick for over a week now and am only 75% normal.

Started out with the achy chills, then a soar throat, then the ear popping..... brought back so many painful memories of my youth, the dreaded ear infection! After 2 days of ear discomfort, Saturday the pain struck and I had hubby drive me to the GF hospital to get a prescription. While waiting in the er curtain bed I over heard the nurses complaining about stupid people getting a soar throat and ear pain and not going to their doctors and wasting their time in the er.... excuse me! I was so upset, my doc is only open 2 days a week otherwise I'd have went to him and not wasted my time going to the er just to get snubbed!

Turned out I have 2 infections in the one ear, an inner ear infection (which is normal for me) and an abscess in the outer ear next to the ear drum. Got a script for antibiotics, ear drops and T3's for pain.

Later Saturday, the cold progressed into a cough and sinus cold. Monday I woke up with my right eye glued shut with pink eye. Ivy got pink eye the week before and since I was the one washing her eye and giving her the eye drops I wasn't too surprised I got it, luckily we have left over eye drops. After a few days the eye looks and feels much better.

I'm feeling a bit better each day but the ear hasn't healed yet, it's almost there. It's doing lots of popping again, and I've lost half my hearing in it but not too much pain, also had some drainage from it this morning ( a good sign). Sinuses are draining too, and I only cough to remove phlem, so that is better too.

10 days this cold has lasted, if it wasn't for the ear infections, I'd be all clear by now but I guess it's better to get it all at once to get it all out of my system before school starts for the girls.

1 1/2 weeks till school starts! Ivy is excited and so is Anna! I hope Ivy can adjust to going school all day without too many problems, I know it will be hard on everyone to get up at 7 am to get her ready for the bus at 8am. But we shall try our best!

The Wedding

Ahh, the Wedding was Marvelous! It was small but very colourful and full of Hugs, Love and Smiles!

The Bride, my little Sister, Jen and her Bridesmaid, Stacey

The Groom, Murad, and his Best Man/Brother Nart.
The entrance to the ceremony, behind the hotel. Notice the Bestman and Bridesmaid waiting on either side of the arch and the flowergirls (Ivy and Anna) waiting on the lower steps.
Anna tossing her flower petals, she took her job very seriously! Uncle James and Baby Bella looking on.

Ivy doing an awesome job as flowergirl, (step, step, toss, step, step, toss....)
Then came BM Stacey and BM Nart
Our Handsome Daddy escorted the very beautiful Bride
Exchangeing of vows with a wonderful view of the lake, mountains and park.

Murad was so nervous that he dropped the ring! I thought is was cute, they both bent to pick it up without letting go of each others hand

The ring goes on...

and they kiss, awwwwe

Then the offical signing of their life together.

The Justice of the Peace annouces: Mr and Mrs D!!! Father and Mother of the Bride, also my parents :D

Little Baby Cam slept through the whole ceremony.

Baby Bella looking cute as ever!

Anna decieded to clean up the petals she had dropped, she managed to pick most up, then accedently dropped them in the hallway, lobby and elevator of the hotel, lol!

Uncle Troy's Family was late to the ceremony but made it in time for photos. We were takeing pictures of the kids all together when the Bride and Groom started posing behind them.(L-R) Anna, Ivy, Cam, David, Danny and Sylvia, I missed getting Bella in this shot.
My parents poseing with my brother Rob, baby Cam and GF Jamie.

The Cake: Moose for Canadian Bride and Camel for Groom from Jordan!

The next morning, the family got together for breakfast and the Newleyweds opened their gifts, this is them with my gift, I cross-stitched a celtic heart with their names and the wedding date below.

Later that evening they hopped a plane to Turkey for a 3 week honeymoon and Jen will meet Murad's parents for the first time in person. Why Turkey instead of Jordan? I have no clue.

We all had a most wonderful time, the hotel suite was gorgeous, some of us even went for a swim (twice for my little family) I got to visit with my Step Sis, who I hadn't seen since my Wedding (7 years ago) And this was the first time all 4 siblings (Me, James, Rob and Jen) got together with all out kids and partners!

Busy with Excitment!

We're going to the Chapel and My lil' sister is gonna get married, Going to the Chapel of loooooove!

Yup, the weekend is here that my Sister Jen and her fiance Murad will be getting Married!!! It won't be in a chapel but I do love that song. The ceremony will be outside in the hotel's garden http://www.covelakeside.com/ And I (along with most of my extended family) will be spending the night! Whooo Woooooo!!

My Girls are flower girls, they are tickled pink! Ivy says she want to be the bride and was quite offended when I told her Aunty Jen is the bride, she is the one getting married but Ivy was soon happy when I told her she gets to throw flowers at everyone! LOL

Besides the wedding, we have been hiding from the heat, barely going outside during the day, we played in the creek a few days:

Mike spent most of the time moving rocks, trying to make a swimming hole but mostly just made some nice rapids, LOL!

stressful, sicky week

Oh my, has it been a few stress filled weeks. First Ivy , Anna and I came down with another cold. My menstruating cycles are so out of wack, Health nurse started me back on birth control pill and I'm having a hard time adjusting. My Parents house was threatened from 2 sides by two separate forest fires. My sisters wedding is in 2 weeks, and I'm no where done making the wedding present. My garden is full of weeds, More weeds then veggies. Hubby is working late most days and this is his first full weekend off in ages. Anna Had a Doctors with the Genetic councilors, she has to have more blood work.

It all seem to come at once....Humph....

Japanese Dance

Phew! The weekend is over!

I am positively exhausted after the week of babysitting, walking in the parade and dancing in the polyester Kimono, and helping with In-law's party. It was a fun weekend but I'm so glad it only happens once a year!

Mike only took pictures of the parade and I'm hoping K (MIL) will e-mail some of the pics she took. And of course everyone forgot to take pictures at the party.

Anyhoo, here is our part of the parade, and yup that's me, the big blue with red sash, not very flattering but who cares, it was fun! Ivy is wearing blue with pink sash.

Here are some shots of the cousins:

Sylvia
Ivy and Danny, absorbed in the TV

These two love to pose! I said to turn around so I can take their picture and Bam, out came the models!

babysitting

Why am I so nice? How do I get scammed into things I really do not want to do?

Well, maybe that is being too much of a Drama Queen! lol

I am babysitting my young niece, Sylvia, and nephew, Danny, this week during the day, 5am till 3:30pm! Their little Brother David(18 months) is in the hospital with the Mom (M) because he is underweight and the Doc wants to observe him, run tests and force feed him via a feeding tube through the nose. The Dad (T) is working in GF, so I get the joy/pain of babysitting the 3 & 5 year olds.

The kids are fairly good, they do fall asleep on the sofas when they first get here and only wake up when my girls get up. But after 3 days of being here and it raining mostly, all 4 kids are getting bored and the novelty of "Auntie's house" is wearing off. They are starting to push each other's buttons, bickering, complaining, tattling etc. etc.

Today is almost over, then we just have to get through tomorrow....which will be a loooong day as T will be going to Trail to pick up M and David after work, well into the evening.... Luckily Mike will be home at diner time to help!

Well that's enough complaining for now, I wonder how much fussing they'll do when I tell them to start cleaning up.... :S

Summer has begun!

And so has the summer break from school, this is my first summer break as a Mother and I would like to formally apologise to my parents.

I am truly sorry for all the screaming, rough housing, fighting, crying, destroying, complaining, headaches, bickering, back talking and snivelling that you had to endure from my siblings and me.

This has only been the first week! How and why has things changed from last year? One year of Ivy being away from the family for just a few hours a day has changed me, her and her sister! Those few hours gave me a break, sure Anna had her moments of brattyiness but those moments were few between. This week and breaks between those moments are few between...almost non-existing! Ivy is behaving herself for the most part but she/we just have to look at Anna sideways and the screeching, bellowing, tears start! AARRRGGG!

Is it her age/stage? Is she jealous? Is Ivy doing thing without me knowing? Is she not getting enough sleep/food/attention? or is all of those things combined?

Whatever the answer is, I hope to find it soon or Miss Anna will be soon moving to Timbuktu!