Starting off with a BANG! (sort of)

At my house the 4th of July is a BIG deal. A BIG, BIG deal. This year will be our 10th year of hostessing a 4th of July BBQ and celebration for my friends and family. Each year the guest list and menu change, and as the children get older or we add different ones to the mix I come up with different activities. Everyone seems to have a good time and relaxes. Everyone except me. I truely love holding this BBQ but being the Queen of procrastination and all I usually am stressed doing last minute things. And EVERY year I think to myself, WHY didn't I start all this a month ago!

Well guess what? Yesterday was a month from the 4th of July! And I started my preparations. Well..........sort of......but I did get a few important details taken care of. For starters as I was thinking/daydreaming about the 4th I realized that it is on a Sunday this year. No biggie right, except I WORK on Sundays. oY! not good! So I thought I would see if I could switch shifts this year and work the morning shift. It took a lot of nerve to ask, but I did, and yes! I can so.... yeah! I also made my guest list and menu and starting jotting my to-do list, to - buy list, and great ideas list down. Whew! That took a lot of ink!

Today I am going to take some more action and hopefully make some napkin rings for banding the silverware and napkins together with. I think I am going with denim this year. I thought about adding red star buttons but on second thought I don't think I will. I will leave them pretty generic and that way I can reuse them for different events, and not just the 4th of July!

I will be posting pictures and blogging about my progress, if for no other reason than to hold me accountable. I am hoping for a relaxing stress free day! Even if I do have to work the morning of!

Have you started thinking about the 4th yet? It tends to sneak up on us!

Making a Full Recovery!

And no, I am not talking about recovering a piece of furniture! LOL!

This Sunday morning landed me straight into the ER with uncontrollable pain in my throat. I truly thought I might die if I had to eat, drink, or breathe. That breathing thing, well, turns out it is kind of important. The doctor looked me over and said well nothing looks too bad but your blood pressure is pretty elevated so something must be wrong. It is then that my husband looked at him and with a straight face said "Find something wrong with her and fix it", "before it kills me!" Thanks honey! So the doctor did a strep test and yep it was positive! Now here is the thing, he gave me two pain pills, and as I laid there waiting for the test to come back, they did NOTHING, nothing to ease the pain at all. So then he gave me a anti-flamatory shot and still it did very little to ease the pain. But eventually it started to ease and I got to go home, I spent all day laying on the couch and taking my pills, sleeping, eating popsicles, taking some more pills, the pain was unbearable. This morning when my hubby woke up I was in the fetal position on the couch and crying. He called the doctor back and told him that while noone knows why this is hurting me so badly I was not going to make it through the day without some more pain medicine. (He only gave me enough for one day.) So to make a long story a little shorter this time, the kind Doctor told me to take Motrin with the new pain meds and wahlah I feel like I just might live!

Of course, the pain medicine makes me nauseated and sleepy and itchy,:

Friday: Getting sick, had too much other TEENAGER stress to deal with to care much
Saturday: Knew I had something wrong with my throat but thought I would deal
Sunday: Headed to the ER at 7:00 am, slept most of the day
Monday: Better, and will be crafting again soon! I have not crafted anything in days and the only thing in this house that I have fluffed happens to be my pillows!

So I hope that eventually soon I will be back to my normal self again soon. I have missed bloggy land so very much!

Is it normal to have strep hurt this badly? I am not a fan of pain but I usually handle it pretty well.

Just a little something about nothing....

My goal was to post every day and it has been like 3 days, I think I am suffering from project idea overload, mix that in with the busy weekend, lots of good valentining and a sortamajorbutIdon'twannawhineaboutit headache and I have nothing to show! So sad... however, little man is crabby and ready for bed, or maybe just his parents are ready for him to be in bed. And I am gonna try to get something fabulous done tonight, or just something done!

In other news, I have reached my 10th  follower, to be exact my 11th! So WHOO HOO! I am planning a giveaway and hope to have it up by tommorow! Yippee! If you are a follower THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! And if not there is no time like the present (wink wink)!

A new blog!

After a whole lotta thought I have decided to make a new blog to fit in with what has been up with me lately, I have been crafting up a storm and have also been reading a TON of craft blogs. In fact reading craft blogs and crafting is all I have been doing as of late. So I thought I would have a go at creating my own. I sew, paint, make jewelry, scrapbook and do lots of home decor stuff. So what a fun idea to show off all of that! So please forgive me for abondoning my old blogs and follow along with this one. When I reach just 10 followers I have a fun giveaway so please make my day and join up.

Thanks,
Kelly