Marie is 18

This poor girl!  Last year, on her 17th birthday, we were packing up the house all around her.  She also was in the midst of a month where she couldn’t taste anything!

This year – it’s her 18th birthday – and we are up to our ears in VBS and other craziness!

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Daddy took her to Silver Bay Seafood for a lovely dinner.

We will celebrate as a family on the weekend.

July happenings

While some of the girls and I were at VBS, Marie and Nan went out for dinner.

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I was a leader for one of the groups, and Tabitha helped in another one.  Johanna started to help in crafts, but was then asked to help with preschool.

Katriel was a camper.

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Also this week – Nigel and I had an information day for students at USCUpstate.

And Katriel ended up with a bug bite so inflamed that we went to Urgent Care.

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True story.
The doctor walked into our room – 9:15PM and says, “You’re a few days early!”
Sure enough, we had had Katriel at the same Urgent Care LAST July the night after we moved here for the exact same issue.

Katriel’s perspective it is the same bug that is after her, and it found her again after looking all year long.