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Well, for those curious–my rash (PUPPS, or whatever it may be) does seem to be healing.  It seems to have stopped spreading and is definitely less itchy. It did make it just down onto my right wrist, but that was pretty much the extent.  Now it looks a little more like tiny pin prick scabs and dry skin.  Which sounds really gross, but it’s much better than it was.  So, if you’ve been praying for me, thank you!

I mentioned yesterday that I was gone earlier this month–and it happened to be a GORGEOUS day.  So, Tim, being the fun, awesome Dad that he is–bought the kids a bigger pool to play in and even set them up with a picnic lunch outside.  They LOVED it.

See?  How adorable is that!?!

Earlier this month I drove over to Amery to Holly’s house to meet up with Stacy and Jen.  It’s our 20 year class reunion year and, while that didn’t sound super enticing for me (ok, in all seriousness it totally stresses me out) we thought it would be fun to just get together with our group of girlfriends. Tonya couldn’t make it down from Canada, but the rest of us drove to meet at Holly’s new house.  We had a great time visiting for the day.  We went for a walk down the state trail, got ice cream cones at an adorable shoppe in town, enjoyed the grand tour of Holly’s new digs, and then finished off the evening by going out to eat at a pizzeria in town.  It was so much fun!  And… I only took 2 pictures the whole day. Ha!  Here they are:

I would note that I did not, in any way, tell her how to pose… haha!  That girl keep us on our toes and laughing…

Summer vacation is full swing here!  We’ve made it through one full week of summer bliss.  Well, actually it was a tad chilly here most of the week, so most of the outdoor things they had been dreaming of weren’t quite as enticing, but they still had fun.  Chloe’s summer list is so funny. She has very specific things she wants to do this summer, some of which include: make ice cream sandwiches, have 100 sleepovers, go shorts shopping, watch 3 movies outside.  🙂

One of my summer goals is to learn how to play tennis (and by “play” I mean volley the ball to each other nicely back and forth).  We have a tennis court down the street so we resurrected our rackets and bought some new tennis balls.  We played 3 different days this week, to varying success… and we’ve already lost 5 balls. I know.  FIVE.  Sheesh!  But I do have 4 kids all playing with the balls at the same time, so some are bound to go missing.  But we are getting better.  It’s going to take a while before we can actually hit it back and forth more than just once or twice, but I’m having a good time.

In other random news, I seem to have a rash on my hands again… that is acting a lot like my beloved friend, PUPPS again.  It’s so strange!  And no.  A resounding NO, I am not pregnant.  This happened to me once before, do you remember?  I just looked back in my old posts, and I apparently had to go into Urgent Care to have it looked at about 2 years ago.  I did go in to a minute clinic this weekend and she coudn’t figure it out.  And 2 years, they couldn’t tell me what it was either!  So… I have a very itchy random rash on my hands, that I’m hoping goes away soon.  I tell you, if this is PUPPS, I must be like the .0000005% of women to suffer with it while NOT being pregnant!  Crazy. So, now I wait. Hopefully it will run its course quickly.

I might have said this before, but I had 5ths disease in High School and I remember after it went away it would resurface on the front of my thighs when I would run really hard.  My theory (probably quite far fetched) is that I have some of the PUPPS virus just sitting dormant in me and I’ve stirred it up by losing weight.  That’s probably not how the body works, but I’m going with that explanation to make me feel better.  😉

Tune back in tomorrow for some pictures!  Don’t worry, it will be of the kids, not of my PUPPS.  Haha!

That’s it folks!  Done with 1st grade and 4th grade!

And since I’m a sucker for side by side comparisons… here you go!  First and last day of school 2018-2019!

This was a big year for Chloe.  She discovered her LOVE of reading, and started to work more diligently on spelling better.  Of course, Josiah has continued to read just as much, but he already knew he loved reading.  😉

Our Spring Recital was a smashing success (of course!).  Chloe and Josiah both played very well.  I accidentally didn’t turn on all the stage lights for the first recital (oops!) so the picture turned out a tad dark, but I know now which switches to flip.

Josiah and Chloe have started to come with me to help set up which is proving to be very helpful.  I love it that they are at an age where they can do so much!

I did have 4 Seniors this year–I always get so nervous when I need to make a special speech, but it seemed to go just fine.