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Last day of school!

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Last day of kindergarten and third grade!! 😳 and 😭

Owen agreed to let us walk him to the bus stop since it was the last day of school.

Katie’s turn:

My last day of freedom!

Papa and grannie bought the kids balloons to celebrate when they got off the bus!

Before—a kindergartner and third grader:

After—a first grader and fourth grader:

First day and last day:

Charlie’s down four teeth.

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So one afternoon I noticed that the whole right side of Charlie’s face was swollen. A quick Google basically said you need to get to the vet immediately so I got an appointment for the next morning. Turns out it was something wrong with one of her teeth and we needed to schedule surgery. Estimated cost? $600-900. Just let that sink in.

The soonest opening they had was two weeks out so they gave her shots for pain and swelling. Thankfully they worked well and the swelling went down and she seemed to be getting back to normal.

Fast-forward two weeks. A tooth extraction is routine but I was still nervous. And it sucks because she seems perfectly fine now. No swelling. Eating great. Back to normal. So part of me thinks why spend $1000 on something that seems to not be a problem. But we know the problem is still there…

So…once they got in there and saw what was going on they really needed to remove some other teeth, too. She ended up having FOUR teeth removed…plus she needed extra tests and X-rays due to a heart murmur and surprise (new) kidney issues.

So $1500 later (let that one sink in, too) I have a happy kitty who doesn’t seem to be in any pain and is really loving and cuddly. (She’s always been cuddly but today has been even more so—I don’t even want to go to bed because I’m loving the cuddle so much..and also, if I’m being honest, I still have a fear that something is going to go wrong and she’s not going to make it and I’ll have missed out on this great cuddle time.)

I also got to see her drunk on pain meds. It was cute.

But this face!

Now I get to figure out how the hell to pay for this.

Our Gurnee Garden

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They had flowers in these raised beds but we decided to put in something useful… so we’ll have basil, a few varieties of tomatoes, jalapeños, rosemary, onions, and Owen’s cabbage he brought home from school that we brought back from the brink of death (he left it in his backpack for a week).

My view for five hours today.

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Water park, Day 1: Opening Day

👍🏻 Pros?

💦Two miles from home.
💦Lots for the kids to do.
💦It took Katie five minutes to find a friend.
💦The kids are both old enough to go out on their own.

👎🏻 Cons?

💦 Lots of people.
💦 The lounge chairs are not comfortable.
💦 Not nearly as relaxing as the Lorton Valley pool.

I took one of the very last seats in the shade and kept busy doing work (gotta love being able to run most of my business from a phone) for five hours while the kiddies played.

I’m such a sport.

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I had a friend suggest two lipstick colors to mix together. When you do this, it usually turns out pretty good. However. This time it ended absolutely disgusting and it was dubbed SeneSlug. 🙂

I couldn’t go through the rest of my day with that so I fixed it.

Field day with Owen!

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Amazingly, Owen wanted me to volunteer for field day…so I jumped at it! The original Field Day got postponed due to rain—it had stormed the night before and the fields were under water so they postponed it a day. It was a beautiful day—but the fields were still a little wet. They had changed up how they did field day, so instead of actually having to run some of the events, we just got to follow along with the class and kind of help out here and there. It was perfect!