HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Well, this birthday was most un-birthdayish. Not from lack of trying, just, sometimes, that's how the cards fall.

The day was nothing special until Larry came home from work. I ran to Costco, before dinner and Ben's Eagle Board of Review. While I was at Costco I got a phone call from Larry saying that he was running Joseph up to the ER because he had closed his pocket knife on his finger. (Joseph got his whittling chip card at Cub Scout day camp two days earlier - that means he knows how to safely use a pocket knife. The cut of the finger means the bishop or cub master has to tear off a corner. Four corners and you're out, technically.)

So, I went to the Board of Review, TOTALLY CLUELESS, and Larry dealt with the ER.

Rachel went too. While they were driving, she recorded Joseph's crying on her cell phone to show all her friends comforted Joseph and applied pressure to the wound.

I really like Sacred Heart Children's ER. They do good work there. It's worth the extra 15 minute drive, in my opinion.

Just two stitches, but cut to the bone. Awesome! Not awesome - no lake swimming and no more swimming lessons! Bummer for my fish, Joseph!

Meanwhile, at the church:

The Board of Review people - Larry Lawton, Phil Sokolowski, Alan Jones, Ray Welsh, Ben, Duncan Latitnen (sp) and a very nice scouter man.

He passed!

On Saturday night (July 11th) we celebrated my birthday:

Yay! New water bottles! What I really want (a Janome or Necchi or Pfaff, a Canon SLR, and my house to sell) I can't afford and I have everything I need.

I have what money cannot buy and do not lack.

Besides needing to clear the camera lens, I love my little people.

Every year Larry gets me an icecream cake. He always puts something funny on it. This time it says 24th birthday instead of 42nd. Haha!