I will be back to blogging shortly.

Life just got a bit crazy for a couple of weeks. My aunt was rushed to the ER recently, then to ST Joseph’s in Savannah. Long story made short; they thought she had a stroke but after many tests (blood work, CT, MRI, EEG & lumbar puncture) they determined she was suffering from viral encephalitis. It made it’s way to her brain and caused stroke-like symptoms. She lost 3 days of memory that she will likely never regain. She can’t remember how to do certain things.. like driving. She’s been home and on antibiotics but our family is keeping a very close eye on her. One of the things that happened during this time (we’re not sure if that’s what caused the illness or if it’s a symptom at this point) was that she had a seizure. We spent several days in Savannah with her.

I’ve been trying to play catchup, and while I’m definitely making dents, I’d rather be drilling gigantic holes.

I’ve still got quite a bit to catch up on. But I’m hoping to have everything tackled and under control by mid-week. That includes fixing the big “boo boo” I made on the blog of one of my wonderful clients. ..sigh. So wish I was familiar with Network Solutions Wordpress hosting. I made a small mistake (or so I thought) of adding in a piece of code I shouldn’t have (and still not sure why I did that exactly). That mistake resulted in a syntax error, but it’s preventing us from accessing Wordpress so I can’t log in to correct it, and without FTP access (or any access to those files otherwise), I’m afraid the only thing to do is reinstall Wordpress entirely. I made the backups, now I’m just waiting for the go-ahead. I wish you knew how horrible I feel about this.. and embarrassed too. :/

As I wait for the baked chicken I made for dinner to finish cooking, I decided to upload a few of the photos from the festival this weekend. While it was exhausting, it was also a lot of fun. The only things I attended myself were the street dance, fireworks and the airshow. It rained off and on all weekend so I didn’t really want to frolic around the arts and crafts show or the carnival — it was pretty soggy out there from what I heard.

Here’s a warning though.. lots of pictures to follow the first few (Blue Angels, parachute fellow, and some of my nephews) , click to view the rest of the entry to view them all. These aren’t the best photos of the Blue Angels by any means, but heck.. they’re hard to keep up with at their speed, ha ha!

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Guilty as charged. Behind again, on this blog and catching up.. which I haven’t gotten a chance to do yet. There’s just been a lot going on and I’ve been working a lot.. A LOT.. which is good, and I love it.

This weekend is going to be packed full too, so I’m trying my hardest to complete all of my design work by late tonight. This weekend is the Onion Festival. Friday night we’re taking the boys to the fire works show. We’ve decided against the street dance though — too many people, and it would be hard to keep up with the boys since they tend to run off from all of us at times. My absolute favorite part of this festival is the air show. We’re going to that Saturday. I can’t wait to see the Blue Angels. They’ve been practicing some this week, so it’s getting me super excited about Saturday. I’m not sure what events they have for the air show other than that. Usually they have the stealth flyover but yeah, not sure that’s on this year’s schedule. I’ll have a look at the website later today.

I bought some furniture from an antique store a couple of months ago, so my dad went with me yesterday to pick it up. I can’t believe they didn’t have someone there to help us with that, especially that chest. It’s solid wood. Even the smaller two top drawers are heavy. I noticed some pain in my lower back shortly after we did it, which makes me think I did something to it when we moved it. My back is still sore today, but not nearly as bad thankfully.

With all of this beautiful sunshine we’ve had lately, I decided to change out my bedding. The previous bedding wasn’t really that dark, in fact it was really bright colors — pink, aqua, lime green, yellow & purple (plaid quilt set). I just wanted something that wasn’t really so bold. My mom bought a really lovely set by Simply Shabby Chic for me, so I changed it out to that. I’ll post a picture below, but it’s a little dark so I’m not so sure it’s going to do this bedding justice!

I need to get back to work. I have a lot on the agenda today. Hopefully after this weekend I’ll have time to finally catch up with everyone!

Sorry. I’ve been busy. Very busy.

Finally fought off both bronchitis and acute sinusitis (the sinusitis resulted in acute left and right middle otitis) after a visit to the ER and 7 days of antibiotics. Relapsed for a couple of days, fighting off a bad sore throat, weakness and coughing. I do feel better now, but I’m noticing that I’m still having a lot of wheezing and coughing — could be the pollen, I guess?

This week has been spent with Tyler, Landon and Trent — Spring break. Fun times.. well, not so much at times.

Busy with designs.. whipping them out as fast as I can. Trying to keep up.. so far, so good.. I think.

A little sad. The family is selling my grandma and grandpa B’s house. So strange walking through there now. Different wall color.. different floors.. no furniture… nothing that connects that house to our family anymore.. the memories are still there of course. Going back there doesn’t feel “right” somehow. Life goes on though. You have to move on.

I’m going to take this entire weekend to get fully caught up. That’s my plan anyway. Whether or not I actually meet that goal.. guess we’ll see!

Weather has been rough today. Tornado watches, severe thunderstorm warnings… Ahh! My favorite time of year.

I must go. I’ll update better soon. And catch up with all of you. Promise!