Happy 4th of July weekend! I can't believe another holiday has come and gone.The 4th always seems to come too early in the summer months. We spent the holiday weekend watching lots of fireworks and attending lots of events. On Saturday night we traveled to an outdoor concert with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and fireworks afterwards. We went with a group of our neighbors and enjoyed a picnic dinner together. Sunday we ended up at Matt and Di's house with about 30+other people. We ate too much food as usual and had fun in the pool and hot tub. Monday night we sat and watched the fireworks display in nearby Columbia and then joined Scott's boy scout troop in cleaning up the park afterwards. What a nasty job. We are all back home after midnite and taking very hot showers. Before the fireworks, we stopped into the local movie theater and took Allison and Tom to see Cars 2.

And just when I thought things couldn't get any crazier last week, it did. My neck has started to really bother me from the car accident. I looked up all my symptoms and seems that I have a grand case of whiplash. I finally got a prescription for PT and started therapy on Friday. Right after my appointment, it was time to pick up Allison from work. She missed a day of drivers training so she could work at the roller blade rink helping out with summer camp. I found her in the office after work with a bag of ice on her wrist! She had fallen backwards onto her wrist. We then spent the rest of the afternoon at a workman's comp clinic getting xrays and a wrist splint. Thank goodness it is not broken, but then she fell on the same wrist while cleaning up the park after the fireworks display! Sounds like a Stacey thing! She is scheduled for therapy and a doctor's appointment on Thursday afternoon. Thank goodness Tom has a somewhat flexible schedule and can take her. I had to schedule all my PT appointments after work and on Friday when I am off as I am just crazy busy with patients.

Last week was a scheduling nightmare for drop off and pick ups, but it all worked out in the end.
That was because Tom was in Great Britain. He had left on Saturday and was supposed to come home on Friday. Instead, he got stuck in an airline strike with United Airlines at Heathrowe and they postponed his flight to a "possible July 3rd" departure. He decided to find alternative routes and flew to Montreal Canada and from there took a small propeller plane to DC-Dulles airport. Guess I am glad I did not join him. He spent 15 hrs traveling to get back home as opposed to 5.5 hrs. But he was happy to return home before the holiday weekend late Friday night. He was also disappointed that he did not get much time to sight see in London while there since he was so tired from his traveling and most of his time there was filled with meetings.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch I had to get Scott to his Kids on Campus classes at the local college. And that would not have been an issue if they hadn't moved Allison's driver's training class to another facility. It was scheduled to be held up the street at her high school so she could have ridden her bike there and home everyday. Instead I ended up dropping off Scott, then Allison and then picking her up everyday at lunch time. I had just enough time to leave work, pick her up, drop her at home and return to work. And at least Scott's after care program went to 6:30 pm so I was able to get caught up on my computer work that I missed while gone for lunch. Scott really enjoyed his classes-he had a Pets and Vets class in the morning and then a Lego robotics class in the afternoon. We picked him up a few hermit crabs that he took to class each day-he was supposed to "show" a pet for his boy scout badge. Kids all bring in pets on Friday, the last day and give a small presentation. Scott also wanted to bring Cookie, but he could not use that towards the pet badge. He is earning his Dog Care badge with Cookie. The class came in handy since the teacher was a Vet Tech and she helped Scott answer alot of questions that he needed for his dog care badge, as well as the pet badge. Now he is keeping a two month log of dog care and he has to write up info on the hermit crabs and care for them at least 4 months for the badge. (I hope they make it). We have been enjoying watching them change their shells non stop! I also had to take him to his boy scout meeting on Tuesday. The boys have been working on their physical fitness requirement for Tenderfoot during the meetings.

Allison managed to get to all her driver's training classes except for the Friday when she went to work. Now she will have to make up that class at the end of the month. She has also been taking summer piano lessons-we will have to see how her hand is doing before scheduling any more classes.

So I will let you all know how things have been going. HOpefully better!

At least we haven't had to cut the grass! There hasn't been near enough rain. We had a tstorm early Sunday morning, but everything is so dry. I mostly spend my time watering. Imagine Tom watering the grass! So my flowers look pretty good though-the butterflies like my garden. And I sent a few more photos from Ft McHenry on Flag day-the stand in flag over the fort and fireworks over the harbor.

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