Life is good

Summer is moving right along.  I can hardly believe it's all ready my little sister, Sarah's birthday!  August 13th!  Back when I was in school that meant only a couple more weeks until we started and that summer was practically over! 

Life is good.  Everyone gets to have a break from my overabundance of photos of Brie.  We were busy this past week.  I've had a crazy heat rash/eczema situation and after consulting my long distance health care consultants, I decided that I needed to actually get seen and prescribed something.  The at home remedies were not working and my right top and bottom eyelid continued to swell larger and larger each morning.  (Although, thanks to Spencer I learned about Benadryl topical ointment gel, which is awesome to stop my compulsive itching on my arms and torso!)

My doctor here was fantastic and allowed me to come in the same day I called and prescribed some prednisone and ranitidine because my system was getting overloaded with allergens.  It seemed to help immediately.  Phew!

I took a break from my jogging last week to see if it would help the rash go away (the sweat factor) and I'm excited to be back on the jogging ritual.  It makes me feel good about myself that I can do it and I LOVE seeing my miles go up on mapmyride.com where I've started to log my workouts.  :-)  Why didn't I start that earlier?

Anyway, I don't have any photos of Brie that are new to share.  But she's growing and is a happy little girl.  She's started saying "A-mie".  I don't know where she's picked it up and I try to tell her I'm "Mama".  We'll see how long the Amie phase lasts. 

One of these days, I'll get Mat to upload some of his photos and videos from his phone.  He's got some fun ones!