I happened to stumble here tonight and see it looks pretty quiet.....guess I could say hello anyhow. Just a few days from now and Hannah will be a real certified teacher! Imagine that! Our little girl has really grown up; she was 9 years old at our first Camp and now she has become a teacher herself....wow! It's kind of mind boggling really. I wonder if she would have still been a teacher without camp........ guess we'll never know.

It's been a crazy month for us once again. We had dropped my Mom off at cardiac rehab and when we arrived back there was an aid car outside and I got a big knot in my stomach. When I got inside she was laying on the floor while the EMT's helped her. Apparently she had been feeling feint and began vomiting blood when they called the aid car. Kind of ironic that it happened in a wing of the hospital yet they still had to load her in and take her to the emergency room. It turns out she had developed a thing called a Mallory-Weiss tear between her esophagus and stomach. Apparently it happened because she coughed so hard during a bout with bronchitis in March. The next week wasn't much fun and we weren't sure she was going to make it a few times. Tough as she is Dottie pulled through and is slowly regaining strength. Then last week we found a huge water bill in the mail and realized we have a leak in our water system which could cost up to $1000 just to find the leak.We have a really long driveway....now we have to decide whether to replace the whole line or just try to repair it. The water company said systems that are the age of ours often develop leaks so we have one more thing to decide.

It seems like one thing after another here and I am hoping things will calm down (I said that earlier too). We are looking for someone to live up here in Anacortes for part of the summer as we are going to Hawaii for a month, and maybe an extra week to boot. It's been 4 years since we have been there and we're all excited. I haven't told my folks yet as I know it's going to stress them out but I know I need a break and Linda surely needs some time to kick back.She is finding herself working too much(again) and is having a stressful year even without the heart attack.
I wish I knew how to slow her down. So there we have it, a brief rundown on a part of our life. I hope yours is going smoother than ours. My love to you all, Dale