A series of unfortunate events

Our 4th of July ended rather abruptly. It started sprinkling so We were rushing to clean up the fireworks. David had 5 or so sparklers in his hand he decided to light real quick. He lit one and it caught the others on fire. They flash burned and got David's hand. He came inside and put it under cold water while I got the kids ready for bed. David came upstairs and said We needed to go to the hospital. Thank goodness grandpa was here to stay with the kids.
The doctor in the emergency room told us we had to go see the burn doctor on Monday. They washed his hand, bandaged it up and sent us home with lots if pain medication.
Monday morning I drove David to the burn doctor in Austell. We got in to see the doctor and they told us he would need surgery and they would do it that morning. We came home Monday night ( with more pain meds), they put a cadaver graft on his hand going that his own skin would regenerate under it.
On Friday we went back to the doctor to see if it was healing or if it would require a graft of his own skin. Thankfully his skin had started regenerating on its own and didn't need another surgery.

Meanwhile in the week that we were nursing David's hand, all three kids and grandpa got sick. 

The following Sunday the kids started home with grandpa while mom and dad went to church ( it was so quiet). When we got home from church we ate lunch then I started to feel sick. I took a nap and still didn't feel better. I laid around while my stomach cramped. After a while it stopped moving around, the cramping had settled in my lower right side. That's when David said We had to go to the hospital...again. I had appendicitis. I ended up having my appendix removed early Monday morning.
They discharged me around 11am, David and the kids came and picked me up to take me home.

Driving home on hwy 41 minding our own business we got side swiped by an older man who made a very wide turn into our lane. As luck would have it, it hit on the passenger side where I was sitting. That hurt! Luckily our van was not badly damaged and no one was hurt.

Luckily, that seems to be the end of our streak of bad luck. Good thing too, I'm not ready to lose anymore organs.

Warning: graphic pictures below.

(3rd &) 4th of July

Kennesaw always does their firework show on the 3rd of July. David had to work the Peachtree Road Race on the morning of the 4th so he was unable to come watch the fireworks with us. Grandpa, our friends the Judsons, Nathan, AJ and I walked downtown to watch the fireworks. Along the walk the boys saw some fireflies- they usually don't see them because when the fireflies are out the kids are asleep.
We found some more friends from church and decided to sit with them. All the kids played and chased fireflies until the fireworks started. The boys say and watched them for a few minutes, until some fireflies caught their eye then it was of to chase more fireflies for the rest of the show.
On the 4th we did fireworks at our house. The kids had a lot of fun watching the fountains, morters and Roman candles. AJ and Nathan got to hold some sparklers and all three of them loved the pop-its.

Scotland Yard

We found the game Scotland Yard at a game store in Kennesaw and I had to have it! It it's a game that my family played a lot of while I was little. We played it with my family while we were in Iowa and Nathan really liked it. Being 'Mr. X' is right up Nathan's alley. He loves being the bad guy. 

When I was little and played as Mr. X I used to try and cheat and take a pogo stick. Anderson said his detective had swimming powers and could swim up the river.

The ( long) drive home

We left aunt Llew's house on Monday and headed back home. We spotted for the night on Mt. Vernon, IL. In the morning as we were loading the car back up we saw a little black kitten emerge from under one of the bushes. And then We saw a second kitten come out. Someone had set a bowl of milk out for them and the mother. There ended up being four kittens in total. The kids wanted to bring them home with us or have its take them to a shelter. Zoey wanted to make them but Bonnie wouldn't let her because once you name them, you own them. We settled on telling the front desk of the hotel that they were there and asked them to call shelter.