Summer's here

with a vengeance!!! It has been a long week and a half since I blogged last. Komen was AWESOME-over 65,000 participants plus all of the volunteers...it was a lotta people all out for one cause and lots of pink! This is the view down Olive street and it's kind of small but as far as one can see on the street there are people...and we were in the middle of all the walkers, the view was the same looking back..it was amazing:)

Then last week it rained Mon. and Tues. and cancelled Girl Scout camp for the girls...which was loads of fun as we were trapped indoors for two days! And then Belle got sick and missed camp altogether and while Lexi enjoyed Wed. and Thurs. at camp, she too ended up home sick on Fri.!!! It was a long week which continued through Sat with the sickies....

Sunday when everyone woke up feeling halfway normal we let Ed reorganize the basement into a family theater area where we can all watch a movie, hideout from a storm or just send loud groups of girls to! Now, I know it was Father's Day and we did get him some movies and cards and good eats, but he actually wanted to do this, I only let him cause it was his special day and all ya know ;)

Sunday was also midsommer! And coincidentally the time when a smoldering heat wave came through-yay...kidding. So it has been insanely hot for a few days to continue through Friday...when supposedly we will cool down some....but with the humidity I don't think it will matter all that much since you will still step outside and be drenched...ahhh...love summer in the Lou:)

But...due to the insane heat we went to the pool for the first time yesterday. We didn't go until after 4 and it was still ridiculously hot in the sun but fortunately the water was cool as it has not had weeks of hot temps heating it yet. I sat and sunned because Vitamin D is good for me:) and because it just felt good and...ok...I admit it, because I am not happy with the strappage on my suit and its ability to keep it up! So today after I write this I will alter where the straps go and hope that will keep things up and ....sigh... accept the fact that maybe I am just forever doomed to having to wear a suit with straps and have tan lines......SIGH.....oh well.

Anyway, since that is my biggest problem at that moment...life is good:)

Hope you all have a nice day.

Blog ya later,

K

Adrift

I know..once again with the ocean/lake metaphor...but I do love it so and it has really summed things up for me at several points during this journey but...I don't actually mean me at the moment, I mean the blog. I myself have moved onto another body of water..a stream, not sure to where yet, but, I'm going with the flow:D LOL

You see the blog started out as a place for me to express myself. I wrote a few times when I was so inspired and then the big mean C man attacked and the blog became one of my lifelines to sanity. Having this outlet was amazing for me as it allowed me to put words down and release what was behind them...sometimes multiple times, but the act alone was very cathartic for me. And then the connection I had with you all and knowing I had this network of people who cared about me, kept me afloat in the dark times, but it seems like that is all the blog was about for so long, as was my life, and now that my life is not...I'm struggling with where to take the blog and how to change it.

So bear with me as My Mishmash has some growing pains please:)

And btw my one year checkup was all clear last week and the appt. with the PS went well and we are on track for Sept for the real fake ones:)

Tomorrow is the Komen race in STL and I will be there with Ed, the girls, my parents and a good friend. Because of some very wonderful and amazing people I raised over $1000!!!!! I actually made it into the Top 100 Fundraisers list!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am humbled by your support.

Blog ya later,
K