Homecoming.

Okay, so I don't have any pictures of the dress or of her and her friends all gussied up.  They got together around 3:30 p.m. to get themselves beautiful for the big high school homecoming dance.  I sent my camera with her with instructions to take lots and lots of pictures and to give the camera to others to make sure she's in a few of the photos.  She had dinner at another friends's house and then they all went to the dance at 8:00 p.m.  We were to be the parents driving the girls home.  Jordan had other plans though.

We met her and her ride at St. Mary's Hospital around 10:30 last night.  The lucky girl had two very nice fellas escorting her.

With a blood sugar reading beyond what her meter could measure - over 600 (the rescue squad meter doesn't measure more than 500), I instructed a dance chaperone to call an ambulance.  Jordan called me in a panic when she got her 600+ reading around 10:15 p.m.  Fortunately, Jordan left the dance without proper permission to make the call outside and two chaperones followed her so I was able to tell one of them what was going on.

Upon her arrival at the hospital Jordan let me know that my camera was missing.  She doesn't know what happened to it.  It was in her dress pocket on the way to the dance, but once she got to the dance it was no where to be found.  I still don't know how we got to the hospital before she did.  Probably because we left the house before the ambulance was dispatched and I think we were five minutes from the school when Jordan called to tell me they were taking her to St. Mary's (our preferred hospital) rather than the closer hospital because St. Mary's has a 24 hour pediatric E.R.  You can see part of her pretty little strapless dress peeking out above the sheet.  I'm sure we will get copies of pictures from her friends if that camera doesn't show up.

Two and a half hours, a full bag of fluids, and nine units of insulin later she's feeling much better as she poses in her lovely hospital attire complete with bandaid covering a collapsed vein and blood pressure cuff on the left arm, heartbeat monitor on middle finger of her right hand, and an I.V. in her right forearm.

Kids for Hire.

We went strawberry picking on Sunday and, of course, the girls had a lot of fun - just like they did when they picked apples a couple of times last fall.  I am afraid they would have picked berries all day if we'd let them.  I wonder if the berry farm would hire them.  This particular farm will have peaches to pick in June.  Can't wait to taste fresh-from-the-tree peaches!!

The girls had some ice cream before we left the farm.  At one of the look-outs we stopped to view, they kicked around Maddie's This is Not a Book.

After dinner - the reward for all of that hard work.  Jordan and Maddie made the whipped cream themselves.

Happy 15th Birthday, Jordan!

My first born is 15 years old today.  Poor thing woke up with a fever and didn't feel like eating the carrot cake pancakes with cream cheese that Maddie and I made for breakfast.  She wanted to take it easy today anyway.  She read, napped, and made an "eco book" from one of her idea books she received today.

What a snow storm!

We had quite the snow storm today. I think it finally tapered off around 7:00 p.m., but I'm sure we have more than a foot of snow on the ground. The snow was coming down so hard this afternoon that it was difficult to take good photos, as you can see here and here. The girls loved it even though it was too cold to stay out for any length of time.