We got through Morgan's teething, bless his heart that was rough. Just as we were getting used to sleeping again Claire came home last Wednesday very sick. Headach, sore throat, stomach ache, fever. Took her to the doctor the next morning surprise, surprise strep. She got worse and worse over the weekend. Turns out she had a virus on top of the strep, she ended up dehydrated. She had sores in her mouth and couldn't talk, eat and refused to even drink. She gave us quite a scare. We had taken her back into the doctor, she was given some pain med and cream to use. Today she woke up feeling fine, still tired but in much better spirits. She is staying home from school again tomorrow to finish recovering and we have had to postpone her birthday party.

Jay is looking at starting a new permanent job next week. He will be going to Louisiana to do post construction clean up. The area there that is seeing a huge boom in building is about 30 miles north of Katrina's path. There are houses and offices going up all over the place. So it will be just me and the kids until the end of the school year. We will have periodic visits when we can.

Morgan is speaking in 3-4 word sentences and we can understand about 80% of what he says. Right now a shoulder shrug or the plain word no seem to be his favorite responses. He doesn't walk anywhere, his little legs look like a pair of pistons going a hundred miles an hour.

I am working on my writings, which will be going up on the farm website soon. I have also opened a full fledged eBay store that is doing magnificently. This is our off season income for the farm. We haven't had a chance between illnesses, unexpected bills and what not to get our greenhouses up and going. However, we have been working the soil, by spring it should be a wonderful dark brown almost black. Granted with Jay gone it will be mainly myself working. Claire does a wonderful job when she does work, but she is only 8 yrs old, not quite ready to take on a full work load.

Some of the things we have been selling are quilt books, craft books, novels, fabric, we are starting to load up christmas items now. In the near future there will be home decor items, purses, herbs and spices, candles, soaps. eBay is giving us such a broader market it just absolutely wonderful.

Well, I am off to bed. I had a dress order come in tonight that is going to have me quite busy.

Everyone have a wonderful night!!

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)

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