Its Thursday night and Bridget is feeling alot better. This was not the way she expected to spend her 18th birthday. She's not sure if she is going to try to go to Prom on Saturday, but she thinks she'll go to school tomorrow at least for awhile. We are pretty exhausted from the excitement of the week, but she seems to have come through swimmingly. The scar is pretty small and unobtrusive.

We missed one awards banquet, but there are two more coming up, so we should have a chance to celebrate a few more times. The departure for Paris is June 9th which will come up very quickly. I have a feeling that the summer will be a blur!

On our one nice weekend we managed to get the pier in, but the bench that we kept on in blew into the lake during the storm last weekend. That will be interesting to get out. That thing has been on the pier for years and never moved, so that wind must have been really strong.

I had a lovely evening in Sheboygan last Friday. I have quarterly meetings across the street from the R-O's, so I try to arrive right at dinner time. Strong storms were coming through so I stayed till 8 PM and still ended up driving home in some unpleasant weather. Bridget started feeling sick around 3 on Saturday and called us at our friend's house at 7pm in pain and in tears. We ate a quick dinner and came home, but by the time we got home, her pain had localized in the right side of her abdomen and she was warm. We took her right to Burlington where she was imaged and poked and prodded until the surgeon decided it was probably appendicitis and took her into surgery. They were trying to rule out another ovarian cyst and her appendix wasn't visible on the CT scan. It did turn out to be inflamed, though. This was our third all nighter in the last couple months. We must not be as old as we think we are. Everyone in the ER and the hospital thought she was a great patient and when the nurse asked for her weight and height, the nurse said "Oh I wish I could be you for even a day!" It was pretty funny.

I had conversations with Matt, Michele and Kevin in the next couple of days which was nice. Sounds like we are not the only ones having psychotic weather. It sounds like it will be another iffy weather weekend, so our yard will probably continue to look pretty raggedy. Hope everyone is doing well! Love, Susan