Good and bad

It has been a crazy week so far and it's only Thursday. Some great things and not so great things happened.

I guess the first thing that happened was we found out Monday night that we won a trip to the The Delawana Inn. It was their Open the Shutters contest. We can't wait to go. So that was the exciting news.

It was also a great day because I got a pendant I had bought on line with the kid's names on it. It is from Citrus Silver Products.

But then the bad. Sydney fell down our front steps and smacked her face on the brick of the basement window. She's ok but looks like she's been beaten. Each day her left eye gets blacker so it's going to take some time to heal. The picture doesn't do the damage justice but thankfully she will heal and no broken skin for scars. My mom feels really bad because she was watching her but it happened because Sydney wasn't paying attention. Plus this is the first of many injuries over her life I'm sure. Especially since she is such a daredevil.



















Another bad: I have no idea what was going on the other night but we had police cars swarmed all around our house. There was a police helicopter flying around in circle, an ambulance and police cars everywhere. They were looking for something or someone according to John's scanner but in the midst of listening to it he got a fire call and took the scanner with him. While the helicopter was looking they spotted a grass fire. So John was gone and not long after so were the police.

I thought everything was fine and then at 10:30 I look out the window and there are more police cars than the last time including two unmarked. I realized that John had left our shed open so I went out to lock it (with our 100lb dog just in case). When I walked out the neighbours dogs barked at me and I heard one of the police say that they heard dogs barking. I was getting a little nervous and I guess I should have gone and spoken to the police but I didn't. I called the firehall thinking John was standing around talking and he told me that they had just gotten back from the fire (he was out for 3 hours) so I asked him if he had heard what was going on. He said no.

When he got home 20 minutes later there were no police cars at all. He thinks though that a child was missing. I sure hope they found him if that was the case.

I know I sound a little bit crazy at getting nervous but we have had some strange things happen around here. A few years ago we had a teenager try to break into our house because another boy was chasing him and was going to kill him. I wouldn't have doubted that this was going to happen because the kid that was after him seemed to be on something when the police got him.

Also, apparently a month ago (thankfully we weren't home) a swat team was called in to deal with something down the street from us. We have no idea what they were doing though.

It's frustrating because we live in a small quiet town and it would be really nice to know more. I appreciate that they are dealing with whatever is going on but please tell us.

Another good: I've been on a huge creative path and even though I don't normally post scrapbooking pages; here is one. If you want to see more check them out here.















Lastly, I've also posted the photo that will be on the Delawana website stating that we won their contest. It's not the best but I fixed Sydney's face.