It's buildable!

We found out today that our property is officially BUILDABLE!!! No wetlands, no critical areas, it perked, and the Health Department approved our septic design - Yeah!!!! Now, we submit our building plans for permits to build! Woohoo!!!!

Eeeeewwww!

Gracie has been fighting a cold for about a month now. It's been one vicious cycle of cough, fever, sore throat, earache. Yesterday, when she woke up after a night of persistent coughing, she was complaining that her neck hurt. I thought it was probably because she had been coughing so much. I felt the side and it felt really swollen. So to the doctor we went!

The doctor said, "Wow, her lymph node is really swollen and her ear is infected." She prescribed a strong antibiotic and said to give her Ibuprofen 3x's a day at a higher dose. Apparently, swollen lymph nodes are really painful. Then she examined her once more, pulling her hair back, and found she has a BIG SPIDER BITE!!!! Eeeeewwww! She said that the coughing, ear infection, and swollen lymph nodes could all be related to it. So on top of the other meds she also has to take Benadryl 3x's a day.

I felt like a terrible mom that I didn't even see it! Plus, I thought "Eeeeewww! When did a spider crawl on my daughter's head and munch on her neck!" She had played outside most of the day before. So, I'm hoping that's were it occurred. I did a thorough search in and around her bed, though!