Yes I realize it's 4 AM...

and it's awful that I am up....but I got woken up with pain and itching...I guess I am going to have to call my doctor and get in frist thing Monday. Seems even with the antibiotics the cellulitis is spreading...I now have it on a couple of my toes, a couple of my fingers, my upper left arm and my face!! The spot that started it all looks pretty good and only itches when the antibiotics are nearly out of my system (that is how I know that I need to take more!)....unfortunately it looks like I'm going to need something stronger in the way of antibiotics. This stuff itches to the BONE! I could scratch til it bleeds (which I won't do) and it would still itch. The only thing I found to relieve it is ice packs.

Once this itching starts, I cannot sleep or do anything else...that is why I am sitting here typing at 4AM...to try to ignore the itch until the antibiotics take effect.

I know that sounds like I'm whining...I guess I am...

Yesterday Melissa and Frank came by for a while and visited. They are such wonderful people! Frank and Andrew get along so nicely...I think we're going to try to find a way for them to meet up and become closer friends...It was funny...he was talking about the boat Andrew gave him and how he's already taken it out on the water...and I was commenting on how they are so much alike...Somehow camping came up ... which Andrew has been wanting to do for YEARS (since he and I have been together he has not been camping once!)...Almost at the same time Melissa and I said "gimme an RV" LOL...Harley can't even handle sleeping in the backyard and Zac can't sleep anywhere but his own bed at this point...so...It looks like we may have to send our men out camping sometime this summer! They both seemed pretty excited at the concept.

I also met Gerry yesterday...she travelled quite a ways to come out and pick up some small gifts for her children as well...and a neighbor boy. She is a really nice young lady. I am so blessed to be able to help her out this year.

I am looking forward to today...I have my new friend Kerriann and her children coming to visit for a while. The last of the families we adopted is coming to pick up their gifts. Tricia will be coming for a while...that is nice too. I am hoping to make a scrapblog page for the grandparents' Christmas gift this year...I think they would really enjoy that...but we gotta get the pictures scanned in and she is going to help me with that.

We also have to go to Haven's Hope this morning. They have been so helpful and I am thankful that I have made friends at that program as well. I hope someday I can repay them! At this point I am hoping Andrew allows me to go with him to see them...I'd really like to go and thank them in person and give them my update.

Oh and Lindsay called...Channel 9 news wants to interview her to do a story on Santa Swap!! I told her fine, but to please leave my name out of it...I look like hell (especially with this 'new' rash on my face!). The Columbine Courier is running a story next week as well. We are going to be so busy trying to make sure every child has a gift under the tree this year!

Ok, now I am babbling so I bet my pain killers are starting to set in :D I won't be able to go back to sleep at this point...I'm not sure what to do? I guess I could start scanning the pictures in for the scrapbook pages I want to make for the grandparents...