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The week of Lily

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What a week! Monday was Lily's 18th birthday. She had plans with friends that fell through so we started the day by taking Curtis to do his last driving lesson and while he was doing that we went to Newtowne Neck for an hour or so and it was beautiful. We walked around and sat on the beach for a bit and it would have been great if we had planned to hang out for a few hours and have our friends join us like the old days. But instead we picked Curtis up and stopped by the library and came home to make Lily's birthday cheesecake. She went and hung out with a friend for a few hours and Curtis went to cross country and then Josh (after taking his co-worker to the airport) made Lily pizza for her birthday dinner.   My emotions have been all over the place this week. I feel so happy and excited for Lily and then I get really sad that she is going to be gone and then I get stressed about how this week is all going to work out with everyone starting school and being gone and then I get ...
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Lightning!

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 and that's when things went downhill. When we got home, the garage door openers wouldn't work. Not a good sign. We went in the house and Josh immediately said, something smells funny. I am very good when we go on trips to make sure the pantry and fridge are pretty well cleaned out and we always take out the garbage and I check the dishwasher and disposal. So I sniffed around and couldn't find anything. Then we opened the garage door and it was so disgusting. What we decided in that moment was that the power must have gone out and our freezer door was open and dripping rotten meat juice and there were probably 300 flies buzzing around. It was super disgusting. I about threw up right then.  Thankfully Josh is heartier and he got out there and opened up the doors and started bagging up the rotten food. I couldn't even go out there without gagging. Brandon and I looked around the rest of the house to figure out what was going on. The power wasn't on in the boys' ro...
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Best week of the year

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 So we all woke up early on Saturday and drove up to College Park to pick up Lily and Curtis from FSY. They both had a really great time and told us some stories as we drove to NC. Curtis said his counselor was super cool and he aspires to be like him and he really liked everyone in his company. Lily told us about some of the classes and they talked about the teachers and they both loved the food so the whole experience was very positive--hooray! We drove a long 95 where we don't usually drive and it was so slow and that was annoying but we grabbed some breakfast sandwiches and didn't stop again until the grocery store on Emerald Isle. We got all of our food and showed up at our house five minutes before check in. We had a little trouble finding the key box but finally did and get everything in and put away and then we went to the beach for a few hours before coming home and having a late dinner.  The house was older but it worked. It was just a half mile down the road from wh...
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