My Art Teacher

 On Wednesday of last week, Lillie, Becca, and I started art lessons. Our teacher is really kind, but there is one thing about her that I just can't get.......she can't accept the fact that the Purple Hurricanes are one million times better than the Irwin Indians. Anyway, she was teaching us about complementary and primary colors. Green is across from red, so to remember that we think of Christmas. Orange and blue are across from each other.......but we didn't use the Florida Gators. We used some other random team. The Gators are no good. Purple is across from yellow so I suggested the Purple Hurricanes......... she told me not to use that.  She is an obvious Indian fan....uhgg. I guess that if the Hurricanes weren't any good I would still hold on to them, but on Friday night the Hurricanes creamed the Indians. The score was 40 to 12, and the Hurricanes won. Take that Indians. 

My Girl Cousins

Pictured: Gracie, Ericka, Sadie, Caroline(me), Sara, Lillie, Hannah, Becca,and Grace

   Our family is large....really large. This picture doesn't even have have all of the girl cousins (baby Abi is missing). We're all like sisters. We argue a little and get on each others nerves, and the next second we're best friends and completely inseparable. 

Abi and Me

Becca, Lillie, Me, and Ericka at Wild Adventures

Sara and I twinning

Grace, Me, and Hannah

Gracie and Me

School, Soccer, And A Baby Grand Piano

On Tuesday of last week our family started back to school. It has been going pretty well, and the weeks seem to go by quickly. For school Ericka is reading Little Women for her literature, and I am reading The Incredible Journey. I would much rather have to read Little Women, because I just don't like animal books. I might not be able to read Ericka's literature book for my school, but I can read it aside from school. I also am doing Spanish on the school computer. The one thing that is really annoying is that I have to wait until the room is empty. Ben does not have to wait because he has to learn a language in high school. I am always wanting to do Ben and Ericka's schoolwork. One thing I wouldn't want to do is Ben and Ericka's algebra. I intensely dislike math even though I'm not that bad at it. It's just so boring. Sadie doesn't cause many distractions like I thought she would. She normally just sits on a chair and colors with crayons and a piece of paper. These past two Wednesdays she has gone to playschool with her cousin John Mark.

We live very close to our cousins Lillie, Becca, John Mark, and Abi. In fact there is only one house between us. Tim, Lillie, and Becca are all doing soccer this year so we have been having a soccer practice. We use Tim's soccer goal and an old swing set frame for the other goal. Ericka, Lillie, and I are all on team "Fro Yo". We have done it every evening since Monday. We don't do it in the day time because of the heat. Last year Tim and Lillie were on the same team. There team name was Aztecs. Even though they may not be on the same team this year, they are sure to have lots of fun.

Our family is going to be housing the baby grand piano that our Uncle Jim is buying. I don't know all of the details, but it will be at our house tomorrow. Daddy, Uncle Paul, and Uncle Jim are going to have to somehow get it into our house without breaking the piano or denting the wall. I hope that the Lord Family Furniture Movers haven't lost there moving abilities. The piano was made in 1905.....it is probably the oldest thing in our house. I think it will be cool to have another piano in our house. We could do things like duets without having to share the same piano. We will have to wait two weeks or so to get the piano tuned though, but the second that it has been completely tuned, I'm sure that Ben will play it alot.

A Wasp Sting

Today I was the most afraid I remember being in years. Our family was visiting Mount Paron Primitive Baptist Church. I was swinging on the swing-set, and a wasp stung me on the neck. I'm really allergic, and I got very scared. I asked Mama where the epipen was. She didn't have it. We were visiting family, and in all the craziness of getting packed and changing bags, she forgot it.

 Ericka told Daddy, and Daddy, Ben, and I got in the car. Out of all the places in GA why did it have to be in a large town with lots of red lights, and several people that were going too slow? I was afraid that I would have difficulties breathing like I did the last time I had a reaction. I prayed that God would keep me safe.

 When we got to the hospital the lady at the front desk asked Daddy all these questions. I just wanted to get on with it. At last they brought me into this cold, scary room. Why do they have to make hospitals look so depressing? They checked my blood pressure and checked my heartbeat. I started to feel less nervous......until I saw a needle. The doctor said that the were going to use an IV to give me liquids. (They are giving me medicine through a tube and into my arm? What?)Well, they gave me an IV. The steroids felt fine, but the benadryl made me feel drowsy and jittery.

They finally released me from the hospital. I was glad to know that the people at the church prayed for me. I know that the prayers helped because other than the wasp sting hurting, feeling a little bit tight, and feeling uncomfortable I'm okay. The worse part was probably fearing it would be as bad as it was the last time. I will never forget my first reaction (the ambulance and everything), but the allergy shots I've been getting for a little over a year seem to be working. Now I won't worry as much.

I look really scary in this picture. My pink face is not a reaction to the wasp sting though. It is my sun burn from the beach.

Looking on the bright side, I got to have so much fun with my cousins.

 

Monday Night Bowling

Yesterday the whole family went to The Rocking 8 Bowling Alley in Douglas and had an amazing time. Mama won the first round, and Ben won the next. I got last at least in one of the games. The whole time we were there Sadie kept on running to the arcade. She really liked looking at the lit up and colorful bubble gum machines.

Timothy playing around in the arcade

Ericka starting to bowl

Sisters

Sadie Hope Lord

Sadie Hope Lord is my little sister. I had always wanted a baby sister or brother, but deep down I knew that it just had to be an adorable little sister. When Mama and Daddy told us that they were expecting a baby we went on and on about names we wanted. We all had something to say about it. A little while later, Mama and Daddy went to find out if it was a boy or a girl. The results came in and there was a 90% chance it was a girl. Mama said that it was really a 50/50 chance, but I knew it was a girl. Later when Mama went to see if it was a girl or a boy for the second time she took Ericka and me. The nurse asked if we were ready to find out and Ericka told her, "It just has to be a girl." It was a girl!

 

I don't think our family would look right without Sadie.

   

Hello

Thanks for checking out my new blog. I didn't know much about setting up a blog, but my Aunt Beth helped me a lot.

I have decided to tell you some things about me for my first post, so here goes.
  
My name is Dona Caroline Lord. Although my first name is Dona, I am called Caroline because my mama's name is Dona, and if they called me that things could get confusing. My  favorite colors are mint green, aqua, and pink. All of those colors just remind me of an adorable ice cream parlor. I hate the taste of sweet tea. It's just nasty to me. My favorite thing to eat is my Daddy's homemade pizza. I have a pet rooster named Buzz. He is a Polish chicken and he has feathers sticking out of the top of his head. She is too cute. I am highly allergic to wasps, fire ants, yellow jackets, and hornets. Once I had to go to the hospital with an allergic reaction to fire ants. My favorite season is winter. There are no seasonal allergies and more importantly no fire ants.

That basically sums up me. The purpose of this blog is to show people that the middle isn't so bad.....it's really the best place to be.