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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Yay for Spring!

I am always excited when spring gets here. The start of warmer weather, things blooming, things starting anew. Full of promise. I just love everything about it. Except maybe the allergies LOL that part sucks of course. My son and youngest are going in for allergy testing soon. My youngest because she needs to hers are so bad. My son because he wants to find out what all he is allergic to. (his are not as bad thankfully) I am going back in to go ahead and start shots which the sucky part means I'll be doing this weekly for 5 years but  mine have reached a point nothing else is helping. I think hers is about that way too. In any case I am hoping this helps us so that we don't have such a hard time with the other things that come with it like sinus infections and bronchitis etc. Tired of going through that and not good to need antibiotics so often. I fought off one severe ear infection and think I have another at this point. The first one the regular dr said oh just fluid and when I went in to ER finally for my bronchitis (worse I ever had I was coughing up blood a lot) the ER dr was freaking over my ear which felt like it was going to burst every time I coughed. We were all sick for around 3 months this year. Very very ill. My husband still has a cough some. He burst all the blood vessels in the lower half of his eyes with it and they are going to take time to heal. Everyone except my son who managed to escape it. I think he lucked out with a good immune system. My mom and MIL are now sick though mom's I think we caught in time. I have hope that my MIL will get over hers quickly too.
I want to get her some flowers and stuff because she enjoys gardening and really kinda between her and my dad got me into it. Some people just have green thumbs. I don't but I still try LOL So long as I don't have to touch the plants much they do great. Which is another thing I'm excited about. Getting my garden going. I try to plant some annuals every year. My MIL gave us some purple flowers that I was happy to see pop up this year. They came up before the snow hit so they are a bit frost bit but otherwise they look great. I have some daffodils coming up and blooming. I want to go get some flowers and then there is a little greenhouse that opens and has some awesome tomato plants. I had some cherry tomatoes that I was getting a bowl full every couple of days off just one plant last year. (I would just go out and eat them sometimes) I want to get most of my veggie and fruit plants from them. This year I may try for a grape vine I have somewhere to put it for it to grow off of. 
This is also the time of year I get out my camera and go crazy with it. We took a trip to the zoo yesterday which for me is a big deal. I've mentioned before I'm agoraphobic with severe PTSD and anxiety problems. I actually did ok though I did have to work through a couple of panic attacks.  My son hadn't been in awhile and my youngest had never been. It has changed some since I went but in good ways. We did find out Spring break was not the best choice of timing. It was so crowded (I have an issue with crowds) and we had to park way out on the other side of the over flow parking lot. We were beginning to think we wouldn't find a spot at all. The crowds crossing the intersection looked like someone let a bus or two of people off at a time but they were just coming from the parking lots. Inside it was long lines to get through buildings. Though we hit the snake house, the aquarium which was sadly missing the big grouper fish and we missed stingray bay...and a couple other indoor ones. We plan on going back again this summer when it isn't so crowded. I managed to nearly give myself a concussion when we first got there. I was laughing about it though. There was a tunnel and my husband (6 foot something) went through ducked some. My son (5'9) goes through and barely  had to duck so me being 5'3 didn't think I had to duck as much as I did and WHACK. I hear cracking noises and everything went black a sec. Yep it was my head. I was like oh yeah. See? This is what happens when I get out LOL It didn't really hurt after though just made me a bit dizzy and I was a bit concerned about the cracking LOL (I will find something humorous in just about anything) anyway. Oh I forgot to mention we found out my youngest (who is 5 she will be 6 in June) is 50 inches tall and weighs 60 lbs. Basically she is physically the size of an 8 year old. O.o She has been measured at 3 different places so I know this wasn't a glitch in the scale/height thing either. She is going to be super tall.  My son of all things was most interested in the ducks. I was like um out of all the exotic wild life you want to see the ducks? LOL We stopped to feed the geese and fish by the aquarium and he was trying to feed the one lone duck that was out there. I did get a video of the fish coming up to eat. Lots of catfish. We did miss out on the other half of the zoo due to it taking so long to find a parking spot and actually get in but as I said we plan on going back. My son does a lot of walking so he was all bouncing while at the end of it the rest of us were all tired LOL My youngest was saying she wished she was a cheetah so she could dash to the car and not have to just walk all that way. :) We are hoping to make it to the mid fair this month. I haven't been in forever. My husband used to go to them all the time and my son hasn't been in a long time either. He doesn't remember it really. Here is hoping I do ok. This one isn't as far of a trip and it is in an area I've been a bit more due to my rheumy appts. I am hoping to get to meet in a friend in person that I haven't got to yet that I absolutely adore. :) That just makes it even better and gives me more reason to try and make it. So hopefully will get to update later that I went. We'll see. I hate planning because if I plan it all goes out the window so I play it by ear instead. I nearly forgot to mention the gulls. Apparently they know when closing time is at the zoo and they swarm the parking lot and check each spot as the cars leave. It was crazy like a scene out of the birds.
I've been progressing with my crocheting though I need to do more art. I have a pencil drawing I may try soon. With the crochet I've been teaching myself stitches by making wash cloths. They are awesome wash cloths by the way. I wasn't sure how well they'd work since they were crochet but I love them. You have to use 100 percent cotton. I hope to get to where I can make and sell stuff later but am not there yet. I've seen things that are way above my head like crochet lace parasols but I'd love to get there. Dresses for little kids, stuffed animals you name it. I made a granny square finally so I can start making an afghan from those and my youngest saw it and wanted it LOL I have two to make. One for her and one for my son. I'm making his out of camo yarn and hers out of very soft fuzzy baby blanket yarn.
I also am ready to start spring cleaning. I am wanting my yard to dry out soon too. In any case that is the update for now. Here are some pics ...