Mama On The Move

Wednesday was the first  day of Spring....... Sunday it started to snow. This is what Spring looks like in Illinois.   Thank goodness it isn't winter any longer, I'm not sure we could handle it.

After ten weeks away to attend school, Kerry is finally back home.  The dogs are always delirious when he comes back so we just stay out of the way until they've finished greeting him.

Katie walked by the front window this morning, glanced outside, and said, "Oh, WOW!"  We were surrounded by birds. Hundreds of birds. Thousands of birds. Front yard, back yard, neighbor's yards. Birds everywhere! Then all at once, they all took off. They must be heading north for the summer. Look out, Canada!

It's always nice to walk in to the kitchen first thing in the morning and be greeted by a banana.

A few nights ago just before bedtime, Ringo started doing the doggie dance that indicates he wants to go out in the backyard.  Emily told him, "I just let you in!  I'm not letting you back out again so fast!"  So I got up and let him out. A few minutes later, I heard Katie let him back in.   A few minutes later, I heard Emily let  him back out.  I really only noticed because she was grousing at him about why he was going in and out so much.  When Ringo really wants something, he stands and stares at you, makes a huffing noise, and hops with only his front feet.  It's very distracting and impossible to ignore.  If you try, he head butts you. Then it was bedtime and I sent everyone to get ready for bed and I went around locking all the doors.  I checked to see if the dogs were outside before I locked up.  I didn't think I had heard them come back in but didn't see them anywhere.  The outside light was blown out though,...

Emily has been suffering from exhaustion to the point where I was becoming concerned that she might be anemic.  She will be standing there talking like a normal person and she will turn white as a sheet and have to go nap for seven or eight hours.  I did the whole "how worried should I be" dance in my head and finally decided to take her to the doctor and have her blood checked. Emily apparently has my father's tiny veins.  It took two phlebotomists examining both arms to find a vein they could use.   Because this was in the middle of the day, they asked her if she was glad to be missing school.  She told them she is homeschooled and would still have to finish her schoolwork for the day. I piped up and told them this was a field trip for her to learn what a phlebotomist does and they looked at me like I was the worst mother on the planet.  It was a joke , people! All of this resulted in the knowledge that Emily is deficient in Vitamin D ...

Emily had a doctor's appointment this past week.  They always start by weighing her, measuring her height, and taking her blood pressure and temperature. When it came to measuring her height, we discovered she is now 5'4"..... exactly one inch taller than me. She looked at me with a huge, cheese-eating grin. (Except she's allergic to dairy, so maybe it was more like a huge, processed-soy-with-cheese-flavored-additives eating grin.) "I'm taller than you," she grinned at me. "Big deal, most of the population is," I responded.  "But right now, I'm wearing boots with a two inch heel and you're wearing flats, so in my boots, I'm taller than you ." Emily just smirked at me, "Your boots are a lie ."