Catching up, Checkin in —

 Hi, all! Happy belated St. Patrick’s Day!  It was a lovely day here, a bit cool, but dry which is good because we have been getting a lot of rain lately and I don’t care for that, well, not as much as we have had.

Hope all is well with you.  Things here are ok.  I am pretty much the same except I took a tumble a week or so ago and fell on my bad knee.  Needless to say it has been hurting since.  I have taken to wearing my brace again, however, which is helping.  

A month or so ago my husband and I had routine echocardiograms.  Mine was ok. He was not so ok.  He was tentatively diagnosed with CHF, but we don’t know much yet.  We have a follow up appointment this afternoon so we shall see.  Am I terrified?  Only a tiny bit terrified.  We have been married 52 years and he started having health issues, blood pressure specifically, before we ever got married.  That was an ongoing situation until 1990 when he was diagnosed with diabetes.  He was 43.  He was told he had had it for at least five years probably longer.  So, in a way, I am used to “health issues”.  It ' has been a part of our daily life for the majority of our lives.  However, I would be lying if I said I was just taking it all with a grain of salt.  I am not.  I am trying to look at the bright side in that he has none of the typical symptoms of CHF, he has a good energy level, a great appetite and a good outlook.  All positive things.  I have been told that it is at least partially reversible.  Don’t know what that means or entails but I guess we will find out today.  Prayers and good thoughts welcome.

The school year is zipping right along.  It is so hard to believe that in 10 weeks I won’t be on school pick up duty anymore.  It is something I have done daily since Bean was 3.  It is unimaginable that she is going into high school — not possible.  I will say that this is going to be somewhat of a learning curve, a shift in my existence — no reason to have cookies in the house, no need to make special treats….

Pretty sure I am not going to do this very well.

Bean did have a good time the first part of spring break.  She and her mother participated in the 8th grade school trip to NYC.  It was quite the busy four days with their activities running from 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. every day.  There were fifty spots for students, parents and teachers and it seems a good time was had by all.

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Apparently when this photo was taken her social battery had died and she was on silent mode for the almost the rest of the trip.  Ah, to be a young teen again  — no thank you!

So, spring break has come and gone and life has gone back to normal, whatever that is.  It is a lovely, cool spring day, our girl possum is pregnant and I think maybe one of our foxes is as well.  When I see evidence of  it I will share!