Stitching, Easter, and Spring

 Once again, I didn't plan to be gone so long. I had to keep multiple grandsons on the weekdays before and after Easter so that blew any semblance of routine and order right out of the water. They had a wonderful day riding their bikes and scooters out front in the circle. Easter was blessed as well. Then this past week was the week of appointments. Too many appointments. By the end of the week I just felt out of sorts. Jeff did get good news on his latest bladder scope...no new tumors. That is a win. I didn't hear from my diagnostic test on Friday as I had hoped which kind of leaves a little heaviness on my weekend, but such as that is life.

We will start with stitching and then do some life pictures. I am stitching on Oh Happy Day by Plum Street Samplers. I finally got the border done and was able to start on the inside. The inside of the pattern which I shared in my last post is getting some changes. 

Here is where I stand this Saturday.

I think it is going to work with my plans. It does seem smaller than I anticipated which is really a good thing. I have limited space to add a ton of patriotic decor, but I do want to add a little for this year starting with Memorial Day in May.

Here is my graphing out of America 250 and I am currently playing around with "We the People."

I am so happy to be back enjoying stitching again. I had gotten into such a funk that nothing was drawing me in and now I have a stack of things I want to do. I am a one project at a time stitcher for the most part now because my brain can't take too many different things going on at one time. Don't know if it is old age or just my life at this moment in time.

Easter found it cloudy and rainy. We could not be sad about rain as we are in a drought here. Rain was good news. It did hold off long enough for the egg hunt. One of the children below was not happy. I had a golden egg in the bunch and he had not found it first. That would be the oldest, Tucker. Mimi will NOT do a golden egg again. He was told by his mommy he would smile or he would not get to do something or other, so he gave it his best shot.

Valerie was trying to figure it all out. By the time she went to her other grandparents house later in the day she had figured out what this strange thing was though.

You can see above that Tucker was clearly the winner of most eggs, but the golden egg did him in. No golden eggs. 

Here they were heading out.

On Good Friday, I had Miles and Palmer who had a blast together. Sometimes they argue a lot, but I don't think I heard anything all day but getting along. They found an egg in the flower beds from last year.

Hard to tell they are a year apart in age.

Here they were at lunch. Like I said, they got along very well and had a really good day together which helped tired Mimi and Paw Paw out a lot.

It was windy here all week and cool on a couple of the days, but at least I wasn't getting snow like some I saw on social media. I think that should be the end of cool here. You kind of just get that sure enough spring/summer vibe today out there.

My bottlebrush shrubs are popping out all over. My day lilies are starting to show leaves. They had come up earlier this spring and got nipped once more and kind have been slow coming up this year. I think we have rounded the corner of all that now though.

In a little bit of other news, many of you have followed Lindsay's woes with her health since Palmer's birth. That birth didn't go well which led to a subsequent surgery and quite honestly I think may have led to the second surgery she has had since his birth. She had the endometriosis and the doctor just wanted to put her on birth control. That was a no for so many reasons. Neither she no I could take it without migraines and we both feel it is not all that healthy for you.

I found her a functional medicine doctor similar to what I had gone to get well. She had the multitude of bloodwork and tests and has met with her since all that along with a nutritionist. She is doing her one month for lack of a better word, detox. I am cheering her on and she is about 8 days in now. I told her the worst part is over. It gets so easy from then on. She did find out from all her tests that she too is gluten sensitive. I think that was her worst news, but I KNOW I am better without it. It is hard, but I find it makes it easier to deal with it when you feel the difference. 

I know it is a buzz word these days, but we both have the tests to prove it with us.

My hope is she is finding out some things much earlier than I did and will avoid some of my troubles. She was able to find out some very helpful information overall so that was good news.

AND yes, I did watch the splashdown yesterday. I have followed the whole thing with gusto. It feels good to have something positive to look at on the news or phone these days.

In an effort to blog more and shorter posts, I will close out there and hopefully pop back in sooner.

April showers will hopefully bring some May flowers for us,

Sandy