I was hoping to have a good picture of me in an eye patch

Tuesday daycare called me, they suspected Cassidy had conjunctivitis and needed me to pick her up & take her to the doctors. I had a feeling she was fine. All last weekend she's had a cold and rubs her nose boogers into her eyes (charming I know). So I go pick her up and take her to the doctors where they confirm my diagnosis that she is fine. They give me a note so she can go back to daycare Wednesday. I'm pretty happy. Figuring she'll take a nap when we get home and I can log back into work. I won't use much time off at all.
until...
as I'm carrying her into the house we get the mail. She hold's a piece. And pokes me in the eye with the corner of an envelope! I end up in agony Tuesday and unable to work (obviously). Wednesday I go to the eye doctor and sure enough that envelope cut my cornea. I was hoping they'd give me an eye patch but no such luck.
Luckily it'll all be healed by Monday but the irony...

It's almost spring!

Technically it IS Spring however here in the northeast there have not been too many springlike days. Last week the weather predictors fooled us by saying Saturday was going to be a beautiful day. We decided to go to this garden place to see daffodils. When the day dawned we began questioning the forecast and we were correct. It barely hit 60 and was darkly cloudy most of the day. We still ventured out, though we are still longing for spring.

Four Ten hour days hasn't been working lately

My normal work schedule is Mon - Thurs 10 hour days and I have Fridays off. It never worked perfectly but the last 2 weeks I've had to work a lot on my Friday OFF. I'm starting to think it doesn't work anymore. I'm going to try to tough it out for the summer though. I want to spend at least one summer with a shortened work-week. For this girl...


These pants make her legs look skinny!

Easter pictures

I ran a 5K today

I ran my first 5K. I wish I had pictures but it was 35 degrees and raining/snowing so...  carrying my camera was out of the question. and no one came to cheer us on because of the weather. I've never been so wet & cold but it was great. I'm going to find another and sign up! WooHoo

First Birthday Party Success

It's a lot of work to have a kids birthday party. Lots of cooking, cleaning, repairing the house after winter damage and fighting yesterday in preparation for the party today. But it was worth it and the party was good. Short but good. Cassidy got tired and took a nap right after cake and by the time she woke up everyone was gone but Grammi & Grampi.  It was a nice day.

Bad cold

Cassidy just hasn't been herself since Monday. Last night she coughed a lot and Bill said she obviously wasn't feeling well this morning. Daycare said similar things. She picked at dinner and then cried. We tried to give her a bath to hopefully clear out her nose a little but she cried and wanted to be held so we gave up quickly. Bill got her in her PJ's and gave her a warm bottle and she's in bed almost an hour earlier than normal. I hope she sleeps well tonight and feels better in the morning.