Miss Kelsey

We are happy to announce our summer sitter, Miss Kelsey. She comes to us from a small town and is very excited to hang out with our crew for the summer. She comes with lots of energy and we are hopeful for a fun filled kid kind of summer! Thanks to Kelsey for saying yes and we look forward to a great summer of wonderful memories!(we warned her she must take photos so the blog can go on, she said she loves to take pictures!)

hints of warmer days

Pete got me lilacs 5 years ago and this year they have really taken off and were in full beautiful bloom. It was so pretty to have a long the back of the fence line. They are continuing to really grow with each rainfall we get so we may have to prune a bit next year. LOVE THEM!!
It also have finally become nice enough to have lunches on the deck again. The kids just love eating outdoors.

piano

The piano tuner came in today and tuned the piano and now it sounds beautiful. She prompted my thoughts though when she asked what the piano's story was. I had to call mom and see if she knew its history, not for another blog post but rather to have it written down so as to have it in the future.  The piano's story: my folks bought the piano after seeing it in the classifieds. It was completely black and mom refinished it. We think they purchased it about 1981. It lived on the farm until 2003 when it was moved to Pete and I's first home, then it was moved to our rental in 2005 and it made it to the resting place in 2008. The piano was tuned regularly while at the farm and then did not get tuned again until 2013. In 2013 he had to replace one string/key, however the piano in his opinion was in great shape given the lack of care it had been given. Today the tuner said she tuned it to standard pitch and said once again it is in great shape. So in the end not much of a story but I can see this instrument ending in one of my children's homes some day and wanted to have written down what I do know.

excited

We have been searching for a summer sitter for the past 6 weeks or so. The kids requested the most fun and prettiest one! We have managed to find I think just the right one for our family. This was the kids reaction when we told them who we had hired. They were more than thrilled!! we are looking forward to more laid back days of summer and all the fun these 4 will be having with Miss Kelsey.

Nurse's Day

May 6th is Nurse's Day. Happy nurses day a bit late to all the nurses I am blessed to have in my life. I hope each of you had a great day. I had a surprise delivery and I was surprised to learn it was from a very sweet patient family. We have become friends with this family outside of my work and we feel very lucky to have them in our lives. Thank you for making my day!!

Bliss

My doctor gives me, his phone nurse and his wife a spa package for Christmas. We joke and call ourselves the 3 wives. It is a day of massages, manicure, pedicure and lunch. The spa labels it as "Day of Bliss". It is completely wonderful and awesome. This is our third year of this tradition and this year we made a day of it. We went to a girl movie and then out to dinner. It was completely wonderful and relaxing!! Thanks Dr. Shawn you are the best!!

May Day

 Happy May Day!! We assembled some clearance Easter bags with popcorn and candy that I had picked up after the holiday. We all put on our jackets because once again it was a very cool outside,  we headed to the neighbors to delivery their bags in secret. We managed to catch all of our May Day deliveries, no kisses were exchanged but everyone in the neighborhood were very happy.