happy April Fool's day!

and happy birthday to my oldest son...

he is 33 years old today...

and the rest of the photos from our day outside yesterday...

purple finch...

Mr Wiggles...

he likes to follow us all over the place...

so many things are popping up every day now...

a Bebe moment...

he turned 15 in March...

its a good time to plant lettuce...

I never do, but thinking it would make some pretty foliage...

mostly day lilies here...

some crocus and tulips in front...

all hands in the hopper...

we had so much help...

the lilac buds...

got the mums cut back and most of the leaves out of here...

rose bushes aren't easy to clean around...

the crocus bloom...

can't wait until its warm enough to run the hose!

needs a good scrubbing and probably another coat of paint this year...

hoping its safe enough to put this away...

as soon as Craig leaves for work, I will have a day for me!

I am going back to bed, first, though...

didn't sleep good last night...

you all have a good day where you are...

;)

the unearthing has begun!

just a very quick post here...

got so much to show you...

my cardinals do not fight at all...

they all live in our shrubs out front...

isn't he pretty...

finally saw a female one this morning...

they were playing chase, so babies will be coming...

we went out first thing this morning and filled the feeders...

then we started finding things...

what could that be?

lots of green things...

and my first crocus of this spring...

should be open by this afternoon...

lots and lots and lots of leaves...

thank you, Lord, for putting in my head the need to pile them on last fall...

even got some rearranging done here...

it got plenty of work done this morning...

some of my favorite things...

love how this pot has aged...

tulips...

more...

worked on the beds we didn't get to yesterday...

before the winds pick up...

lots of green here and I even think out grass is greener today...

so there you go...

we came in and did lunch and I am going to lie down for a bit...

got to do mashed potatoes and hash browns when I get up and some piddle fartin. in here...

;)

Sunday blessings...

guess who came home this morning?

I was watching the birds about 7 this morning and this little guy came strolling across the yard...

I yelled- 'its Hermie!'

ran to the door and yelled his name...

probably woke the neighbors...

and he came running hard and was in my arms so quick...

he was so happy to be home again and he had to meet and greet everyone...

then we worked on breakfast...

for us...

and Annie got hers...

she's a growler...

Hermie is a little thinner, but not bad...

he was gone 9 days...

he has been eating at the neighbor who feeds all the strays...

just 3 doors down...

took him long enough to find his way home...

but the wind finally died this morning...

I just don't think he could hear us and the wind scared him so much...

he laid low until it quit...

and so we have our blessing for today...

thank you, Lord, for taking care of him while he was gone...

;)

Bella left for her new home last night...

and Waffles just went out the door for his...

2 down, 2 to go!

happy Sunday to you!

;)

it's been a great day here!

first of all, thank you for all the support and prayers...

they mean so much...

and as bad as yesterday was, today has been the total opposite...

I got up at 4am feeling wonderful...

got my shower, got dressed and did the hair and make up without any problems...

so we took off out of here around 6:30, was there at the hospital when they 'opened' for business...

got right in, took 5 whole minutes and we were on to having fun...

some walmart shopping and some fun things later...

we pulled into McDonald's for breakfast...

it was nice being out with my guys this morning...

in the rainy, crappy weather, but we didn't seem to mind...

came home, put stuff up...

piddled around a bit and then took a nap...

got kids coming this afternoon sometime...

when we got up, we cleaned house and cooked...

made spaghetti and cole slaw...

even have my oldest son's birthday stuff all ready for him when he gets here...

can you believe he will be 33 on the 1st?

my blood sugar is close to being in the normal range...

and we adopted out another baby...

can't get much better than that...

;)

hope you are all having a wonderful weekend...

bless your hearts for hanging in there with me...

through thick and thin...

love you all!

;)

some days, I get so aggravated...

I do not mean to complain...

well, maybe I do...

it's days like this that I get so aggravated with this fibromayalgia...

and at doctors who don't seem to listen to me...

you know, they don't have all the answers...

not all of them...

had my 8:30 appointment this morning...

and I do not mind waiting when I am not flairing...

but if I am, I am in agony just being there...

first appointment of the day...

should have gotten right in and right out...

but not this morning...

and I know I am not the only person in the world who needs to see the doctor...

but its at those moments, I hate having this...

when I have no control over my pain or my energy...

and I ran out of steam pretty quickly...

and after checking me...

he ordered a chest xray, to see why this stuff came back...

normally, it wouldn't be a problem...

but today...

I didn't have the energy to do it...

so I took the paper from the nurse and told her...

I just can't do it today...

she said it was my call...

so we came home and I went to bed and crashed...

we can go back in the morning to do it...

and it might work out better...

but I hate not being to plan something and carrying it out...

I hate that sometimes we have to ditch everything and run home...

and you never know when its going to happen...

and it just stinks...

and I have been praying for this attitude to go away, but I am struggling today with it...

I let it go one minute and grab it back the next...

sometimes I just miss being 'normal'...

so if you know someone with fibro...

and I know you cannot completely understand what we go through...

but just try to remember...

we are more frustrated than you are when it comes to dealing with it...

we can't control it anymore than we can control the weather...

and we don't do it on purpose to get out of things...

and we would really like to make plans and go out and eat or have you over for dinner...

because some days all we need is for people to cut us some slack...

and we really need to do that for ourselves, too...

and don't give up on us...

we may not be able to keep up anymore...

but we are worth holding onto...

because when God takes something away...

its to give you something greater in return...

and even though I know that He is making me better, stronger, more compassionate...

there are some days that I would like to be weak and ignorant...

and if I was, just look at all the things in these photos He sent to me today...

I would have missed them...

I will stomp and huff until this funk is shaken off...

that's how I make them go away...

thanks for letting me rant on...

I just need to purge this darkness that has fallen over me...