Northern Mom

We had a great Easter Morning! At 630am Jo was in our room so excited because The Easter Bunny left her some eggs. I opened my eyes and told her to look in her room to see if the Easter Bunny left her a basket and maybe there were more eggs hidden. She was all over the living room looking for them. They were pretty easy to find and she didn't realize that there was a bunch of goodies to go with the eggs.

She spent the better part of an hour riding the bike outside. It took all of about 3 minutes for her to figure it all out. She cam in a slept for 3 hours. I can't decided if it was the bike riding or the chocolate she ate for breakfast that brought on the huge nap! Her Uncle raked the driveway so that it would be in great shape for a bike ride. It will be much nicer when we get it paved. She even took the bike to my dad's for supper and rode it the whole time there. Her cousins took off on their bikes and she tried to keep up. She tried so hard, but they are 10 and their bikes go a little faster.

Today was a great day weather wise. We were out this morning and played with the girls across the street, had a nap and we were back out again. It's nice when there are other kids to play with. No school is a nice thing somedays.

My friend that I wrote about last week is handling things some what well. She said that if she doesn't think about it then it's not so bad. The kids don't know and they are really trying to keep it that way. She and her siblings went to see him on the weekend and sounded like a rough time. We don't really talk about it unless she brings it up. I did call her and told her that we are here for her for whatever reason and that what happened is no reflection of her.

I did get some good news! A friend of mine who after 3 years of TTC (trying to conceive), countless IUI's found out that her first IVF was successful! Her embryo quality was amazing. One of her embryo's was at the morula stage at day 3! They were able to freeze 2 more that made it past the blastocyst stage at day 5. I haven't talked to her yet to find out her HCG levels. I do know however that it is indeed a positive and am only thinking positive thoughts. She has had 2 early miscarriages. I am hoping that this will be a wonderful Christmas for her!

Hmmm what else?

Did I mention that we had a wet basement this weekend too. A few times since we've owned the house we have had water in the front corner. Hubby took the drywall out at one point to see where it was coming from and never found it. We just left it and didn't have water again....until Wednesday night. Of course the snow is gone, so where did the water come from? Hubby again took the drywall out and went so far as to take the studs out where he could see the water running. It looks like the previous owners decided to move the water meter and cut the pipe, but never capped it. It has been covered for the time being and once my brother moves out we will fix it properly and put the water mystery to rest. I'm almost scared to start these renos. We have a plug in the kitchen that only half of worked. It didn't take long to figure out that if the dryer and the fridge were running at the same time we blew a fuse. The wiring for the dryer is scary. There is 110 from one plug and another 110 from the plug behind the fridge to run the dryer. If that's the kind of wiring, I wonder what else we'll find once we really get going.

I've been feeling pretty tired lately. Not sure if it's the change of seasons or that I am becoming immuned to my meds again. I've been on these one for the longest time and I fear it's time to have them changed. I'm running out of options. I suffer from depression and the list of meds that don't work anymore is longer that this list of those that I can try. I think too that not being at work is taking a toll as well. I guess it's time to make a Dr's appt and get a whole work up done.

I'm off for the night!