Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of sidewalk chalk...

aGLORY TO GOD, a beautiful day in February!!  We began by putting on our boots...never mind changing out of our pajamas, and heading to the Chick-fil-a drive thru for today's free breakfast item. Oh, I'm sorry...did you not KNOW that Chick-fil-a is giving away a free breakfast item every day in February? Yes, they are. And yes, we have been.  Many times.
That aside, we headed out...and then headed back...and then, (gasp!) played OUTSIDE!!! It was marvelous...such a freeing feeling to be out breathing in the fresh air.

Not only that, but I discovered today that we have a bazillion little buds popping up already!  Some have even bloomed! That is crazy to me- it's February!!  When I saw the little reminders of new life, I remembered this happening this last year too.  We live in a very old little house...1925 to be exact...and a little old lady used to live there and garden...like crazy garden.  We have bulbs EVERYWHERE in our yard.  In all seriousness, there are definitely over 200 hundred bulbs of this same flower pictured above in a patch of our yard.  I wish I could go back in time and see what this little lady was like.  I'm sure she had a design going on...(I say that because there isn't one now.  The next guy who moved in after her neglected the yard for 12 years.)...and I'm sure she spent hours and hours in the yard.  I'm sure she was diligent and patient and caring.
Sadly, like I said, the next guy who moved in...I'm not sure he was any of those.  The yard now is a HUGE project.  I would LOVE to salvage some of the bulbs and move them to different places...there are seriously different flowers that pop up every month all through Summer into the Fall. I want to preserve the beauty and history of the house...but I'm also a little overwhelmed at where to start....I suppose I should just try it out.
Kory and I want to landscape as we can afford it...move things, build retaining walls, a dry creek bed, lay sod, you know, the works...we'll see what I can salvage from all of the amazing- though overgrown or weirdly placed- plants and flowers.  I am sure it will happen in stages, so stay tuned.

It was a fun morning.
I was glad for that because our afternoon wasn't as enjoyable...
McLean has had pink eye this week and long story short, we ended up having to make an appointment with a Pediatric Ophthalmologist.  First off, I didn't even realize they HAD Pediatric eye doctors, but I guess it makes sense.  Well, this guy that we saw was very much NOT pediatric-minded.  He didn't look me in the eye one time, talked to me very bluntly and hurried with his back to me, and did not engage McLean at all- who was sitting like a scared mouse in that big black chair.  I almost had a few snippy words to say to him SEVERAL times in our visit.  McLean did AWESOME and was very brave, however...as anyone looking that closely in your eye can be scary (Even I still almost laugh every time I go in to get my vision checked for my contacts.  It's weird!).  Well, we walked out without getting kicked out, and I will not be returning to that guy...Dr. Cibis...for those of you who want to know who NOT to go to.  So, now we have drops to do every two hours and hopefully we will be rid of the nasty eye "boogies" (McLean's words) very soon.
All in all, the weather made up for the nasty part of the day....I can't wait for Spring!...Though, actually, after our eye specialist visit AND a Pediatrition visit this week, we might need another little snow so Kory can work to pay off the freaking medical bills.