April showers bring flowers, mud puddles and weeds

We have had at least a week of rain... yes, yes, I know April showers bring May flowers. But do you know what else April showers bring? Weeds. Yes,

the flowers coming up but so are the weeds. In fact, they are coming 

up faster than I can pull them. 

And then there is mud. The girls moved into their new digs last weekend and

they are enjoying digging around in the mud for worms.  We have a new 
feeder and waterer system to put in that we planned on doing this weekend

but the rain stalled that idea. Keeping their water clean in all this rain is a full-time job.

We managed to make it through March and most of April without a huge

health scare. I mean we still have the platelet issues and Hannah's iron/ red 

blood cell thing going on...but, Easter was relatively quiet. Very thankful 

for a respite.

I was thinking back to when Cody first started having infusions and on months when we would have 2 the trauma would sideline me with depression. Now with both Hannah and Lucas having them, we do at least 2 sometimes 3. It's amazing how it just becomes normal.

My friend who visited us just recently, who has her own barrage of medical people coming in an out, said (when talking about our cart of medical supplies) 'Oh, doesn't everyone have that in their living room? 😉.' It's

become old hat but never gotten easier. What does make it worthwhile is to see Luke on the pitching mound and Hannah leap across the stage at dance. It gives me perspective, that while those things are not painless activities for them... they able to do them which might not be an option without the medicine.

  

Life is all about choices. I am choosing joy!  I will take the mud puddles and the weeds for the flowers.