It has been in the 50's and 60's here for the past several days. The kids have been running outside directly after breakfast to play in the mud and explore the temporary
"stream" that appears here every spring. Yesterday we had school outside. For the second day in a row I woke up and hung the laundry on the line in the early morning sun.
Aside from our happy spring fever, we had a little scare with Jackson last night having to do with a fever of a different sort. He had been complaining of a headache and then last night he spiked a temperature of 103.2. Then he said his neck hurt and of course all we could think of was meningitis. So he and I spent 3 and 1/2 hours in the ER and several tests later we found out thankfully that all is well. Today his fever is gone but he is in a lot of pain from the tests and there is a small part of me that wishes I just would have waited until morning to make a decision. Hindsight I guess. But in any case he is okay and of course we are so grateful for that.
Our dryer has been broken for a month or so and Ryan and I thinking very seriously about not ever fixing it. While it does add one more thing to my to do list, I love the idea of being freed of one more appliance and moving just a tiny step closer to our 10 year plan (someday I'll write about that here). Plus about 50% of the time I really like hanging the laundry up. I think if I work at it I could increase that percentage.
Everyday when I walk out to let the chickens out I gently tap my boot on one of the garden beds to see how much it has thawed. I think a few more days of this weather and I'll be planting peas and lettuce.
