Seedlings, seedlings

These are the round 1&2 seedlings. In here we have peppers (sunbright and california wonder), tomatoes (sweetie cherry, beefsteak, endless summer) and cucumbers (straight 8, sweet garden).

All but one of the seedlings have come up. I can't wait for planting time! Next weekend we'll start the next round of seedlings including the squash, zucchini, watermelon, cantaloupe, onions.

I'm so hoping we have a better garden year than we did last year. We planted on a Sunday and Monday started a string of 23 days of rain. Let's just say we didn't get off to a good start.

Cutie Patootie

So we learned that Anna is incredibly farsighted. Apparently one eye is significantly worse than the other eye - so she has a lazy eye (amblyopia) meaning one eye is significantly weaker than the other. It doesn't drift or cross, but she is in danger of losing sight in the eye that does not work as well.


She is very excited about wearing glasses - and could not wait for us to pick them up. She picked them out and there was no 2nd choice for her - these were IT for her. "I'm excited because I'm going to be the ONLY one in my class with glasses!" I love how much of an individual she is.

She complained today that the glasses hurt her eyes (which we expected until her eyes get used to them) but she also admitted it was fun because she can see little letters now.



I think she's cute with or without the glasses!

I didn't realize how bad her sight was until I looked through her lenses. Whoa. One of the lenses is as thick as the rim - and I can't see anything through it.

I can't wait to see what she can do now that she can see the world around her!

Drowning

Ever feel like you are drowning?

Right now is one of those times for me. In the scheme of things, it's not even that bad for us, we've definitely been through worse, much worse. I think I'm just overwhelmed. I keep waiting for something to happen to be that deep gulp of air, to be able to reach land and stop treading water even if it's just a sandbar.

I try to be positive - it takes every ounce of my energy, but I try. Lately even my optimism is clouded with well, clouds.

We will get through this, we will survive and I know we'll all be stronger/better/happier for it. I just really want that to start now. I want our hard work to pay off. I want to have things be easier for a while.

I want to reach the shore - even if that means we have mountains to climb.

I'm drowning.