Spring has arrived!

It's hard to believe we have only been home from vacation for a couple of weeks. I think we're both ready for another one! Work has been keeping us extremely busy (reason that we didn't add an entry last week). In some ways, it is nice to be busy because the time passes quickly, but when we don't see each other until 10 every night, it gets a little old! Fortunately, we are planning a mini-vacation to Nantucket over Memorial Weekend. Can you tell we are trying to see everything in New England before we move? Once we do that, the only thing left is NY City, hard to believe we haven't done that one yet! We met a great couple in St. Lucia who live in the City so we are hoping to visit them sometime in December.


On another front, we got our car back yesterday and she looks fabulous! She even has the new car smell still. I am so amused that is took nearly four weeks, cost thousands of dollars, and on the receipt, the body shop describes the work as "minor repairs." Go figure!

For those curious about the "knee saga," it looks like I may get to run as early as next Saturday. I am so ready! Now that the weather is getting nice, I want to get out there. Even Garrett has started going for runs outside. I told him he picked a fine time to start doing that. I think it is a bit insensitive, but he claims he is just making sure he will be able to run with me in the races, yeah right :) This week consisted of three brutal physical therapy sessions. I think Dutch takes pleasure in causing me pain. However, I can't be mad when I see how much progress I am making. When I started this whole ordeal six weeks ago, I could barely move my leg, now I can fully straighten it, and I'm bending to about 140 degrees. The bending is the hardest and most brutal part of therapy (I have no shame, I scream out loud for all to hear) but I'm getting so much better and I can attempt running when I can bend 145 degrees. Since I was only at 128 degrees on Tuesday, I think (and Dutch agrees) I am progressing very quickly and should be there by next Saturday. Of course,I think I could jog now but Dutch wants me to wait, and then when I do start, I have to do it on a treadmill in front of him. He is such a slave driver! Oh well, I'm done until Tuesday.

This weekend, assuming the rain stays away, we are planning to work in our garden. The strawberries and raspberries look great already. Now we are planting the veggies. We love having fresh fruit, vegetables, and herbs during the summer. Sometimes I think it would be nice to live in a climate where we could have our garden year round. Then again, I would probably miss the snow. Can't win :)

Hope everyone had a great Cinco de Mayo yesterday!