the more we care…

3 Positives:
SLEEP
quiet
more sleep

Our Journey Notes:
Monday, I threw caution to the wind and got caught up on all but two of the needed vaccines my doctor recommended. I paid for it all night and all day yesterday. Grateful they’re done and checked off the list, but I hadn’t anticipated getting knocked on my keister again. Feeling much better today. No dizziness, fever, or headache. Just a very sore arm. I do have to return to get a second dose for one of the vaccines, but that is the only shot I’m getting! I did sleep for a good portion of the day and was able to sleep for at least 4 hours without waking up. That is definitely progress.

On to the better days..

3 Positives:
a lovely Easter Sunday – warm with lots of sunshine and blue skies
reflection time
A lovely pared down Easter dinner

Our Journey Notes:
Getting a Tetanus, RSV and the first Shingles shots noted on my vaccine card a little later today. Finally getting those checked off the “long” list. Grateful for a local pharmacy that has a small clinic and is providing this service. We’ll see how things go from there and will set up the return visit for the second Shingles shot while I’m there.

Behind the storm…

3 Positives:
It snowed here in the valley and in the mountains
delicious soup on a cold spring evening
repaired the zipper on T’s heavy winter coat. He can now wear it today.

Our Journey Notes:
T’s eye appointment went as expected with just a bit of good news. Both eyes have stabilized, but the left eye pressure is still a little on the high side. Right eye is 20/80 and the left eye didn’t have a reading listed when I checked the visit notes. He’s down to two meds instead of the 6 he was on prior to the surgery. From the sound of things — he’ll continue with those for the long term.

I heard from my doctor about a med that he’d suggested stopping this year. His recommendation was to continue taking it until our next appointment this fall. I agreed and called in for a refill. The new health app makes it a lot easier to get answers and fairly quickly without having to call in and ask for a callback and have to go through a list of questions before getting to the real reason for the call. It’s like one and done with the app.

I’m still using lists to help with memory stuff. Routines are definitely helpful – and if I get out of sync, I can generally fall back to the routine fairly easily or check the list and start there and not get freaked out about having “lost my way.” Still tweaking the planner/calendar thing to tighten a few things up, but for the most part, we’re doing good at the moment.

We’ll miss you card

This was a Pinterest inspiration. There are days that something just fits the bill and doesn’t take all day to create. This was one of those quick and easy projects…..

Talk bubble shape is from the SCAL library. Created an inset shadow and changed the outline to dashed. Added another shadow at .075 to go behind the talk bubble. I decided that I would add this as an additional element rather than just having a single layer print and cut… though I think that would work nicely as well. The background paper for the rounded large rectangle was from Creative Fabrica – though I’m not sure it’s still available as I purchased the collection several years ago. The fun font is from Adobe. It’s fun to use more than one font and size for this sentiment.

The bubbles and rectangle are filled with color and pattern and then sent to the printer. Cut using the SCAL 6 software with the Skycut C24 plotter. I really do like my cutter. Print to cut is generally spot on and I don’t have to add a bleed to the shape so ensure an accurate cut.

Hoping you’ll have some time to spend in your creative space soon! Have a great day!