The neighbor’s forsythia bush bloomed this week, and our son and I worried that the frost that came the next day might kill it. At first, it looked like it had, but today more buds came out on not only it but the lilac bush in the backyard and many other trees around our house.

Yes, frost in early April. I am among those who are depressed about it being so cold in spring, but I remember the year we moved here, there was snow on the ground in May.

Talk about a depressing sight! I’ll take the up and down temperatures for now over snow, but my sinuses, specifically my inner ear, are not pleased with the roller coaster weather changes that have been happening for more than a month now.

We’ve gone from 30-degree temps to temps in the 70s from one day to the next some weeks. It’s also been very gloomy, with the sun often hiding behind clouds.

Today, however, we do have some sun, and it will be getting up into the 50s. In addition to the forsythia, there are daffodils growing up at my neighbors’ too.

Their bushes and flowers are so far away from their house due to their absolutely huge front yard that they really can’t see or enjoy the flowers or bush that pop up in the spring anyhow so we enjoy them for them.

With spring weather comes skunk mating season, of course, and with skunk mating season comes more skunks in our yard which is probably why our youngest cat, Cass, was sprayed last Friday, as I mentioned in my post last week. We didn’t realize until a couple days later that the skunk probably got him in the eye and we only realized this when his right eye started gooping up with infection.  

The vet was nice enough to mail us medicine so we wouldn’t have to make the 45-minutes drive north but my Thursday Cass’s second eye was infected and by Friday the medicine had not arrived, so we headed to the vet to pick up an extra tube.

Between his nightly crying that started before the skunk incident, and now this, Cass is a bit of a handful, but he loves the kids and enjoys curling up with them and they love him as well. At first his adoration was for Little Miss but earlier today he saw The Boy in the kitchen window and came running to try to get to him, just at the sight of him.

He’s not a big fan of me anymore because I am the one who has to wipe his eye or put the medicine in.

Last weekend we went to my parents for Easter Sunday and The Husband hid some eggs for Little Miss to find.

I’m not sure how much longer that tradition will last since she will be 12 this year, but I am enjoying it while I can.

This upcoming week won’t be super busy, that I know of. I will be sitting with Mom one day since Dad has a doctor’s appointment and will take Little Miss to her art class on Friday. That’s another 45-minute drive because as I have mentioned more than once on this blog, it seems just about everything is a 45-minute drive from where we live.

I didn’t do as well this week with staying off social media. I wasn’t on Instagram a ton, but I was on it more than I wanted to be.  I barely go on Facebook anymore because of how awful it has become. I no longer see updates from my friends. Instead, they are always pushing pages at me that I have no interest in. Many of the stories on there are also AI generated and full of inaccuracies and sometimes out and out lies.

I’ve had a stuffed right ear for about a week or more so some mornings it was easier to sit for a while and scroll. However, there were a couple of mornings where I broke myself out of that habit and sat and read a book or devotional instead. Those mornings were much more relaxed, so I hope to do more of that this week.

I hope to do more “analogue” thinks like journaling, sketching, and reading in general this week. The most relaxed I feel is when I am drawing, coloring, or messing around with my junk journal while watching an old movie.

How was your week last week? Have anything exciting on tap for next week? Let me know in the comments!