Is it Spring yet?!

Isaac today said "It's been MORE than six weeks of winter!" and I agree! He of course was talking about the whole groundhogs day thing, but I am READY for spring to come. It's just a rainy, yucky day today. We spent the morning at the library and now I'm being lazy on my computer instead of mopping my sticky kitchen floor.

I've found a powdered milk solution for our family. I've been trying to use our powdered milk, so we can rotate it and actually use the milk. I honestly can't stand the taste though, so I've been using it in my Slimfast breakfast shake and occasionally for baking. Some nice lady at church gave the suggestion of adding non-fat dairy creamer to it to make it more rich, so I tried it and it worked! I make the milk in 2 qt. batches and add 1/4 c. creamer (the dry kind) and it is good. Definitly cheaper than "real" milk, and in a pinch we could drink powdered milk with minimal moans at house. Jesse would probably still complain, but he's spoiled :).

My "house" plants are dying. We bring the outside potted plants inside every winter, and by spring they are a miserable mess. They always make a comeback once they put back in their natural habitat though. I like living in a humid environment that rains frequently. I don't have to think about taking care of the plants.

I'm starting to think about our garden this year. I say "our garden", but really it's Jesse's. We have a five foot square patch of dirt we plant a few tomatoes and few other veggies every spring and Jesse takes care of it all summer. I have a gardening friend at church that has volunteered to give us a shoot from her blackberry bush. She says it grows like a weed and it's domesticated so it doesn't have thorns. I love blackberries, so I'm really excited to see how it does in our back yard.

We still don't really know what we're doing come August. Jesse's contract is up with Lilly then, but his research hasn't been going as well as he expected, so it's kind of "wait and see" for us. I'm hoping he'll either get offered a permanent position or get his contract extended for another year. There are a few finishing touches on the house to have it be ready to sell and another year would be awesome. BUT, if he ends up finding a job somewhere (hopefully closer to family) we'll take it and hopefully sell the house.

We've started seeing another fertility specialist! We aren't in a rush mode to get pregnant again (although we've been trying for the last two years), but we'd like to have some answers if there are any. I really like this doctor we're seeing, he's on the same page as us with getting a diagnosis if we can find one and tweeking the hormones as necessary. He agrees that it's probably my pituitary tumor messing around with my hormones a little. In fact, this doctor's sister has a pituitary tumor, so he's familiar with these tumors and feels comfortable being my endocrinologist for the remaineder of the time that spend here in Indy. I'm really excited to see what's up, even if the diagnosis is that we're done having kids. It's the not knowing that's hard part. The economical side of me is wanting to hold onto the baby stuff "just in case", but if we're done I'm ready to get rid of things. I'd definitly like to purge our house of a lot of "stuff"!