What a month this has been! Luckily it ended on a really wonderful note!!! As always this time of year is tough with so many different 'trigger' times in it. It starts with Mother's Day and finalizes with Father's Day, with the Rose parade and my birthday in between. This year my birthday and Father's Day followed one day after another. I typically have anxiety problems in my gut but that was extremely low level this years since I finally had my hormone levels checked and found out they were WAY out of whack. I technically should have been having more issues then I was having!! This year the anxiety went to the next vulnerable area, my neck and shoulders. I had fifth disease in my early 30's and that's where it really settled. I literally couldn't move my head for months and now have arthritis there because of it. Luckily I have a awesome Bowenworks lady that worked with my neck and shoulders and it has helped tremendously! I can almost completely turn my head to both sides. It's taken 3 weeks to do it though!! I know having Scarlet's issue with diabetes didn't help matters any but a lot of things are just the way they are and you can't do anything about it. So you learn to deal. And pray!!! I truly think that's why I wasn't worse mood wise with my out of whack hormones. I know it helped years ago when I'd have my monthly crankiness!! :)
Now on to my wonderful day yesterday! :) I got taken to a little tea house in West Linn. Awesome place!!! There's a cute little store and they have a tea room in the back. The food is soooo good!!! You get a little bit of this and a little bit of that as well as a pot of tea. Lots of teas to choose from! They even do gluten free and what they substitute for the scone is so light and yummy!! You'd never know it's was gluten free. There were 6 of us and 3 of us had birthday's yesterday! 2 hours later we had to leave so the next batch of people could come in to eat. They do the reservations in 2 hour shifts. There was an 11, 1, 3 and maybe 5? I think it's called Blue Moon. I'm thinking this would be a lovely tradition to set. Go to the Blue Moon for my birthday each year.
From there I went to the Red, White and Blue store. I found a very pretty dishware set for $20. 12 plates, 12 saucer plates, 11 salad plates, 10 bowls and 7 cups. Here's a picture of what it looks like:
I love, love, love the pattern!!! Now I can get rid of the 25 year old everyday dishes. I was more then ready for a new set but have been keeping an eye out at this store since they have such awesome bargains. I also found a bunch of Bernstein Bear and Magic School Bus books for the girls. The pack's of books are between $2.95 and $4.95 and you get around 8 books per a pack. I also found a really nice purse for $3 and a pack of office supplies that had really cute kitty stationary in it as well as a couple of other packs of stationary, a couple of notebooks that I know are worth at least $5 each, rubber bands, glue sticks etc. All of that was just over $40!!! My birthday treat to me thanks to a friend giving me birthday money! I highly recommend that store! They have really amazing stuff for very reasonable prices. I just looked them up and they're actually in 9 different states!
After that I got taken to dinner by my Mother-in-Law. Black Angus has the most awesome fried zucchini and cucumber dip! Yummmm!!! And I got to see Blake and Erika and the girls. Christina was there as well. :) On a side note, I'm out of touch with restaurant prices... they're getting ridiculous, but then so are the grocery store prices so I guess it makes sense.
And then lunch with Lee I. today. A lovely way to end a stress filled month!!!
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