Baby Steps

In tiny increments--baby steps--spring is returning to Indiana.  It is 70 degrees outside right now, and the sun is shining.  The grass, such as is left of it after last summer's drought, is greening.  The perennials are coming up--although they've been TRYING to come up for a month. 

Also in baby steps, I am getting the house back to the normal condition of messiness that it was before the family was here.  The towels have all been washed, folded, and put away.  I have clean sheets on my bed.  I have swept up the cat litter.  Cleaned out the refrigerator of foods that should have been eaten but weren't.  (I tried!)  I mailed Ryan's soccer Easter bunny that he accidentally left behind, and have found some pictures of my late former stepson that I need to mail to his wife. 

And, as is my yearly quest, I have purchased a couple of patio table covers, which means (I hope) that I will actually get the patio livable for the first time in many years.  Woo-hoo!

But you know what I consider a happenstance victory??  I had two baby things in a plastic blanket bag that had somehow found its way to the patio.  One is a flower thingie that my grandmother made for a cousin's baby...a wrap, of sorts.  It's made of yarn in semi-crocheted flowers--not even really safe for a baby because there are too many ways for finger and toes to get trapped and strangled--but my Baba made it.  (She passed on in 1975.)  The other was the one remaining receiving blanket that my mother made for my baby Megan.  Okay...so both of these treasures were in a pastic bag out on the patio.  (Don't ask why.  I don't know!)  For months, I have looked at that bag that had big drops of condensated water on the inside, thinking that it surely must be full of mold and mildew.  The outside of the bag was filthy with yard dirt.  I just put off doing anything with it, fearing the worst.  Yesterday, I took the bull by the horns and opened the bag.  Both items were predictably sopped, but there was no mildew on either, even after months of being in that condition!!  I brought them in.  They are dry now and will be treated better.  Hallelujah!

I keep walking into Robin's room to look at it because it is now the cutest room in the house.  Need to get busy to finish the furniture painting, but it still looks good.  Other rooms need attention.  Will get to them...in baby steps.