Happy Birthday Jeffrey!

What better way to start off a weatherman's birthday weekend than with a day of snow!  Yes it snowed most of the day on Saturday with just accumulation on the grass and cars.  Welcome spring!  I hope that this was winter's final hurrah for the year! We need to see more of those flowers.

Hope played in the championship game Saturday afternoon and ended up losing to Wash-U from St. Louis. The girls played hard, but the balls just weren't  through the hoops.  The referee's were less than stellar.  There should have been better officiating for a championship game.  Even the announcers called the game expecting Hope to lose.  It made me pretty mad. Kind of like the doctor we saw later in the afternoon.......

.....Mary has had a a sore throat on and off since last Monday. Saturday afternoon it became almost unbearable. I took her to urgernt care at a nearby hospital, not Greenville.  After checking in with nursing and registration, the doctor waltzed in with a preconceived idea of strep throat.  Mary said she felt like she was in a sitcom.  He talked fast, "forgot" his pen and had to go by memory, and pretty much dismissed any other potential problems that could cause her symptoms. What a clown. He gave us a prescription for Penicillin and told us to see our own doctor this week.  The story doesn't end there.  We got back to Greenville and get the meds, but all the pharmacies close by 7 pm on Saturday.  It was 7 pm....no prescription. So, after dinner Mary and I drove into Grand Rapids to fill the prescription at a 24 hour Walgreens.  Got home around 10:30 pm.

Since then, I have practiced the piano, readied myself for sunday school and baked a birthday cake.  Thought I had better blog because tomorrow will be family day!  Sarah travels home from Illinois and we plan on picking her up for  Spring Break in the afternoon.  We will also be having lunch out and getting Matthew some cleats for baseball.  Mary wants to look for material for a prom dress that she plans to sew.. Hmmm. One month until prom. Guess we will wait and see how she feels tomorrow.  I hope she feels good, I 'd like to have her playing cello in the orchestra in the morning.  Her health comes first.  Can't forget bowling in the evening.  Matthew is going to the movies while we bowl.  I think he is going to see ALice in Wonderland.

Amazed at the March Madness results!  Kansas is gone along with other top seeded teams! What will happen next?  Stay tuned!

Gracie