You are very weclome!

Beautiful profile!

of course! i hope you have the most wonderful birthday and that you and your child are doing well ♥️

Overall it ended up being nearly an entire 12-pk of costco tissues that we went through! Jude has been feeling better for about a week, but I'm still getting over the cough more than 2 weeks later. I'm so glad that you and Nathan didn't catch it. My immune system is normally amazing at fighting things off quickly, but this was awful for me (Jude did get hit significantly less hard by it, so idk how normal my experience was). Still not fun for either of us to get. I'm so far behind on housework, dishes, and garden chores because of it. I tried to do some light garden work before the weekend and I was fine during it, but afterwards I found out that my lungs had some very strong opinions against it. The coughing got worse, and I think it set my recovery back a few days. So far today feels a lot better.

Bummer on your spring allergies :( . Pollen must be worse right now because of all of the trees blooming. Have you otherwise been enjoying Washington? We've had less rain and warmer weather this spring than most. I'm getting a little worried about how hot this summer will be. The entire state was declared to be in a drought because we haven't gotten enough rain, and even the mountains did not get enough snow. Some of the strawberry plants in my garden have already dried up and died, and my golden raspberry plants have already gotten sunburnt but should still produce. I never even realized that they were in such dire conditions because in the past I've made it all the way through April with no watering or shade cloth. Thankfully now I have the hose set up (and have a drip watering kit on the way), so I don't think I'll have anymore garden casualties. Costco has plants now btw, if you're still wanting to do some container planting! They have some nice large planters as well. Last time we were there they had blueberries, tomatoes, basil, peppers, fruit trees, and lots of different flowers.

Ohhh right. I think you did tell me before that he was in the military. 19 years is a long time! Makes sense that he'd have long hours in the military. That must be even tougher now that you have a baby to care for.

Jude loves his job and the work life balance has been good. Currently not worried about layoffs, and he has Fridays off so we try to cram in a bunch of errands before the weekend starts. Fridays are convenient for scheduling dr appointments and such as well.

We've not tried Animal Crossing in years so we're probably pretty far behind on updates. It's such a shame that they don't allow multiple saves/islands. Knowing that you regret starting over, I don't think I'm willing to restart my island even though I normally struggle to get back into games without starting over. I can tolerate replaying grindy gameplay in most games, but AC feels different, less satisfying, maybe because progression isn't rewarded quite like other games. Did you have island backups turned on? Maybe it's possible to restore your old island?

You're welcome ❤️ I hope you and a great day!