Time flies

Just a few short weeks ago I remember wishing that summer would just get here. I had had it with North Eastern Ohio's winters and was ready to move on. Now I wonder where the time went. This past weekend I have finally gotten many of my favorite signs that winter is gone and summer is moving in. Now when I talk about signs of Summer most people think of flowers, or maybe the sounds of grass being mowed, or kids playing outside, or something like this. These things have been obvious here for quite a while but I have still been waiting. What are my signs you ask ? A couple of my signs were evident this last weekend. First The local comedy club has started advertising for their "laugh club" . This is a deal where you attend a comedy show at the end of May where you pay twenty dollars per person to get in instead of thirteen. Then you get tickets at this show to see any and all shows between June and August for free. Mike and I have been members of this club for four or five years now. It is so nice to be able to go out every weekend in the summer and know that all it is going to cost us is the price of a couple drinks . This takes care of Mom and Dad's entertainment for the summer but the poor kids need something too. Our answer to this is Cedar Fair amusement parks season passes. These passes are good at many amusement parks but we generally only visit the Ohio parks, Cedar Point and Geauga Lake. This year however Cedar Fair has purchased Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Though this is a much smaller park than Cedar Point and a lot further of a drive than both other parks, we are looking forward to visiting it. Mike and I visited this park once on our First anniversary seventeen years ago. I personally don't remember much about it other than missing Cindy who was just a month old and was being spoiled by Nanny for the day . I remember that Since my pregnancy was comparable to nine months of the flu. Then it ended in a C-section with an epidural that went bad and caused me two days of leaking spinal fluid.This rendered me dizzy,nauseous,and unable to get out of bed without passing out and falling to the floor.Finally an anesthesiologist drew blood from my arm and injected it into my back so that it would coagulate over and stop the leak. Then came problem two when my healthy little girl was denied discharge from the hospital due to severe jaundice. Following this was my getting an infection ( product of the C section ) once I got home.After all of this Mike wanted to take me somewhere that I had never been ( that we could afford ) and we both loved Amusement parks so Kings Island it was ( so sorry for the pregnancy memories, they just poured out ). Since I don't remember much and the kids have never been there this trip should be fun.


Though Cedar Point opened a few weeks ago .With Mike working six days a week and our hectic lives we finally got there and bought our season passes yesterday. We almost went without Michael as he has now been in his cast five weeks and is starting to get sick of not being able to walk or do much of anything else. Michael had arranged to stay with Nanny and Pops since he figured that he wouldn't be able to ride anything and would have a terrible time . I however vetoed this arrangement as he needed to get his picture taken for his pass to be processed and I didn't want to have to wait in the long lines again when he was able to go. It all turned out well though. It seems that Cedar Point allows casts on many rides as long as they fit and since Michael is, for lack of a better word, petite he fit in most. I am sure that his doctor would cringe if he knew what all Michael rode with those pins sticking out of his foot and only protected by a thin fiberglass cast, but sometimes you just have to let a kid be a kid .


Now that our signs of Summer are here we are fed up with school and ready to be done. Too bad that due to a late start date they have to go into June. Oh well those few weeks will fly... After all, that is what time does !