This is the Title of an Uncreative Violinist.:)

Last Friday, Ryan, Maddie and I went up to my parents' to celebrate my grandmother's 100th birthday on February 17th. We were well aware that her health was failing but little did we know how extremely fortunate our timed visit really was, for the next evening, as soon as we blew out the candles on her cake and sang her Happy Birthday and got on the road back to Columbus, she passed away. I got the call from my mom, who was sobbing, an hour after we arrived home just as I was about to fall asleep. Yes, she lived a long, full life...But we still mourn her absence. She was such a fixture in our family; I don't mean extended family, OUR family--my parents, younger brother and myself. She lived with us practically my whole life. She was there for all my recitals and concerts, graduations, my wedding; she held Madeline, her first and only great-grandaughter. I am back in Canton for the wake later today. I came back with Maddie on Tuesday to help my dad with decisions on flower...

As is typical of living in the Midwest, the weather around here has been unpredictable.  A few days ago I was able to go out without a jacket; two days later it's snowing and I have to break out the heavy winter jacket again. :/ I've been having problems with my skin for almost a year now.  At first, I attributed it to postpartum hormones (why not? that seems to be the case with almost everything else that's wreaking havoc on my body!) but also experimented with diet changes to see if maybe I had developed a new allergy.  I stopped dairy, coffee, soda and exercised more.  Welll, of course doing most of those things would be good for anyone, so it was hard to say if that's the reason my skin made improvements or not.  And then I wondered if the weather had anything to do with it.  Sigh, well, recently it had gotten even worse, so I started drinking twice as much water and cut out caffeine altogether.  After 3 or 4 days of that, my skin started clearing...