Just because I have stopped being a traveling OT doesn’t mean my adventures have stopped! In February I took a job working with Cook Children’s Home Health in Fort Worth, TX and I am loving it! Yes, there are stressful days and a ton to learn starting out, but I love working with kids again. Today I went out finding any garage sale I could to find more toys, games and books that I can use with my little kiddos!

In the middle of March, I learned something new about Texas. When the weather man says it is going to hail, you take it seriously and take cover as best as you can. Hail in Texas is not small like you may have every once in a while in New York. No, hail here is ginormous! And unfortunately can do quite a bit of damage. (I may take back every bad thing I have said about snow storms in NY because I would take one of those any day over a big storm in TX!) As I was driving to work on the highway on March 17th, all of a sudden I started hearing very loud thumps on the top of my car. A couple seconds later, it looked like it was snowing huge snow balls however these were not soft snow balls. These were large, very hard pieces of hail. Hail that ended up breaking through my rear window, cracking the windshield, and doing enough more damage to the car that the insurance company called it a total loss. As much as buying a new vehicle was not something I had intended on doing in the near future, I sadly said goodbye to my little white Sentra and welcomed in my new 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport.

Last weekend I decided to do something fun and crazy and participated in the Fort Worth Zoo 5K run. Afterwards I decided that if I do something like that again, I should probably run a little bit more than once every 6 months or so when I decide to do a race. But it was fun while I did it. The last portion of the race was running through the zoo past the birds, Elephants, Zebras, Giraffes…It was fun! And I just signed up to do the Bubble Run in Dallas in May with a friend which I am excited about! One of my friends endured the cold morning and came out to the race with me.  I think by the time I was done running we could finally feel our fingers and toes…maybe. It was quite a cold morning!

 

The gardens here in TX are beautiful right now! After the race I went to the Fort Worth Botanical Garden and the next day I went to the Dallas Arboretum. Here are some pics from the gardens:

I have also been doing some hiking and exploring different trails around.

I am ready for more new and exciting adventures!