School is finished, lunch is eaten, instruments practiced….and now it is time for playing in the dirt. Wendy is zipping through The Littles books again (it’s been a few years since her last obsession with them). Now all three kids are out in the dirt pile (where the sand box WILL be but right now it’s just exposed dirt) building “Snippet Homes” in the ground. You don’t know the Snippets? Why, they are ground tinies, of course….they live in a rabbit hole under the roots of a maple tree. And the hope is, I think, that they’ll move in to our own backyard.
My mom sent me flowers yesterday. It was such a nice suprise….in honor of Spring coming and that our life has been so crazy these last few months. Fresh tulips arriving at dinnertime is lovely. They will arrive in the neighborhood soon (and maybe in our own yard….this first Spring in our new house will be fun as we’ll get to witness the unveiling, little by little, of “our” flowers and trees that we don’t know a lot about yet). So far, it’s just crocuses. And I LOVE crocuses because they bring it all in.
This morning was one of the first that we could take an early morning walk. And they are so necessary! We are having major Spring Fever this week and a good ol’ before breakfast walk/bike/scooter/jog at least helps to relieve the crabbiness a bit. It’s weeks like these that I wonder to myself “why don’t I just send the kids to school?”.
