4/29/2009

Interview

Our children’s minister gave us these questions to interview our kids with. I had the girls do this while Alex was working on his schoolwork.
What is your favorite food:
L: rice
A: pizza
What is your mom’s favorite food:
L: lasagna
A: chocolate
How old is your mom:
L: 30
A: 30
Who is your mom’s best friend:
L: Miss Becky (Levison)
A: Cathy Alexander
What does your mom do all day:
L: laundry
A: garden
(both good answers!)
What is your favorite tv show:
L: Cinderella
A: Word Girl
What is 1 thing you love to do with your mom:
L: watch movie
A: sew
What does your mom do after putting you to bed:
L: read a grown up book
A: watch tv
Alex's answers to come later...

4/26/2009

Right now…

It’s been an exciting few days since our last post. We are thrilled that the weather is finally warm enough that we can be outside every day. It has become a daily ritual to run around the house and count how many daffodils are blooming. In a perfect world I’d have some sort of growth chart where we could plot how many of each color bloom we have and all sorts of critical information. But I don’t. This week my neighbor gave me a Rose of Sharon tree and about 30 iris rhizomes, so I spent all of my outside time getting those established. Plus my peas have sprouted. I was starting to loose hope that I’d get any peas this year, but they’ve finally found their way to the surface.
Annie is having some Grandma time this weekend. She went down to West Virginia with my mom on Friday, and will be home sometime today. It will be good to have her home again here in a few hours.
School is going well. We are down to 12 days remaining. We are so ready for summer vacation.

4/14/2009

Currently…




It’s a icky rainy day here in our neighborhood. We are thinking of ways to entertain ourselves inside while we wait for the sun to come back out. I uploaded a few pics that I thought you might like to see. I was playing with this funky camera lens my dad got us a while back. So we have a daffodil bloom (one of many) and Miss Louisa hard at work on her “school”.
Speaking of school. We’re anxiously counting down the days. 20 remain. We ended up not taking a spring break this year. We are planning a family vacation to Maine this year and thought it would be slightly more enjoyable in late May than in early April. So we’ll go when we are all finished.
We had a fun mini vacation over the weekend. We took ourselves to Ann Arbor for lunch and a trip to the mall. We found this great little dollar movie theater, and watched Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler. We were slightly nervous because we didn’t know much about the plot line, but we figured for $1 a ticket even if it was horrible we got our money’s worth. We ended up really enjoying it.
Easter was sort of a low-key event in this house. I didn’t feel like going through the works, so we took ourselves out to lunch and played in the yard all day. No bunnies, no eggs, no fancy dinner. The kids didn’t seem to mind all that much. They got ice cream instead of candy.

4/04/2009

Updates

Spring is slowly eeking it’s way into our corner of the world. The weather is slowly but surely getting warmer and we are enjoying more and more time out in the sun.
We’ve been working on our garden this week. Our veggie garden is still under construction. I’m hoping to get it closer to done before a system of icky weather hits us next week. We’ll see. Our daffodils are starting to bloom. It’s early enough in the season that we are still doing a little dance every time we find a new bud or blossom. I image when we get to bloom # 976 we won’t be quite as excited. I recently took a tour of the area where the bulbs were dug from and discovered I wasn’t nearly as thorough as I thought I’d been. There are probably 500 bulbs that are still waiting to be moved to a safer location. Know anyone who wants some daffodils?
School is going well. The end of the year is quickly approaching. 27 days and counting. If we don’t take a family vacation this spring I’m estimating that we will finish around May 15th. As the weather is warming up and the garden is beckoning, that cut off day is looking sweeter and sweeter. Glad that we kept our noses to the grindstone all winter, so we could play in the spring. I don’t know whether to be amused or annoyed that all of our friends will still have another month of school after we are finished.
So Ms. Patty survived her encounter with our children. They apparently had a lovely time playing, reading and singing songs. A good time was had by all.
Oh, and our lovely cardinal friend from last year is back. Picking a fight with our sliding door again. I have pictures of him this year, but really I’m too lazy to get my camera and upload them. Earlier this week he was threatened not only by our door, but by my bedroom window as well. He made his displeasure with my window known early one morning this week, and I managed to confuse him by covering the inside of my window with wrapping paper. I’m still trying to decide if it’s worth the effort to cover the sliding door with paper or not.

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