This Weekend

This weekend is full of bustle.  After a week of snow covering the ground (it's May for pity's sake!!), the lawn and trees are becoming lush and green.  My wee little plants lived through it, in fact seemed to have thrived.  We will plant 75 strawberries.  We will bake a cake with Mom's artistic rendition of a Star Wars character.  Mom will get her hair cut.  We will have a weiner roast.  And grandparents will visit and spoil all children but in a special way, the Giraffe.  Happy pre-birthday weekend.

The Fields Are Calling

Spring is here.  Well, at least according to the calendar.  We woke up to snow this morning, just a skiff, but snow it was.  One sign of spring is that soccer has started.  We have two boys playing this year.  And they are from opposite ends of the athletic spectrum.  One who sobs if soccer is cancelled and another who shrugs and rejoices in being able to sit in the house a bit longer.  At the end of the month we'll add swimming to the mix and see how that turns out.