Today included:
• breakfast at a table that also held a daffodil in a glass baby food jar
• short sleeves, no jackets
• muddy knees (for everyone)
• open windows next to diaper pails
• the dreary work of clearing out last summer’s sad leaves from budding beds
• a long-awaited inaugural ride on the shiny, new, pink (why of course) tricycle (a Christmas present)
• chalk on the sidewalk, play set, outdoor chairs, tree trunks and (regrettably) the boys
• the sweet surprise of perennials planted by our home’s previous owners popping up
• a later-than-usual bedtime because of time that got away from us while (finally, finally) outside
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” —Rainer Maria Rilke
