It’s cold tonight. This should feel normal—it’s March—but it’s not normal. Not this year. Sophie’s birthday is Friday. In my very first blog post, here, I wrote about spring. It arrived while I gave birth to Sophie. But this year, it came early. It’s a gift I’ve gladly welcomed. I like winter. I like seasons. [...]
Warm(er) weather, bottles outside, sidewalk chalk, tutus and galoshes, a smile and a smile and a smile. (Thinking of all this on this cold, spring morning.) “In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.” —Mark Twain
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 [...]
