Here is a random quote for the week
"Mom, I need to find the Sleeping Beauty doll so we can play the Moses game!"
(????)
Maybe we need to review our Bible stories and fairy tales.

Something Like a Magnetic Field

There's something about babies and the toilet paper roll in the bathroom. I'm guessing it's some sort of magnetic field that pulls them in whenever they are crawling by the open door. Every little person I have known (mostly those living in my house) have loved this activity. This particular baby especially likes to tear the paper into small pieces and throw them around the room while laughing with delight. Talk about cheap entertainment.

One is Fun

Something Satisfying

A garden can be discouraging or very satisfying. Our garden is becoming more satisfying this week as it now looks like a garden instead of a weed patch. And..... the things we planted this spring are GROWING! Like things are supposed to do in a garden. It really does help if you water and weed and that sort of thing. I'm looking forward to the satisfying taste of the end result. Thanks Mom for the million weeds you helped pull.

Happy Thirty-something!

Pictures From a Picturesque Place

We had a fun trip last week- hiking, climbing, playing staying out of the downpours in creative covers, drying out, eating and having a good time being together. I did consider packing up and leaving exactly two times. The first being the time my husband got a two inch sliver in his thumb from one of our tent polls then promptly fainted after pulling it out. The second being the time I was standing under our screened-in tent porch during a thunderstorm waiting for everyone to come back, my little boy to go to sleep in the tent and for the torrential rain and wind to stop getting me wet. The screened-in tent porch was pittance compared to the storm. But the sun came out, and everything seemed better. The amazing landscape we saw is just that, amazing. Pictures don't do it justice.You have to be there to understand its amazingness.

Thanks everyone for making our adventure a lot of fun.

I think spring may have decided to come, maybe. Or possibly the weather may decide to skip straight to summer, none of this pleasant seventy-degree-and-no-rain weather for a few days. Although I do like not having to worry about watering the vegetation in our yard.
Last weekend was very nice weather. Especially for a triathalon. Some of us had a fun time watching and others of us had fun time racing (there were moments of questioning their sanity during the race but afterward said it was worth it.) It takes a lot of preparation to race in a triathalon. Good work to the racers. I will have pictures later. Thank you to those who remembered to bring their cameras all the way to the race and not bring it close to the race and leave it in your parked car half a mile away.