Happy Spring. It has been one heck of a Winter and Spring didn't come a moment too soon. It's still occasionally snowing and the windy season hasn't slowed down yet, but every day I feel a little bit less like chucking everything and becoming a homeless person on a beach in Mexico. So that's progress.
My Asiatic lilies are just starting to poke up. They may yet freeze solid and have to start again, but at least they've made a showing.
Another sure sign of spring: the chicks are at Murdoch's.
Sometimes I feel like a bit of a poser, going in to gawk at chicks when there are people who actually buy them and use them for egg laying/eating. Or, as my elderly Jordanian coworker tells me in his heavily accented English, that he used to buy chicks for his children and they would run around the yard bringing smiles to the children's faces, but every year, the #$%@ dog would kill them (the chicks, not the children).
Perhaps it's fine to just look.
I also let the kids talk me into something that seldom goes down in our house: sugar cookie decorating. Spring cookies are better than Christmas cookies anyway.
Yeah, that's an embarrassing amount of sprinkles.
In other news, Jane has started gymnastics. Her school loads up the kiddos on Fridays and drives them to a gymnastics studio (or gym? or arena? or colosseum? I'm not sure) and they learn how to balance and jump. She loves it. Mainly because she gets to wear a leotard. It's all about the costume.
A sidenote: Jane is doing really, really well at her new school. I love it so much I want to quit my job and get Montessori certified. Or maybe not. Kids are hard.
Speaking of being about costumes, the girls have started watching at least some Frozen on an almost daily basis. Got 15 minutes? It's Frozen time!
They have to act out all the parts and they watch it in as much costume as they can muster. Has anyone tried to buy an actual Frozen costume lately? Yeah, it's insane. Not that I would buy them yet, because the girls are going to be Anna and Elsa for the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique this summer. Let's hope they get the dresses in stock by then. In the meantime, every time they get the DVD player rolling, Emily pleads for two braids and Jane for one. Because Emily is Anna and Jane is Elsa, on account of her slightly more golden locks.
We won't buy costumes, but, we did pay nearly triple retail price for a Frozen piece of merchandise lately. But let's not ruin the surprise. It's for Easter... coming soon.
