* Brushing Charlotte's soft hair before we left for a walk, and after I put a clip in her hair to hold back her bangs, she said, "Thank you!" in her sweet, chipper little voice.
* Charlotte wrapped her hand around my finger, and then I hold her little hand in mine.  She never lets go, not even to pull her unzipped sweater back up on her shoulders.
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Spring will come, eventually.  I keep telling myself this when I look outside and see fresh snow on my van.  This morning I looked back in my April 2009 pictures to look longingly at the dead grass and slushy puddles in the Easter pictures ( Read more... )

I'm never surprised when it snows in April.  Annoyed, yes, but never surprised.

The howling wind woke me at 3 a.m. and when I got up to go to work this morning, my van was covered in snow and surrounded in snow drifts.  The winds were crazy, 70-100 km per hour!  That kind of wind blowing around the snow made for a bit of a tense drive to work.  The ( Read more... )

It's warm and sunny, and just a bit of a cool breeze.  I put Charlotte in the stroller this morning and walked to the other elementary school in town to see Julia and her class perform in the community music festival.  Almost every kid in town who is in school, or who does music or voice lessons, performs in this festival every Spring.  ( Read more... )

On Sunday I found this robin's egg on the sidewalk beside Jack's huge truck.  Except for the small hole on one side it was totally intact.  No baby chick inside, just runny yolk and slime - ew.


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