Spring Has Sprung

Well, after reading Julie's latest post, I realized that I skipped blogging for the entire month of April and decided it was past due time for an update.

It never even occured to me to place the lawnmower on the list of things that could possibly break because they're older than dirt, apparently I should have. With only half the front yard cut and the parts of the back up to my calves, the old girl finally gave out. I guess 5 years of knocking "gumballs" around the back yard with no TLC fnally caught up with her. Luckily when I was at Rick and Kristen's for Easter, Mr. Rick clued me in to a great repair shop where they fixed us up for the whopping high price of $35. Sometimes life is good.

K spent the entire Spring Break on the farm with her dad chasing horses and I got a well deserved break where I did NOT clean half the stuff I planned to while she was gone. It was delightful. The tick she brought back as a souvenier was not. Luckily a pair a tweezer and a quick flush down the toilet took care of that.

The weekend after spring break saw K travelling again as she headed to the midWest for a wedding with her dad. She is quite the seasoned traveller and even the 8 hours they were stuck in the Chicago airport on the way home didn't phase her. Her life continues to be far more exciting than mine.

I spent last Friday morning "observing" K's am kindergarten class to get some perspective on the problems she has been having in school. Of course she was a perfect angel and completed all of her work on time, so it didn't really serve the purpose, but it was fun to eat lunch with her in the courtyard and she was beyond thrilled to pick a friend to join us.

Soccer is going good and we are both making some new friends there. Work is the same old, same old, but with all the budget cuts floating around I'm delighted to have a steady job close to home and almost okay with the fact that we are not getting raises this year.

My social life still lags far behind my daughters, but I have been spending a lot of time with my good friends and neighbors, found a new babysitter, actually went to a movie that was not rated G, and have been reexploring some possibilites on other fronts. Things are definitely looking up.