Bubbleland, PA

Grammy's backyard has officially been renamed Bubbleland, PA. Reggie and have taken to grabbing K as soon as she gets off the school bus and hauling her behind the house for the "Bubbland Spectacular." Now that K has taught the dog how to use the kiddie slide, we needed something new to entertain ourselves. Basically the Bubbleland Spectacular involves K using all of the bubble paraphernalia I dug out of the storage until last week . . . at the same time.

In other news, today K and Grammy drove the tractor while Pop Pop sprayed the fruit trees. I'm pretty sure if you're 7, life doesn't get any better than this.

Country Living

I need to start following Julie's example and travel around with my camera strapped to my chest . . . okay, maybe not my chest, but somewhere handy. Yesterday morning as I was doing the Double Check Everything Before We Go Wait for the School Bus check, something caught my eye out the window. Realizing what I was seeing, I ran into the living room and hauled K to the side door where we looked through the storm door at eight or nine deer . . . right in the yard . . . heading across the road and up and mountain. It was beautiful and K was amazed. I'm so glad that we are living in a place where she can really enjoy nature . . . from behind a glass door of course.

I learned two other valuable lessons: the library opens late on Fridays ands even though they are closed you can still pick up their wireless signal from the parking lot. Thanks to that modern technological advance I was able to complete the pre-interview paperwork for my meeting on Monday and get the information I needed to file my taxes. I came back after my tax appointment and finished up the a few other online job applications. I should have listed "resourceful" under special talents.

Once K got home from school, we headed to church with Grammy and Pop Pop for the Friday night fish fry. Pop Pop had a big pot of meatballs on the stove, but once he remembered we don't eat meat on Fridays during Lent, he got on board. We ran into an old high school and college friend who was visiting from out of town and K got to meet my friend's mom, who also happens to be her new CCD teacher when she picks her religious education classes back up this Sunday. Of course K had already interviewed her bus driver and found out he was going to be there cooking so she raided the candy stash and took him a goodie bag. Apparently I am raising an incredibly thoughtful child.

Even though Friday night is Movie Night and we had Night at the Museum II waiting at the house, we took a detour after dinner over to her school where they were hosting a science fair. K loved seeing some of her friends and I ran into a few of mine, too. God , I love small towns.

K digging for fossils at the Science Fair.

Today we helped Grammy make peanut butter Easter eggs at her church and took the dog for a nice long walk at Riverlands. Pop Pop is still adjusting to working nights during the outage, so we try to keep the house quiet for him during the day.

All in all, life is pretty good. We're headed out the door to visit friends for dinner, I have an interview Monday with an employment agency and the census job should start later this month. We're getting there . . .

Snow Days!

Our second attempt at building a snowman was far more successful than our first. The snow that led to our four day weekend melted just enough to make it slightly slushy and roll like butter!

In other news, K has finally found someone who likes to dance as much as she does.