spring!

The weather has changed. Suddenly. And I havent written much this week because I am outside, with the kids, drinking in the sun and the birds and the blue sky and the warm. And it is warm. Basically our winter was March and our March is now June. An unbelievable delirious 79 degrees today. 79 DEGREES.

Insane.

And my week in the sun teaching what I went to school to teach is going to work out after all. So I am scrambling trying to remember how to use my brain, writing handouts and figuring out a syllabus. Trying, trying, trying.

I can do it.

Except for the sun. And the breeze. And, oh, I am delirious with spring!

a few weeks ago. bundled up when it was still winter.

we love swings!

birdwatching a few days ago.

our pretty bog

the last of the snow

sleeping baby

a little log, just right for the first picnic of the season

 
Here is where I forced the kids to listen to a sweet story about the robin and how he got his red breast, a la Waldorf-y stories. They liked it. Also, this little poem.

The wind
told the grasses,
And the grasses
told the trees.
The trees
told the bushes,
And the bushes
told the bees.
The bees
told the robin,
And the robin
sang out clear:
Wake up!
Wake up!
Spring is here!

hiking

baby cousin

ditching the sweatshirts.

the river