I got a pedicure on Saturday. I sorted out the kids’ summer clothes and found out what still fits and what can go to some lucky slightly smaller people. I swapped the winter duvets on all our beds for the summer ones.
So of course, temperatures are going to drop into the 20s tonight. (That’s below freezing.) I would bring back the duvets, but B enthusiastically put them into vacuum bags and sucked all the air out and was delighted with himself, so I think it’ll be extra blankets all round.
You would think I would know by now, not to go casting clouts until April, at least, is out. But no, I am a rash and impetuous creature, governed by whims and flights of fancy and susceptible to the warm spring breezes. Aren’t we all, after that long, long winter? I should just be happy that all we got today was a lot of rain, not like the s-n-o-w they had further north.
Baseball-ready, 2014
Baseball season has started again, so Dash is happy. He ran the nursery school’s fundraiser 1k fun run on Saturday and won it for the second year in a row. Next year he’s going to have to just run the 5k and leave the 1 for the younger children or it’ll start to look like he’s hogging it.
Rounding the last bend, well ahead of the competition
It’s spring break and so far we’ve had a playdate, done the grocery shopping, and gone to the thrift store, where they had the amazing find of a green lightsaber. “I’ve missed having a green lightsaber,” said Dash, for whom two blue ones and a red double-blade are not enough, apparently.
His birthday is coming up – AGAIN – and he wants a Star Wars party – AGAIN – for he is a creature of habit. And I’m trying to think how we can disguise a Star Wars party as something subtly different so his friends don’t all die of boredom and think they’re stuck in a time warp. So I’ll be in the corner with my notebook chewing the end of my pen and writing lists, which is how I think best, for a while.
As always, you can find me waxing hilarious (be charitable) and/or sensible over on Parent.ie if you’re missing the more regular updates here.
There is little to no chance that a group of children will be bored at a party where they get to whack things with sticks and then eat cake, even if they did it last year.
What if we’re too jaded to make foam noodle lightsabers yet again, though? I need to come up with something else. I’m hoping the weather is good and we can just arm them with water pistols and let them loose.
I grew up with the rule that you don’t put the plants outside or the winter stuff away until Mother’s Day, because it still might freeze anytime until then. You’re in roughly the same planting zone that I grew up in, maybe one warmer. I’d guess May 1 is the latest freeze, as a general year-to-year guideline.
That makes sense. It’s just that every year we have a burst of “early summer” and it fools me again.
A light sabre for every party guest! We have one of those duvets that has two layers and I just took one layer off yesterday, I hope we’ve both done the right thing!
I put winter jumpers (sweaters!) away on Friday as it was beautifully sunny over here, so of course, Saturday was grey and windy and cold. But I held fast – no going back. I believe over here now we don’t cast any clouts until May, so I’m clearly flouting that…