Thanks!!

Thank you, Mom & Dad!
I love you to pieces!
XOXO

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The "Cow Way"

We live in rural America.
Our location allows us to have multiple routes
by which we can travel on our way home.

The girls have a favorite route they refer to as
the "Cow Way".
There is one particular intersection where I almost always hear,
"Can we go the "cow way", pleeeeeease!"
Today, I acquiesced to their request (name that movie!)
and they were rewarded!

This is why it's called the "Cow Way".

There are often cows in a beautiful, picturesque pasture (as opposed to the usual flat, drab lot) on this route.

And today the cows were joined by calves.
Isn't Spring wonderful?

Ok! Ok! It can be a little itchy too!
But it's still far more desirable than winter in my book.

"Wha' choo lookin' at, Willis?"

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Spring Sign

My mom's crocuses have started peeking out from
their blanket of fallen leaves.

I LOVE Spring!

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Spring Climbing

Some do Spring cleaning.
These two do Spring climbing!

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Fresh Air!!

Gorgeous day!
Spring temperatures are moving in
and I LOVE fresh air!

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Sand Plum Scent

I wish you could scratch & sniff these!

The smell is heavenly!
Its scent holds just the right amount of sweetness
without being over powering.
And there's the slightest hind of ...hmmm...
the scent of sand... beach... earthy-ness?

Sadly, their bloom is short-lived
so you must spend as much time as possible
with your nose in the bush
while it's in bloom.

Just watch out for the bees!

Our little star falls

Beautiful Monday here... ends in the ER. LOL

A sign of spring maybe! Kiddos with skinned knees, bumps & bruises!

Our little star was hanging upside down from the recliner... "trying to grab a blanket"... when she tried to pull herself back up, she instead went tumbling down. A battle ensued with the piano and the piano won!

So as mommy is holding her sobbing star, she is dutifully trying to locate the bump that MUST be there. What mommy wasn't looking for was blood, but she found it. So daddy sent us off to the ER as it was difficult to ascertain the depth of the short, bleeding gash.

Thank goodness for Gram & GDude! Our little star's emotions went out of the galaxy when she heard mommy was taking her to see a dr. But the stars re-aligned themselves when she heard that Gram & GDude would meet her there. Mommy's heart gave a HUGE sigh of relief.


All said, Little Star didn't need stitches. Instead, the genius Dr took a little hair from one side of the wound and a little hair from the other side of the wound and tied the hair in a knot over the wound. Genius! And lest you think we got an ER quack... we know this particular doctor. He is the surgeon our other little cherub was a patient of years ago. That little cherub is sporting skinned knees tonight! (Completely separate incident- Mommy seemed tied to the nurse's hat today)

And yet... there exists no whine in me tonight! The sun was shining and it was WARM!!!

And now sleep beckons... tomorrow is a new day!

Memories of Sunday

Apparently no one got to the door quick enough to let Spring in. Therefore, Winter has decided to extend his stay.

At this very moment, my children are immersed in their math books and I'm listening to sleet pelting my windows. It's downright depressing. After bringing in wet and shivering horses last night, they are even staying in the barn today. UGH!

Can we just close our eyes and go back to Sunday? Sunday was beautiful! Sunday was warm. Sunday was sunny!



Jackson enjoyed Sunday!



Ben enjoyed Sunday!



Milton thought Sunday was Funday!

Ok... so it was muddy! But it was still sunny!

Boy! I feel whiny!
;)

Hope!

Could it be that Spring is on our doorstep?



Someone please get the door! I'm tangled in my blanket and thermal underwear!
Please! Quick! Let her in!