Despite wet ground and a rainy forecast all systems were go for the Cub Scout rocket launch this morning.  And, I gotta come clean on this one… it was WAY cooler than I thought it would be. They built the rockets at home and then went to the field to stuff them and other technical stuff which I didn’t really follow all to closely. Then they set the rockets up on their “launch pads”

Since it was the first day of spring this week, I decided it might be time to take down the Valentine’s wreath from my door and switch it for my Easter one. Today I thought I’d take it a step further and even pull out my spring/Easter/”leave up till I pull out the red/white/blue decorations for summer around Memorial day” decorations…as I did the girls were ooing and aahing over the little eggs, flowers, chicks and lambs…Then my 6 year old daughter saw the bunny my mother in law had given me a few years ago and said, _“Awh look at the bunny and it’s even holding a football.

Our tutorial had its Science/History night on Monday. As with any special event, it’s taken a few days to come up for air following all the pre event preparations…. As I watched tired mother’s dragging ginormous projects into the gym on Monday morning, I realized this is one of the major reasons we’re at our tutorial. Science/History night gives them an opportunity to get up in front of a group of people and perform something.

While he wore the jersey for 14 years, she proudly wore hers for 3. (more than half of her life). It was her first jersey and I always thought it suited her personality well.  As we listened live to Hines bid his tearful goodbye to football this afternoon, we were sad to see him go but as my 7 year old pointed out, “thankful he’s not going to play for the Ravens.

When you start the day with a bowl of our traditional St Patty’s day breakfast of Lucky Charms, you know it’s going to be a good day. And today was just that. I was so excited to have St Patrick’s Day fall on a Saturday this year. After our magically delicious breakfast, Scott took the big 3 to my son’s baseball practice. I stayed home to make our lunch (shamrock shaped soft pretzels) while our youngest took a morning cat nap.

I had high hopes for Feb with plans in the works for Mardi Gras and Leap Year celebrations, but the stomach bug and a business trip and well the busyness of life, put those on the back burner… perhaps another next time… March is full of celebrations of its own, so no time to mourn the missed holidays of February… We started off with Dr Seuss’ Birthday on March 2. We had green eggs and

I baby him. A lot. I know I never, ever babied any of my others like I do him. It’s mostly because I know he’s my last, but also because he lets me. He weighs 27 lbs and will be 2 in three months, and yet most days you’ll find me carrying him on my hip. I joked the other day that you’ll probably find me carrying him in to kindergarten.

So, last March I ran a half marathon with my father in law. I trained for it and was proud of myself for actually preparing for that one. Then, as often happens after a race, I was on this “Race is Over” high or something like that and so I had nothing to push me to run. And so I put it off. And tomorrow, became next week, next week, became next month….

My youngest often wakes up early in the morning… you know that tricky hour of the day when it isn’t yet time for anyone to be awake but yet close enough to morning that if you let him cry it out a bit they’ll probably wake up and it’s way earlier than you want more than one child up seeing as it’s earlier than you even want to be up. You know that time of the night/morning?

While we didn’t plan it like this at first, Sunday ended up being date day for each of our 4 kids. Each child ended up with some one on one time with either mom, dad, or Aunt Karen. Good times had by all! One of the duties of our church deacons is to unlock the church on Sunday mornings. When Scott became a deacon 3 years ago, he started taking one child with him on his deacon duty mornings.