April Fool's Day

Our cherry tree hasn't begun to blossom yet.

Byran says we'll worry about whether or not it's alive or dead if it hasn't blossomed by July.

It's not like it's a Christmas Cactus that gets the seasons mixed up! My mom had a Christmas Cactus the bloomed faithfully every July. Dumb cactus.

We have been spring cleaning like maniacs, and no matter how much crap we throw out (or efficiently store out of sight and therefore out of mind)...I keep finding more stuff in corners, drawers and in the abyss that are my children's rooms (we just cleaned them out AGAIN a few weeks ago).

The bleakness of the past week with snowfall, freezing rain (for us) has begun to dissapate into what today are clear, blue skies complete with birds chirping and a peaceful calm that only early spring can bring.

Easter came and went rather peacefully, and Dylan enjoyed his very first Easter Egg hunt. Since he's so excited about taking stuff out of things, and putting things back into things (we're not sure what it all means, but we're certain that it means he's a genius of some measure!), an Easter Egg hunt was right up his alley.

Also, instead of opening the eggs and EATING the candy (which I didn't really want him to do anyway), he would open them, the jelly beans would shoot out and then he would very carefully take each candy and put it back into the egg and try to close it up. Eventually, I just removed all the candy from all the eggs in his sparse basket because he was more interested in taking the eggs apart and putting them back together than anything else.

And...our dryer just died. We'll be planning a memorial service with a bulk of the eulogy devoted to it's long, faithful service and the unbelievable amount of energy required for it to function which has been carefully documented by the increases in our power bills.