Sweet Spring Moments

Spring is such a beautiful time of year.  It is hard to feel sorry or down.  Here are a few sweet moments that I've been enjoying lately and I don't want to forget.

• Our grass looks like a jungle.  Seriously.  We pulled out the mower and it wouldn't start.  I've been trying to convince Aaron to get a new one anyways since I can't start our current one and it is very heavy.  I'm the primary mower in the house because I love to have the peaceful time alone outside just walking around the yard and Aaron hates it (primarily due to his extreme grass allergies).  We're seriously considering getting something like this.  We just need to research and make sure that it actually works.  
  
• I love my sweet baby boy.  Mostly he is 100% pure boy but then sometimes he surprises me with sweet little moments.  This morning I went into his room to get him up and he was sitting in his bed snuggling with a baby doll.  Hopefully, he won't someday kill me for posting this.  And then at breakfast, he was singing one line of the Doxology over and over in his high-pitched little voice.  Aww shucks.  I'm glad to be his mom...most of the time. 
• Speaking of breakfast, this morning we had eggs with chunks of fried potatoes probably also known as a hash though I was completely out of other veggies to put in it.  We also had a few breakfast cookies (oats, bananas, coconut, etc) leftover.  The kids surprised me by asking for 3rds of their eggs and barely touching their cookies.  They are so egg crazy.  
• One thing that cracks me up about my  husband is when he buys  me flowers.  He hardly ever does but he always tries to make them a huge surprise.  He either has them delivered or he goes someone and hides them and arranges things with a manager so that I'll conveniently find them.   Remember that time he mortified me by hiding a giant bouquet in the manager's office at Hobby Lobby?  Well, this week he left work a few minutes and stopped by the restaurant we had decided to go on a date at and left a bunch of tulips on the table. The waitress tried to seat us in a different part of the building and Aaron had to redirect her.  I guess flowers are just too boring.  In addition to the flowers, he brought me some pecan caramel cookies from a local bakery that were pretty much to die for.  
• Kira is very much looking forward to Easter this year.  She has requested to have curls in her hair and I know she'll love everything about the day.  We'll probably have 100 photo opportunities and I'll end up only taking 2 of the whole day.  I guess you win some and you lose some. 

Spring

Wow.  So apparently I haven't written anything on this blog in nearly two months and my personal journal only looks a little better. I've started a dozen blog posts in my head but I've either never gotten around to writing them, decided they were stupid, or thought that I was probably more qualified to read blog posts on said topic instead of trying to write it myself.  I thought I'd pop in and do a little spring check in just so I can say I haven't completely abandoned this here blog.  Here a few things about this season of life that we've been doing.

One of the kids' favorite games right now is run away from the _____________.  Their favorite things to run away from are dragons and pretend lawn mowers.  As Will tells me, they are "scaredy."  The funny thing is that we have yet to mow our lawn this year and the kids haven't really seen one up close and working since last fall.

I wish I could share some cool DIY projects with you but I've barely done a single thing since Christmas.  I've pulled out my quilt and worked on it a tiny bit here and there but that is about it.  I also put together a quick spring wreath for the front door but it is nothing worth sharing on the blogosphere.

I just want to go on record as saying that one of the saddest things you'll ever see is a toddler limping.  Seriously.  You know that there is no way they are faking it and just about breaks your heart.  Will twisted his ankle the other day and is just finally getting over the limp.  It is like having tiny Tim follow you around in your house.

Since I haven't been writing or crafting, one thing I've had plenty of time to do is read.  I made a goal on goodreads to read 26 books this year (or one book every 2 weeks).  So far I think I've read 16.  Of course, 3 of those were Kira's bedtime chapter books but I think they count.  The only problem is that I've read a lot on my "to read" list and now I need new ones.  I have just a couple of more left to read but they are either already checked out from the library or I'm saving them until closer to my book club so they'll be fresher.  Do you have any suggestions?  Right now I want to read either good fiction or some Christian non fiction to encourage my soul and encourage me.

We are getting excited about herbs, flowers and Easter.  We've been trying to eat a few paleoish meals a week in order to cut back and increase our veggie intake.  Today was supposed to be one of those.  We're going to have balsamic shredded pork over sweet potatoes topped with slaw and a side of salad.  Well...then I found this lovely recipe for a loaf of artisan sourdough bread stuffed with olives, rosemary and garlic.   I think I could have held off except for the fact that I was asked to bring the bread for Easter and I wanted to test it first since I'm a real sourdough newb.  There goes are gluten-free dinner.  I suppose we'll just have to rejoice and be glad in it.

Last question and then I'm done.  Is it possible to convince a 20 month old boy to keep a fedora on his head for any length of time?  I saw the cutest straw fedora at Target for only $3 and I really want one for Will.  I'm just trying to decide if he'll leave it on for more than 30 seconds at a time.  Moms of boys, any tips?  I really need it in my life.  Especially since the blue band on it matches his blue eyes.