Spring Days

We're going on a week of 70-80 degree weather. I didn't have anything to wear in the closet (it was all long sleeved shirts and wool pants), so I decided to make the seasonal clothing switch. This usually takes a couple of hours, some sorting in the cedar closet (I love that we have that room!) and multiple trips up and down the stairs. It's done (at least, my closet is, and the downstairs coat rack). The down, the wool, the boots--gone! Welcome skirts, tees and flip-flops!

If we do get a frost again (and everyone I've talked to agrees it's quite possible), I am simply going to stay inside, with the heat up to 75, until May.

In the process of sorting and organizing downstairs, Grace came across her little pair of white sandals from last year. "Dis is Sea Sand Me? For Nana-Papa?" she asked. (Mom and Dad--she still quotes that book all the time. I tell her "It's lunchtime, Grace" and she sings out "Cookies, lemonade! Shade, shade, shade.") She asked why I was sorting the clothes and when I told her that winter was over and spring was here, she immediately said, "I want cherries!"

Here is a photo of Grace in her new sandals (she wore these inside all day because she thought they were so pretty) and a dress Nana made that still fits from last year.




Here she is dancing with the "Flat Stanley" flag, wearing the second dress we found that fits from last year. (She bathed her baby in the sink this afternoon while I nursed Donnie. When I came to check on her, I saw that she used about half a bottle of shampoo, which meant that Dolly got a quite a nice bubble bath, and so did Grace, hence the costume change.)


Yesterday we had Rita's ice cream (it's free on the first day of spring). Tonight we grilled hamburgers and ate on the porch. I love this season.

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