For this entire school year I have been enjoying the enormous hug pile that awaits me at the end of each Thursday morning preschool music class. After we sing the “Good-bye Song” an enormous group of small people smother me with hugs all at once.
My friend Rhonda sent me some fancy paper and pencils for a gift a few months ago, and I have been loving writing all sorts of little notes– excuses for absences from school, lists of important dates for my husband, notes for teachers– on lovely colorful paper. The fancy pencils have been lovely at the piano and music stand. Corrections and notes in printed music are always so much more pleasant with a fancy pencil.
I have been loving naps. Naps are wonderful.
I went for a walk down a neighborhood street a few weeks ago and encountered the longest hopscotch game I’ve ever seen drawn on the sidewalk with chalk. It went on and on, house after house, and it totally made me grin.
For a number of reasons, when I did my spring flower planting this year, I needed to keep my hands free of glopping in the mucky soil and compost. I am not normally a garden glove wearer. I’ve never found a pair of garden gloves that have worked for me, but at one of the greenhouses I visited with the Kidlets, I saw a pair of gardening gloves, and since I knew I needed a pair, I spontaneously purchased them so I could get right to work when I got home. Let me tell you, they are the most amazing gardening gloves I have ever encountered. I am a huge fan. I’m so tickled with the fact that I barely even notice I’m wearing them. They aren’t hot, bulky, or sticky. It felt like I was right in the dirt, but I never ended up touching any dirt. I highly recommend!
I’ve been loving the blooming forsythia bushes, rhododendron, crab apple trees, and plum blossoms in my yard. The lilacs are starting to bloom too.
The extra hours of daylight make me so happy this time of year.
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