We started this month in Tennessee experiencing what felt like an early spring since it was cold and terrible at home while we were away. Then we got home and spring eventually showed up here too! April was that trip, Easter, and embracing warmer weather which is wonderful but always brings with it a slew of projects as well.
Looking back:
1 year ago: {18} Dragon Picture Books (I miss doing these lists, one of the many causalities of starting homeschooling...)
2 years ago: Some Royally Good Reads
3 years ago: Travel: 40 Hours in Saint Louis
4 years ago: Book Love: Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson
5 years ago: Painting the FINAL Kitchen Cupboard (my pandemic Good Friday)
6 years ago: Cloth Diapering, Again
7 years ago: A Star Wars/Lego/Superhero Party
8 years ago: Pairing Activities
9 years ago: Dilemma: My Craft Area (the solution we came up with for this is pretty much how it still is today)
10 years ago: Getting My Sew On
11 years ago: Things I Like - April (sharing this because I wore #1 this week and am using #3 regularly right now!)
12 years ago: NYC
13 years ago: Frustrating but then Uplifting
2) Souvenir shopping in Tennessee and they were using depression glass for display that was the exact same style of some of what we just received from my aunt's house/formerly my Grandma's set. It was a fun find out in the "wild". (We have similar bowls but not that exact size.)
3) The sunset view from our Pigeon Forge cabin, beautiful.
4) This is 2/2 on bad/no views from the top of Clingman's Dome for Matt. It was comically bad this time.
5) Part of the Appalachian Trail and about as most of it as I ever plan to hike (and that was about 20 feet).
6) View from a cabin in Cades Cove. I wouldn't want to live primitively like that but dang, some nice views.
7) Stopped at Buc-ees coming home where we spent 45 minutes at what is really a gas station. Fridays in Lent aren't the best time to try to get food on the road.
8) Hyacinth in our backyard, these are usually early to bloom and smell amazing.
9) Continuing my posting of reading in different places, at the ortho office, again (we are there what feels like a lot).
10) SPRING! On the walk home form school.
11) I forgot I planted tulips last fall until they bloomed this year! Not counting on them lasting long before squirrels dig them up like they did my previous ones.
12) Dying eggs at home! The boys actually spent almost 2 hours on this!
13) Easter bike ride downtown where, with late Easter, tulips were out!
14) Easter bike ride and our first bike ride of the year!
15) This is not our backyard but I forget where I came across whatever this flowering thing is. I love and appreciate all the green we have right now but I really do love those ~2 weeks where everything is flowering and amazing.
16) Red buds being amazing. Planting this was such a good random decision.
Books finished: 14!
Miles ran: 16.60, better than last April!
Currently watching: Matt & I have started rewatching Brooklyn 99 (starting with season 3 which is where Netflix starts) because it's funny and we liked it the first time. On my own I've started watching Nobody Wants This, about 1 episode a week while I fold laundry on Sunday night. So it's going to take me a little time.
Most read post this month: March Reading Recap followed by Kool-Aid Cookies (my 6th most popular post of all blog time)
May is Mothers Day, our anniversary, and THE END OF SCHOOL which is nearly all consuming. Even with NO sports right now (don't miss it) and only one kid in "regular" school (but one whom I am room parent for his class), it's probably less chaotic than it could be but still with some level of crazy. May just has a different energy, wrapping up a school year and all the anticipation of summer. It actually feels like a little bit of a sweet spot right now because I LOVE that summer anticipation but we also don't have to feel like we've wasted any of it yet. Plus it's the point of the school year where NOBODY CARES anymore, learning is barely happening and it's kinda just soaking up all the hard work we've put in over the last 170 school days (to be clear, my homeschool kid is still doing assignments). Just trying to enjoy the good parts of May and not let the harder parts weigh me down!
