Faux Spring

Thursdays might be my favorite day of the week...I always start them in doing my big house cleaning of the week, and it feels so good to have a clean house. I always make a dessert and we watch a movie on the couch together (usually the only family movie we watch all week) Tonight it was James and the Giant Peach and chocolate cake.  I highly recommend the Sicilian Pasta that I made tonight for dinner from 101  cookbooks; http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/000146.html (I can't make the link work, you will have to cut and paste if you want the recipe. 

 Every February, WA gets a little faux-spring. For a week or two the weather pretends that it is warming up and the sun shines. It never fails to end in a nasty weather spell, and I never fail to think that spring is here. I am itching to get out gardening.  This year I am going to give each of the kids a garden bed and help them plant and plan it. Hopefully this weekend I will start to attack the weeds. I am a great planter and a rather mediocre gardner. I am hoping having the kids involved will make it really fun.  Tomorrow I am going to take Matcha to Isaac and Shkuri's class for show and tell. 

   In the last two weeks, Elias has developed a little bratty streak. He has started doing all these little boy things; like copying what people say, or sticking out his tongue when he is annoyed. Sigh. We are working with him to stop being rude, but I fear there is no going back. I must say that there is always a little heartbreak involved the first time your almost 4 year old sticks out his tongue in defiance at you.