After a few days of what felt like hard labor; wednesday I worked a 12 hour shift, and Thursday was a blur of errands and house cleaning, I am enjoying some down time. Spring has officially arrived to the Northwest this week. Ariel and I took Hamda and Elias to the park this morning when we dropped the big kids off at school, and then we set out to garden. It feels so wonderful to be spending chunks of time outside again; my poor garden is so neglected, I am having to excavate it from knee high weeds and grass. It was fun to get out and poke around my garden again; my lilac and all my fruit trees are blossoming nicely. The rhubarb must have loved this dreary winter - I have never seen it looking better. The kids are the best part about gardening. They love to help dig and screech with delight at every earth worm and potato bug they uncover.
Last night we sat down to watch a movie - Ariel had gotten Ingmar Bergman's stage production of The Magic Flute (In Swedish! With Subtitles!). I couldn't believe he had gotten that - I am quite ambitious about trying to get my kids to absorb high brow stuff, but I thought he was a bit off his rocker. We only watched the first act, but they were defintely into it. It might be because they had spent the entire day after school biking and running around and were too tired to be bored, but they were asking about watching the second part this morning. Go Figure.
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