This last week has been so beautiful! Easter Sunday was rather chilly but it has been warming up all week and we have had more days of melting than not. +17C/62F at 7p.m. is not something that I am going to complain about! That and the bugs have not arrived yet. No jackets, no bugs biting, just sunshine and puddles! The kids have been spending much of their time outside, often taking their schoolwork out onto the front deck to work on it or to read. There has been lots of splashing in puddles, planting of birdseed, and climbing of trees. Yesterday we walked uptown to the ice cream shoppe with my mom. My dad met up with us on his way back from work and walked home with us. The culverts have not been able to keep up with fast melt and so most of the walk was dry but there times where we had to walk on the road as the ditches were full and had overflowed and submerged the sidewalk. Judah insisted on walking with everyone else the last third of the way home and must have walked about 2 blocks. I anticipate a very deep sleep for him tonight!