I’m carefully averting my eyes from all uncovered windows, so that I can continue to pretend that there is *not* currently great piles worth of white stuff tumbling from the sky (but…but… it was finally melting!).  **La-la-la!  I can’t see you!**  If all the sand wasn’t covered in snow, I’d go bury my head in it.    Ah, well.  We’ll be back to the warm weather of last week eventually.

At the end of last week, when the children still sick enough to need rest, but well enough to be frustrated by it, I pulled out a secret stash of modeling wax and asked them to make some things for the nature table.  Lots of little figures of suns and flowers emerged and everyone felt a bit better, celebrating the coming spring, even if it wasn’t in the way we would have liked (running around outside!).