Spring is coming! Is what I thought when I saw these buds on the Magnolia bush in our backyard.. Well, apparently I was wrong as can be, since less than a week later, this is what I see late one evening...
Our house with snow? M.u.s.t. capture on photo to show the kids...
It was an excellent opportunity for me to test out my camera's every function! :)
Figure this photo is cool:
I know the snow looks like rain but it was coming down fast enough where the shutter speed & the poor light didn't want to cooperate with each outher enough to actually capture flakes.
The snow didn't last long at all. By the next morning, it was all gone & rain had taken over, of course. Good thing I got pictures.
Last Saturday the kids were excellent & let us sleep in. Their habits have been late the last few weeks, so they were catching up on the Zs too, I guess. Anyway, when we finally got up I had to go to every room & open the blinds. (I HAVE to do this immediately first thing when I get up. I do not understand how people can live without daylight)
As I opened the blinds in the bonus room, I see huge black smoke - and actually flames - from as few blocks away!! YAAAYYY!! The school burning!! No, I'm not some radical secret pyromaniac. The old school down the street was burned down by the fire department, and I had read about this in the paper but of course forgot what day it was scheduled to happen.
We rushed to get everyone dressed, packed three youngest in the wonderful stroller, then walked down to see the school burn. The main building had already burnt down for the most part, but we still got some excitement.
We saw one building burn & fall apart. Thankfully, the smoke wasn't our direction, but we could feel the heat way back where we were standing.
The kids loved it. I had told them all about this when I read about it in the paper, so they knew it wasn't scary or dangerous.
Then the whole family walked down to Main street, and we had coffee & super good ham & cheese croissants at Battle Grounds - a coffee house:
(img source:http://hasson.com/communities/community/battleground)
When we left from there, it had started raining pretty bad. Thankfully, I had the huge rain cover in the stroller basket, so the kids stayed all dry the whole way home.
Then when we came home we deep cleaned the whole house.
Then when we came home we deep cleaned the whole house.
And then our good friends invited us for supper & we stayed there all evening.
= perfect Saturday spent with the family I love the most!!
4 comments:
Great post. Days like those are the ones we never forget about. The little things, some moments shared. Love it. Btw. I agree 100 percent w pulling up the blinds FIRST thing in the am. Doesn't matter if it's still dark outside!!
Haha I am obsessive about the blinds thing! If I get to sleep in & I get up to see the rest of the family living with blinds SHUT I'm always shocked "WHY are you guys in a CAVE???"
and also, every time my kids see your picture they say "there's mamma" or "she looks like mamma".
Weird... that school is gone and weird that Old Town BG is in that old chapel now, I didn't realize. When I lived in MT I would come home from work to the house I shared w/ 5 other girls and they would all be sitting there in the living room with all the doors locked (I had to pull out my keys every time) and ALL THE BLINDS DOWN. Unbelievable! Different people value different things...
I always lock the door, no matter what time of the day - and with the dark months of winter here, I don't like to open up the blinds in the morning...because then our house will be like a TV for the rest of the street. We can't see out - but they all can see us. I prefer not feeling like a monkey... ;)
But, now - sun is back in town, at least for a few hours every day - and THEN I get the blinds up! :)
Awesome post, btw. Love the pictures!
Oh, and no wonder your kids think Kaisa looks like you...when even YOU thought she was you! ;) Remember?! ;)
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