My seven-year-old grand daughter and two-year-old grand son were her for three nights. We picked them up in Springfield, VT on the way home from Easter dinner in Connecticut. We watched Alvin and the Chipmunks, Elmo's World, and some TV show about a family of wizards that I've forgotten the name of. We read some stories and drew lots of pictures. We spent a great deal of time at the playground and went to visit the horses up the road. More time spent running around outside than watching TV--a successful visit. The added bonus--no trips to McDonald's. Kristen was disappointed that Tuesday's night supper was chicken since she was "in the mood for seafood." I asked if by "seafood" she meant fish sticks, but no--lobster or shrimp.
It's been a while since I have posted anything and even my reading your posts is falling by the wayside. I am in Florida now. I have a yard where little attention was spent on landscaping for the past years so I am slowly and (somewhat) methodically addressing that. I also volunteer to work at the pollinator garden and the edible garden I helped install at the UU grounds and I took over the volunteer job of cleaning out the overgrown community garden by my neighborhood mailboxes. The neighbor who was doing that got sick and could no longer attend to it. It's a bigger job than I'd thought at first -- not only overgrown with weeds, but the plants that are wanted there are in life and death competition for each others' spaces. And two walks a day, morning and evening, so Levi can keep up with addiction to canine social media and a daily rousing came of stick or ball midday take up another chunk of my time. I have a weekly meditation group that I co-facilitate, and my own ...
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