Spring. It is just about my favorite season. I love seeing all the colors and lushness of things growing. I have always fantasized that one day I would be able to have a veggie garden and a lush flower garden too....kind of like an English cottage garden. Well, if you have ever lived in military quarters, you know the difficulties of doing that and that they all look the same and sterile pretty much. So I decided to spruce up the front walkway of my piece of military home. It was fun to go out and get the flowers. I told my mom about it and she asked me to take a picture of it before it all died. Either that was a commentary on my gardening skills or a commentary on the weather of TX and how inhospitable it can be. I would have done more but I ran out of money. Gardening can be pricey.
In other news, we just had our spring break. It didn't so much feel like a break as a quick breath of air. It zoomed by too quickly. The kids thought that if I wasn't doing something kid friendly every moment that I had failed, but we still managed to go bowling, see Escape to Witch Mountain, play in a park, eat out, go to the Ward camp out and go to the zoo. Not a bad list. Most of those things happened in 3 separate days. I am not a constant fun machine contrary to popular belief(my children's mainly). I wish that I had had more energy and money to make a trip with the kids somewhere, but alas, it wasn't meant to be. The Zoo was a highlight. It wasn't huge but had a good amount of things to see. They had these wood cut outs that you put your head on top to take pictures with. Fun for the kids. I especially liked the boys shot on the lady bugs. ha.
The ward camp out was fun too.....until we tried to sleep. I sit here and laugh because it was kind of a comedy of errors. The kids and I slept in a small 4 man tent. I blew up a queen mattress that filled most of the tent. You see, I had the brilliant idea that Gavin, Laurel and I could share that mattress and Connor could sleep next to use on some different cushioning. Connor complained about every noise. At one point, a baby awoke in the tent next to us and after listening to it for a moment, Connor whines to me that he can't stand it anymore and for me to do something. LOL. I told him to chill that the mom was taking care of it and he would have to just deal until the baby calmed down. We also heard a pack of canines of some sort howling and yipping. It wasn't scary but it did keep me up and listening to what was going on. In the midst of all this, Laurel flipped and flopped to find a comfortable (and warm) position until by the end of the night she was rolled up into a small ball almost on top of my head. And the tent inside was wet when we awoke.....something about warm bodies and heavy breathing versus cold air outside makes for a damp interior. I didn't get much sleep if you can't tell. I enjoyed the socializing with the members, but I learned what I would and wouldn't do next time I go camping. Yes, there will be a next time.
In the times that we weren't having massive amounts of "kid fun", I hung at the house and napped, read, and cleaned. It was nice not to have to get up morning at 5:30am. Tim is doing well himself also and we are already counting down the days until he comes home in June for R&R. Oh, and all my friends there in MO, if you know someone looking to rent a house, ours will be vacant at the end of April. I so hate owning a house right now.......sigh. Chin up, I tell myself. There are only 2 more months of school and then I can escape TX for the summer.
