March Highlights

• March was a smorgasborg of weather.  Our garage floor reflected this well.  There were winter boots, rubber boots, runner, sandals, and crocs strewn everywhere....and they were all worn within one week of eachother!!
• We bought the kids a motorbike.  A Honda XR-80, to be specific. While Makenna thought it was great, Mason had a complete panic attack when he saw it on the back of the truck.  I think he smiled in his sleep the whole night.  We've known for a long time that he'd loooooove a dirtbike, but he hasn't harassed us about it at all.  The night we brought the bike home, Jeff was tucking him in, and Mason said "not begging really works, Dad.  I get almost everything I want by not begging."  Ahem.
• Makenna went to school wearing sandals, shorts and a toque.  That struck me as funny.
• Jeff and the neighbourhood pyromaniac set fire to our pet pasture.  We were surprised it burned as quickly as it did.  The fire burned in a location on our yard that is sometimes wet until June.  This fire was lit one week after the snow began to melt.  See the snow in the first picture of this post?  That photo was taken exactly one week before the fire pics.  It was the fasted spring melt of my life, that's for sure. 
• I completed my first entire year as a full-time Discovery Time teacher at Green Valley School.  What a fascinating group of kids.
• I reached the half-way point to my goal of recording 1000 "gifts" or small blessings in my life (inspired by the book "One Thousand Gifts", by Ann Voskamp).  Here's a small snippet from March as I cross the halfway mark....

#500  Sitting on the deck with Jeff, Gary and Earlene last night - love the spontaneity and casual atmosphere
#501 Walking barefoot on a snowhill
#502  Friends who came over for lunch "spur of the moment"
#503  Sitting in silence, alone, on a chair on the deck
#504  Bear sleeping in a little patch of sunshine on the landing
#505  My window is open!!!  Sweet spring breeze.
#506  Taelyn and Tyler swinging on the tire swing together....an unexpected, sudden friendship
#507  A brother speaking so kindly to my little girl
#508  The bands of coral and pink across the sky at sunset
#509  Another evening of fantastic conversation with dearly loved girlfriends
#510  A MIL who found the perfect pair of ski pants for Mason at MCC
#511  An impromptu walk in Steinbach with a treasured friend
#512  The alpine currants are budding
#513  Birds chirping!  Meadowlarks singing!  Welcome welcome!!
#514  The freedom that comes from forgiveness
#515  Seeing his eyes light up when he saw me
#516  Yellow rubber boots

Happy Spring!