What We've Been Up To

If the real Mother Nature accidentally fell off the roof, and I were appointed the new Mother Nature in her place, (think The Santa Claus but with less Tim Allen and more frizzy, red hair...)  my first task would to make it a steady 65-70 degrees in Massachusetts for 11 months out of the year.  Only eleven because I'd miss snow on Christmas.  December would be white and magical, and as soon as January hit...it would all melt away.  

In real life my powers over the weather only extend so far as to shake an angry fist at the sky every three days when it drastically changes from hurricane, to blizzard, to sweltering heat, and back again.  And why, oh why, do I still not own a raincoat?!     

There has been no fist shaking and Mother-Nature cursing this week, however, because the weather has been beooootiful!  We've been taking advantage as much as possible.  

 First, Nana and Pop came to visit over the weekend.  We stopped by a barn sale in town, where we won a quilt, and discovered this awesome tree along the way!

It's Winnie the Pooh's house!!  See the Mr. Sanderz sign an the hunny pot?  

The most interesting part is that the tree is completely hollow.  When you look up from inside Pooh Bear's house, this is what you see:  

Pretty awesome.  (Or perhaps the setting of a Stephen King novel...you be the judge.)  

Nana and Pop offered to watch Madeline for a few hours on Saturday afternoon, so Eric and I took advantage with a round of mini golf and some dinner.  We'd actually never been mini golfing together before.  He won, but I got a hole in one!  It was like a true, romantic high school date...  

Sunday morning we had breakfast with Nana and Pop, and let Madeline run up and down a big hill a few times before bidding them farewell.  

In the afternoon, I put together a fairy garden for Madeline.  She loves it.  She picked out the pink fairy herself and named her Flora.  She likes to stop by and move Flora around to new places.  This confused Eric quite a bit his morning when Flora had mysteriously moved.   

Meanwhile, we've been taking lots of walks around the neighborhood after school this week, and we even broke out the grill for the first time on Monday night.  

Ah, Mother Nature, you done good.  Keep up the good work!