Spring has Sprung! The apricots are blooming in front of Mom and Dad's house on EOM and it is a more beautiful sight every year I see them. When I sit on their deck and look out at the orchard of trees, covered in snowy white blooms, buzzing with bees, I can't believe I grew up in such a place. You can get a peach or apricot just about anywhere in the summer, but where else can you get a whole orchard in bloom like that? It is heavenly. And the farmers are busy, busy, busy getting their irrigation pipes ready, their wind machines tuned up, pruning, pruning, pruning and praying that the spring freeze doesn't freeze.
The girls and I spent the day at our lovely Palisade Beach, playing in the sand, in the river, and stripping down to their underwear with friends. I can't say enough times how much I love Riverbend Park. Its become my place to run in the mornings and every time we go down there (which is at least once a week) I tell myself that we need to come down MORE, like everyday! When the girls are ready to get up and go, instead of get up and play for hours, I want to go down to Riverbend every morning for our morning walk. I think that running through the cottonwoods and cattails would be a magical way for a child to start the day. I know its been good for me! I've seen an eagle down there a number of occasions, a family of foxes (mom, dad and 2 kits) and signs of the beaver, which we've since learned is nocturnal, so if we want to see him, we're going to have to go on a moonlight beaver walk.
I completed teacher training for the Music Together children's music program at the beginning of the month and that was a fab experience. It is a rare chance in life when something so sweet and true brings equally wonderful people together for a common purpose. The program was great, the teacher was great all twelve of the other people in my class were inspiring and sweet. I'm so glad I did it. Now I have to do the work of starting my own business and opening the two centers that I want to open. I've been getting distracted though, with the Birthfest business.
My pal Leah has so graciously laid down the framework for a birth information fair to take place in September. I'm heading up the play committee and have typically procrastinated my work until the DAY BEFORE our meeting. I guess that I've been conditioned to believe that procrastinating worked in the past, so why wouldn't it work now, right? I'm excited about this group and the women that it has brought together.
I'm tired so I'm hitting the hay. After pulling the girls in the bike trailer (Firefly) down to Riverbend Park, I hauled them up the EOM hill to Granny's house. That hill is a killer WITHOUT pulling 75+ pounds of children, trailer, sand toys, snacks and blankets behind me. When we started up the hill, they asked, "Why are we going so slow?" And I'm like, "Because this is hard!" While I'm pumping away in my clogs (not my bike shoes) they're back there enjoying the view and a popsicle and telling me to go faster. Oh, the things we do for love.
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