I didn’t get to spend as much time as I wanted with my ladies this weekend, because I was junkyard huntin’ and Scout fixin’, but I did get to spend the balance of Sunday with them, and it was a great day. As detailed elsewhere, Peer Pressure is back on the road. After wrenching Saturday morning, I sanded the floor in the den in preparation for a third and final coat of polyurethane, which went down today before work. In the evening e went out for a fantastic vegetarian Indian dinner with a family from Finn’s co-op class, and afterwards enjoyed the sound of the three girls running across the restaurant lawn as the light faded. When we got home there were two huge boxes of produce on the back steps from Aunt C. (I don’t know if I should publicize the details, but WOW, and thank you) and after Finn went to sleep Mama and I sorted produce with some cold beer and tried to find space in the fridge for everything.

Sunday was shopping day, so we bundled up and hit the stores for some essentials, then came home and got ready for a family fun day at her co-op, for which we had to wake her early from a nap. This did not go over so well, because the fun day was shutting down early and we missed most of the events and food, but met up with her friends. After meltdowns involving shoes and balloons (and a failed attempt at trying out the moon bounce—thwarted by a snotty kid), we decided to adjourn to the playground across the street and let the girls run off some energy.

Sunday evening we had the windows open and I made some guacamole with our dinner and enjoyed being with my family, and I couldn’t be happier to see white buds on the cherry tree outside. Spring is coming and it feels good to be alive with another cold winter almost behind us.