Grateful for warm weather!  This past week it has been so nice and warm.  Very unseasonably warm.  We had the windows and doors open to air out the house, and the kids exposed their skinny little legs.  Anya couldn’t wait to put on her new clothes as it was finally warm enough to wear them.

Grateful for new grill grates.  We’ll see if it makes the grill last a bit longer.  I think next to replace will be the gas pipes…they are very, very rusty.  Like falling apart rusty.  No wonder things cook too fast!   When the little pipe is missing the “top”, the adjustments on the front of the grill MEAN NOTHING.

Grateful for little kids’ imaginations.  Here they are preparing for the leprechaun.  They were sure their traps would work.  Kailan even set up activities for the leprechaun to play with little notes at each one, and each had a trap to either make noise to wake Kailan or to trap him.  Anya’s was a bit simpler, but still set up quite nicely.  Unfortunately, neither one of them was able to entrap the little man, but he left them some gold chocolate coins for their efforts.

And above all, watch
with glittering eyes
the whole world around
you because the greatest
secrets are always hidden
in the most unlikely places. 
Those who don’t believe in
magic will never find it. 

– Roald Dahl

It’s amazing that the leprechaun found his way through Kai’s room!

Grateful for perseverence.  The kids are trying to learn to ride their bikes without their training wheels.   Patience is the key here.  It takes a bit to get this… but once you learn you never forget. Right??  I think the last time Brian and I got on a bike we were biking down a volcano in Maui….at about 40 mph.  Brakes are quite useful in that situation. 😉