dual personalities

Did you have a beautiful spring weekend where you live? Saturday was absolutely perfect in our neck of the woods. We sat outside on our balcony reading and drinking coffee in the morning, and later we took a long walk around the neighborhood, wearing shorts. I am ready to get some sun on my pale winter skin. All that sun took it out of me, though, so after the walk I took an afternoon nap and then it was practically dinnertime. Gone are the days of my chore-filled quarantine Saturdays…

We continue to monitor our backyard bird life. DN has been very enamored with this woodpecker, whose interesting calls and cries he can hear but I cannot. But aren’t you impressed by how he’s gone to town on this tree? The bugs don’t stand a chance!

On Sunday, we focused on preparing for the arrival of baby — this month! We installed the car seat, and inventoried the gifts and hand-me-downs we have received. I did a wee bit of laundry and vacuumed.

Besides that, I kvetched about how much the baby moves around and how literally no sleeping positions are comfortable anymore. The countdown is on!

*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow