Laowai

What are we up to? Not much. Mostly waiting for Spring. I peek around the yard looking for any bits of green popping out. I check on my tiny pea plants each time I walk to the car. I open the back door and stand there listening to the birds while it's still dark. It's all coming in it's own time but I'm impatient. 

Claire came home from school with a swollen and painful thumb last Wednesday. She was playing around with her girlfriends and she fell down with her thumb going straight into the concrete. Ouch. By Friday it wasn't any better so we went and got and x-ray. We found out she has a small fracture on her thumb. Poor thing. It's her right thumb so she can't write (or text) very well. So she is also trying to be patient.

Here's a photo of her bedroom. She got a hand-me-down bed frame last weekend. It helps keep her pillows from scooting off the top of the bed in the night and it has a trundle too. I love the she loves to decorate her space. She's always adjusting her wall of photos.

Our trip to Italy is coming up and it's on my mind. I had to have a new accessory for the wedding weekend. A cute vintage basket handbag from Etsy. It's so summery isn't it!

Brian took me to the Lyric Opera, they were performing Beethoven's 9th Symphony and I enjoyed it very much. It was fun to see the musicians (something you don't get when you watch an opera).

Almost done with another knitting project. It's a pillow.

Cinnamon rolls. I've had good luck with Shauna Sever's recipe lately.

I was vowing to take it easy with the Easter candy this year – since I still have a chocolate bunny from 2021 in the back of a cupboard. But then Brian told me yesterday that Easter candy is his favorite and he wanted some. With his endorsement I went a little wild and now we have every kind of Easter sweet that you can buy at an American grocery store.