Snow and ducklings!

What a week this has been!  It was our second week of a planned "staycation" for this spring - knowing that post spring break my work would ramp up considerably and there would be no opportunity for using stored up vacation time before the end of the academic year (when I would lose it!).  In addition to our short stint in Charlottesville, we had grand plans for our week at home - namely getting the ground ready for a big spring planting push. 

That was before 1-2 FEET of snow came into view in the forecast...

So there was one work day with the ground bare and in that day Jason and J got kale, spinach, chard and maybe a few other things in the ground, where they are now covered and slowly soaking up moisture from the melting snow.  We hope that makes them especially happy!

The rest of the week did not go as planned and both Jason and I had to admit multiple times to feeling rather disoriented by the shift in plans.  The best unintended bonus of the need to do some indoor work is that the laundry room now has lots of shelving in it.  Very nice, especially since that is one of the room all of us living at Tangly Woods share. It has already made the space more user-friendly - I enjoyed starting laundry this morning more than usual!

But the purpose of this post is mostly to comment on the highlight of this week and try to focus on how this week was viewed through a child's eye - pure joy!  Could Kali have asked for more in a 3 day period: watching 17 baby ducklings hatch, watching snow pour out of the sky for a total of about 20 inches, and at the end of the hatch and after the snow had finished falling a sleepover with her two best friends?!  If she wouldn't have had to deal with the adults in the household who were struggling to view the snowstorm as pure bliss, she would have been fully in heaven!

I don't think we dampened her joy too much though.  She did not stray long from the back kitchen from Tuesday to Thursday (often eating by their box).  She did take breaks for some sledding adventures.  Here' a few photos from recent days: