Four Feet More

This week of Spring Break just flew by! It's been a good one, although not as productive as I would have liked. I'm much more content to sit and read a book than do any actual work, which means that I still have a stack of papers to grade and lesson plans to write. Oh well, I've still got 2.5 days before I have to go back to school.

Easter was a fun time. My uncle from Chicago is visiting with his family, so Vika and Eamon got to spend sometime with their cousins. Here's the three little ones (Vika, Eamon and Macaroon) after a successful Easter Egg Hunt.

We were able to spend some time with Uncle T and the family on Monday as well. We all went to a local Bocce Ball place, played a game (which the guys won) and had lunch. Jeff takes his Bocce very seriously.
On Tuesday, Jeff and I took the kids to Thyme for Tea, where we had a Victorian tea and wore silly hats. Vika espeically enjoyed it and spent the whole time sipping tea with her pinky up.


The rest of the week has been spent recovering from my chest cold and experimenting with yarn. I tried kool-aid dying, which was a lot of fun. My first batch was supposed to be a self-striping dark-red and pink sock wool (I used Black Cherry and Blastin' Berry), but it wound up being more of a varigated red. It still looks cool though, and the smells as the yarn was brewing took me right back to my childhood. Last night I experimented with Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade and wound up with a lovely pale aqua yarn that I may use to knit Vika a shrug or something.

That's it for now. I've got several more interesting posts swirling around in my head, so maybe I'll get the motivation to write them down. Or maybe I'll just go back to my book...