If I had to pick my favorite season, well, summer wouldn’t be it. I’m not too fond of heat, humidity and sweating. When it’s hot outside I want to be in a nice cool, air conditioned house. Today we’re supposed to go into the low 80’s. I really wish it would just stay spring and stop jumping back and forth between spring and summer! I want to enjoy spring.

We were very busy this weekend, running the boys around, shopping for two new houses…

Oz, our Red Fire Bellied Toad, has a new home and so does his food, the (I’m so sorry we have to feed you to Oz) crickets. Everyone seems comfy and I think our Beta, Lazarus, (Not really his name…the twins named him a Japanese name but since he has come back from the dead 2 times I call him Lazarus.) is enjoying the company. We have a regular Critters Row now on the boys’ desk.

I picked up a few spring gardening items and pots and seeds for the boys to plant after Easter. The forsythia bushes are just starting to bud and I cut a few off to decorate my kitchen table.

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Homeschooling

Evan-Moor.com has their new Spring printables and clipart out.

HomesEstore.com offers Amanda Bennett’s Easter Notebook Pages as their freebie.

The White House has an Easter Activity Book for download and since both Earth Day (April 22, 2007) and Arbor Day (April 27, 2007) are coming up, you can find a cute coloring book from the Environmental Protection Agency. Both are in PDF format. And speaking of Earth Day, this is one of my favorite articles written by my friend and fellow Catholic homeschooling mom, Maureen.

PreschoolLearners.com is a great website offering 400 free printable worksheets.

A Prayer in Spring
~ Robert Frost ~

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid-air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.