lately

• listening to the song "stompa" by serena ryder over and over.  i heard it on a vancouver radio station driving by myself home from vancouver the other night, and it was awesome!  you can hear it here.

• watching downton abbey season 3.  can you believe what happened to sybil?!?!

• valentine's day crafting.  we have made heart-shaped cookies, pancakes and biscuits, beeswax hearts, felt hearts, paper hearts, potato-heart stamps, and of course done lots of heart-shaped-foam stickering on everything.

• frantically sending out the last of the christmas cards before lent begins and christmas cards become really inappropriate!

• listening to noah read us "weird but true" facts from his new books. 

• thinking about what will happen in the next wildwood chronicles book!  (i finally finished "under wildwood", and it was awesome.)

• following ezra around the house saving him from dangerous situations.  loving his toothy, dimply, breathy laugh.

• checking on the progress of the bulbs in the garden.  getting ready to plant peas.

• doing laundry.  constantly.  how can we possibly have so much laundry!?!?!

• biking again on non-rainy days.  i think it's time to get the green seat hooked up for ezra!

• working on another pair of pants for ezra from this pattern.  these are really fun and so cozy!

• doing some spring cleaning.  i am trying to go through every little corner of this little house and organize/eliminate!  it is slow-going but feels really good.

• thinking about summer plans.  looking forward to camping/biking/island beaches!

• getting ready for lent.  the kids are excited to try to "be serious and think about jesus" to get ready for easter.  now, how, exactly?