easter, birthdays, and dusting off the cobwebs.

Why, hello there... it has been quite a long time now, hasn't it? I am happy to be with you again today. Today is a special day. Along with being a day of celebration, a day of forgiveness and thankfulness and joy for many people around the world, it is also my mother's birthday and the fourth anniversary of my having started this blog. Douglas and I spent this beautiful day doing wonderful things with wonderful people... we started the morning off with a little bit of scrambling (I am a perfectionist, after all) and a few tears (I have to constantly remind myself that perfection is not attainable) but everything worked out, as it always does. Doug and I caught a nice sermon at church and followed it up with a family brunch at the apartment. With my pretty new pink glasses filled with bright, bubbly prosecco, some lovely spring flowers, and my "famous" potato salad, I was in hostess heaven. We followed up the nice visit from my family with an early Easter dinner with our dear friends Danielle and Jason. After a long nap we are still filled to the brim with food and slowly transitioning back into school mode. 

If you have not noticed by the long bouts of silence, this year is crrrrrazzzzyyyy! It is flying by and Douglas and I have so many exciting, overwhelming things in the mix. Weekends filled with classes, school field trips, interviews, frisbee matches, weddings. Oh, hello, life - did you have plans for me?! My tenure year is every bit the overachieving, long-houred, beautiful mess that I expected it to be, and Douglas is busy with internship applications and senior projects. I am happy to have a small break next week and the opportunity to visit two of my favorite girls, Carolina and Kim, in my beloved Boston. I have been filling most of my free time with reading, something that I cannot get enough of right now, so I apologize for the silence. April is expected to be even more swamped, as I start preparing for an upcoming festival that we are planning for one of the clubs I run at school with after-school rehearsals every day of the week. I promise I will try to fill you in during my free moments. So many wonderful things are going on it is hard to breathe!