Right now it's 84F (29C) with a light breeze. A gorgeous day and much too nice to be stuck inside reading, yet that's what I'm doing. It's days like this that make me wonder if all this work is going to be worth it. I try to tell myself so!

It's supposed to drop to around to overnight temps around the freezing mark within a couple of days, so the reprieve is short-lived, yet it's really a pleasant thought that spring is almost here. This is the kind of thing I was expecting when we moved here, not the sub-arctic temperatures that we've been having this winter. It's really not that different from my winter last year, and there aren't even any chinooks here! Being so far from friends and family should at least be compensated by better weather, but so far, it feels the same.

What a boring blog! just talking about the weather.

We did go see something really cool yesterday - Steph's school was putting on A Midsummer Night's Dream, but instead of moving straight through the play, each scene was enacted between 2 and 4 times by different groups who brought different interpretations to the scene. Some were more dramatic, some more comedic, and some just staged differently (in some cases, they changed the order of actions within a particular scene). That, along with the varying abilities of the students made it an interesting night.

Steph did well - she was originally cast to play Cobweb and Quince in her scene, but the boy who was supposed to play Oberon wasn't there, so she took on three parts within one scene - she did really well and took the temporary loss of one of her props instride. Way to go Steph!

Our family is now eager to see Angela is The Wizard of Oz at the end of the year - she plays the wicked witch and has been practicing her "I'm melting! I'm melting...! throughout the house. They both seem to have quite the flare for the dramatic. Wonder where they get that from...?

And kudos to Sandy for placing 1st in the 2 mile at her meet on Monday! Swift kid!

Very domestic flavor to this post - from the weather to kids activities...oh, well....at least I didn't tell you the state of the vegetable garden or what color I'm painting the linen closet, or some other such mundanity as that (as if I have the time to care what the linen closet looks like!) ha!