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Happy Spring! It’s in full force here, as our trip to the botanic gardens this morning can attest. There are 8 zillion gorgeous different pansies and tulips, and even the lilacs are starting. The cherry blossoms are about 30% there, which means they’ve timed it perfectly for next weekend’s festival<\/a> (which we will not<\/b> be attending, since the entire rest of the city will be. Plus I have extra recycling to take to the food coop, stinky hippie that I am.). Unfortunately it’s set to rain tomorrow and Sunday, bah. Jonathan’s dad is visiting so that means lots of crazy ordering the grandpa about by the little mister in<\/b>side rather than out. Hope the neighbors are ready.<\/p>\n

We had a nice easter weekend visiting with my family, including my brother, sister-in-law and 10 week old niece. Gus was a gas with Baby Ellie — kissing her head (“she’s softer even than a cat!”) and cooing over her various tiny extremities (“she’s like a little doll!”). It was insanely cute.<\/p>\n

I, on the other hand, felt a little bad to be the only family member not to arrive bearing gifts. Since when did easter morph from a candy holiday to a candy-and-presents one? As the only a former catholic in my family I must admit that I feel a bit weird about easter. I am completely fine with christmas, since there’s really been a tradition of secular christmas in America for many many years now. Plus just because I’m not christian doesn’t mean I don’t think that Jesus was a good guy whos birthday deserves celebration. But easter, weeeeellllll…hard to cut the christianity out of it. I think next year we should have Aunt Maura’s agnostic<\/a> easter egg hunt. Is there candy in the eggs? Are there even eggs to hunt? Maybe, maybe not.<\/p>\n

So I finally got off my butt to redesign this site. I’m sure you’ve all noticed that the frames are gone, hooray! It’s not quite the exact way I’d like it to be yet: I need to go clean up the excessive tables + font tags in peas & carrots, and I want to add a graphic to the nav, and I am annoyed that the green in the nav will not go all the way across the screen on the blog pages, but it’s a start. I’m not the best photoshopper in the world and the wordpress stylesheets are cornfusing, so this will all take time, time, time. Someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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