Climate Change

This has been the most mild winter I can remember and we have been loving it! I have been able to walk outside in the morning before going to work without worrying about ice, our NiMo bills have been less than $300 and Rob has only shoveled 3 times. However, I am worried about the plants that needed a dormancy period in order to bloom and the possibility of drought later in the year since there will be no spring melting.

Rob and I look forward to the emerging spring flowers....excited that spring is right around the corner. Except I noticed these in mid-February and earlier in the week I took this picture. In Upstate New York, February is not the month to be thinking about spring.

Thinking about babies....

The excitement around the birth of beautiful Jack has me thinking constantly about babies. (Don't worry...I am just being nostalgic.) I dragged out the photo albums and tried to recapture the experience of Ian as a newborn and growing up. Beautiful memories blend seamlessly with some wretched recollections and in the end I have this intelligent, considerate, enlightened adult. I guess kids don't need to have an impeccable, idyllic childhoods after all. However, I am going to visit him on Thursday to check on the progress..... Just dinner, I am not going to have any creepy moments like the mother in Love You Forever.

One of the many advantages to sending your child to college is missing their presence. While phone calls are rare, we do keep in touch through texting. This is how I find out that he is turning his room into a living room and moving his bed in with Irish Mike and Nihaal, using the campus computer labs since he is having his motherboard replaced again, the SI Swim Suit issue arrived and he is loving this semester. Why? His brilliant mind and "I don't want to be a lawyer" arguing skills are activated during Intro to Asian Religions and Political Theory and Cinema.....I can't wait for the conversations around the dinner table when he is home again. This ought to be interesting.