You're welcome. :)

Do you like it? It's adorable. I don't think I've seen it that short on you before.

Spring Day -- Yesterday. Walking down the street in Paris with one of my best friends in the world, talking about nothing, eating a really good sandwich from a street vendor and enjoying a gorgeous, sunny day.

Anytime you can write "Yesterday. Walking down the street in Paris..." you've got an excellent start on a memorable spring day.

Note to self: sandwiches and spring days seem to work well together.

SA! Nice haircut!!!!!!

1) Remembrance of a favorite spring day.

There's no real specific one -- just, when I think Spring, and Yay, I think of the first softball practice of the year, even though we're all out of shape and sore and stiff and it's still kind of cold and almost always muddy, but it doesn't matter because softball means that the winter is over over over, even if it gets cold again one last time, winter really is on the way out, and what's more, winter KNOWS it's on the way out, and even the mud smells good, all rich and fertile and loamy.

2) Something you're looking forward to in the next month.

SA is coming up this weekend -- YAY!

VW -- I use garlic to combat a yeast infection, I'll white font the details

This sounds weird and like it wouldn't work but I had a linger yeast infection and this worked fast. You take a whole peeled clove of garlic and wrap it in some cheesecloth and then tie it up with dental floss (preferably unwaxed) and insert it like you would a tampon. Do this for several nights. I was highly skeptical but willing to try anything and I felt relief after the first night.

A good spring day...hm...

I'm gonna pick the day I graduated from high school. It was a beautiful day. I looked great (the gowns were purple, which is a fabulous color on me). My family was all there. My boyfriend and his family were all there. Oh, and I got an award that I was not expecting. I think it was called the Musician of the Year award. I got another award, but I knew I was getting that one. It had already been announced. And, I don't remember what it was. That one really stuck with me...

It's kind of cool, but because I went to a really small school, 13 in my graduating class, graduation was a really big deal for each student. Each student got called to the platform for their diploma, and all of their accomplishments were read. I think it made some people nervous, but I liked it. It was like all that hard work was worth it and getting acknowledged.

Too bad I threw it all away...

Ok...what I'm looking forward to in the next month...the unveiling of this month's quilt pattern. I'm doing a mystery quilt-of-the-month with one of the local quilt shops, and it is much fun. Of course, I need to try to get February's quilt done before March's is introduced. But, well, these legs have been hurting too much to sew. So, I'll just do my best. I don't want to get behind, though.

1) Remembrance of a favorite spring day. I have two.

The week after Easter six years ago, I spent the day with a close acquaintance while her husband was out of town. We spent about 5 hours sitting in a park next to a mountain creek and talking. By the end of the day, she had become one of my best friends and my views of religion, particularly of Christianity, had completely changed. It was one of the pivotal moments in my life.

Probably nearly two years later, in early spring, I was out walking with a friend near one of the local glaciers. Because the freezing weather had made the lake lower than usual, we were able to walk almost out to the runoff waterfall. While my friend stood a bit away talking to some friends that we met out there, I went to the edge of the land and stood just at the edge of the spray of the waterfall. While I was standing there, it started to snow, huge, fluffy flakes. It was so beautiful that I just stood there, laughing out loud for joy.

2) Something you're looking forward to in the next month. My birthday and, in just over a month, Easter.

This was a fantastic idea, Hec. Thanks!

Aimee, Owen gets changed pretty much wherever he'll stay still. He will still tolerate his changing pad on his dresser but often, it's on the sofa, floor, bed or wherever. I also keep some of these handy to flip down in case it's a messy diaper. Because really, who wants to be cleaning poop up off the sofa or bedspread?

Too bad I threw it all away...

No. Not this. You are wonderful and your choices made you what you are. I don't know the details of your life, and it may be turning out differently than anticipated, but not this.

Moms of children over 12 months: Where do you change them?

I've never had a changing table. The babies have always been changed on the floor, the couch, the bed...wherever. We keep diapers, wipes and ointments in the top drawer of the dresser, and just grab what we need before chasing down the small person so that they can be changed wherever they're cornered.

I love spring more than any other season. I can't remember a bad spring day. I think one of the things I liked best about spring when I was a little girl was getting a new dress, shoes, purse, necklace, hat and gloves for Easter Sunday.

Nowadays, one of my favorite things is the smell of the air as spring starts creeping in. Even when it's snowing, the air knows it won't last. It's still cold, but there's a liveliness in the air.

2. Moving Day! First Home! A yard!

My dad called today. They have a puppy that a cousin and his family abandoned when they moved--a rat terrier named Daisy. They also have a slide they found somewhere, and one of the neighbors just took down his picket fence... and Dad and Mom are bringing all that up to help us get settled in to our new house. Dad's going to build a playhouse, attach the slide to it, a swing on another side, put up the fence to corral the kids and the puppy and build a back porch for us.

So, lots of things to look forward to around here.

Do you like it? It's adorable. I don't think I've seen it that short on you before.

I do like it. It wasn't quite this short when I was a freshman, though it was short; and after I started college, I just stopped cutting it to shorten and only cut to trim. But it hasn't been this short in like six or seven years. It's sort of my kicky pseudo-spring look. I actually got 10 inches or so cut off before I went to Guatemala, 'cause I didn't want to take all that hair with me. It was really heavy.

Y'all granola-chomping Bay people and your vibes... Spring days: We honestly have some lovely ones, although Fall is my favorite, but the spring does feel precious here because it's before our major indoor season so it is with a real sense of making the most of it that we approach the spring...a few years ago, I went to the botanical gardens after a rainstorm and I could smell all the mesquites and palo verdes wet and that was very nice. Looking forward to: Sopranos every week. Yay! Sundays just are *not* the same without whackings and Satriale's Pork Store and stuff.ETA: Most gallant Hecubus, did I just harsh your mellow? Or drop a big chalk outline on it? Cause if so, I'm sorry, bunk.