Seven Quick Takes Number 4

1. I had a great play date today.  Or should I say-my boys had a great play date today.  The boys played with other boys from LegoMaster's fantastic Kindergarten class last year.  It was a great group of kids and mothers.  I feel as though I bonded with some of the moms.  We have a bible study together, we sometimes have coffee, we are FB friends, we still have play dates.  I guess I can make friends as an adult, something I thought wouldn't happen after college.

2. I made guacamole yesterday that was killer, at least the fact that I got to eat a huge amount of avocado was killer.  Maybe need to add more salt (?) or... something.  It all started when DadOfAllTrades brought home this HUGE green avocado.  Never saw anything like it.  If I saw it in the store I would have thought it was a mango it was that green.  But it was tasty just like the black avocados I am used to.  Now I need to go buy bigger pants.

3. The guacamole was made with a really strong onion.  I have brushed, flossed, gargled, and I still taste it.  Yikes.

4. The weather has been such that all of the snow is melted (except where the piles used to be plowed into) and thus there is lots of wet ground.  Wet ground + boys on a bike = mud.  And lots of it.  I have never been so grateful for our breezeway as I am today.  And for plastic garbage bags.  And mops.  Well, not the mops but they do help get up muddy footprints faster than my own elbow grease.  Also, clothes washers.  I could not have imagined what life must have been like before mechanized cleaning.  Mothers back then must have had huge biceps.

5.  Did I mention that I ate too much guacamole?

6. It took a total of 5 hours to dismantle and re-build a Lego Technic dump truck with a motor.  LegoMaster made me figure that out today.  That is 5 hours of leaning over a cookie tray filled with pieces and hearing "MOOOOOOM!  I need your help finding a piece!!"

7. This warmer weather does have me longing for the real spring.  I used to be perfectly OK with winter, then I had kids that I had to push, cram, and cajole into snow clothes.  Now I look forward to spring and summer even though I melt in the sun.  But we have been teased with jacket only days, so the next few weeks are going to D.R.A.G. by.  I guess I need to wax the tobagan and commence play dates again.  I am glad I got to open the windows for a few hours to smell the fresh air today.  Ahh, spring, why must thou tempt us so??