March 16, 2007 | Mama Smith

fooled

Yesterday morning I was wearing a skirt and flip-flops as Brighton, Levi and I explored the woods near our house. Building “houses” with sticks and rocks, enjoying the warm breeze and beautiful sunshine. I was gullible enough to believe that maybe, just maybe, spring had arrived. Ha.

I now sit here staring out the window at a vast expanse of white. Yes, snow has arrived. Or rather some sort of ice/snow mix that began as soft rain this morning and quickly turned hard and white, covering the roads, sidewalks and the hopeful little crocuses that had just been lured out of the ground by the warm weather over these past few days.

I have to be honest, I couldn’t be more annoyed.

All I see when I look outside is days of waiting for the sludgy parks to dry up again, the neighbors to clear their sidewalk enough to pass through with a stroller, the grass to emerge in our side yard again, and more cooped up days inside. I’m wearing my “glass is most definitely half empty right now” glasses, can you tell?

I wish I had some pictures to liven up this whiny post, but we’ve been too busy romping around outside to drag along the camera. So now YOU have something to look forward to…this nasty weather offering a few days worth of creative indoor pictures to share. We’ll get right on that.

I’m still trying to get used to this new “redesign”, even though I didn’t want a redesign because, as my close friends and family know, I hate change. And it’s taking me ages to go back through all my posts to categorize them. But I’m liking some of the new features, especially having a flickr spot to drop my photos instead of the old more difficult to maintain Photos page. And I’m definitely enjoying not having a boring static links page and this new rolling links idea.

What are your thoughts? Things you like? Things you miss? I’d really love to hear (as I’m sure Matthew would as well…psst, tell him to change that goofy picture of Levi which he keeps swearing he’s going to get around to one of these days!). If you wouldn’t mind sharing, one random question I have is what size screen are you all using? Because I miss the grey being on both sides instead of just the right side, but designing for that kind of depends on what size screen majority of my readers are using. So you multitude of lurkers you, this is your time to share!

Hope you all are staying warm and cozy and a little more chipper than myself with this schizophrenic weather.