These was the first weekend that the sun made an appearance in what seems like nearly a year. Sunday was a dry day with high winds and clear blue skies. The rest of the weekend was pretty busy, well pretty busy for Sophia. Friday night was the end of Brownies and required nearly a 3 hour awards banquet complete with an ice cream social. Each of the bluebird, brownie and girl scout troops did a skit and then handed out their respective awards. Sophia's troop put on a skit in which the final joke is that the camera man has no film in the camera. The irony was of course that I have no pictures of this because the battery in my camera was dead. Sophia played a valley girl and has been practicing her lines for the last month, which consist of inserting the word "like' between every word of importance in the line and performing the lines with great amounts of hair flipping. She was flawless in her role. Merrick was not feeling well, and considering as much, was very well behaved. We gained a kid that night as one of Sophia's friends came home with us for a sleep over and the girls crashed on cots in the basement in front of Punky Brewster movies surrounded by left-over chocolate Easter rabbits and popcorn. Saturday morning pancakes. We then headed out into the street to explode a couple of bottles of diet Sierra mist by adding Mentos. The kids loved it and we had a nice discussion on gas suitabilities, which the second graders seemed to grasp. Merrick and I worked on cooking up some chicken soup stock while the girls ran around the house doing girl-sleep-over things. Sophia's friend had not even left before another one called to take her to Circ du soleil, when I told Sophia it would be the coolest gymnastics she had ever seen, she said "where is my leotard." She was ok with not performing and seemed to enjoy the event thoroughly. Merrick used the quite house to catch up on much needed sleep and I brewed up a batch of beer. Sunday morning was another birthday party for the oldest kid, but not before Merrick and I found time to make an apple pie and wash all the windows. He was feeling much better and we were able to buy new play sand and seeds. While Sophia was off partying, Merrick and I were able to plant the peas, beans and potatoes in the garden. We are so planted some new morning glories with the hopes they will climb the trees in the back yard. Him and I headed to the park with the spider man kite, that flew so well last year. This year, not so much. Not sure if there was just to much wind of the kite had aged, at either rate it didn't make the return trip home and was left in a crumpled heap in the park garbage can. On our way back to the truck we past a small sign by a tree that identified the tree, in concrete, as a 'kite-eating tree." Had we only known. Moved a couple of hops plants and then played a lot of baseball in the wind. Merrick and I did get the groceries this morning including all the ingredients for how the weekend will end, spiced meats, onions, mushrooms, sauce, and mozzarella cheese for a big homemade pizza
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