Why, hello March. I am so over February...and January...and December...and November...and winter. Thank you for finally arriving and (hopefully) bringing spring!

Soon we'll have lots of thunderstorms, the air will get warm and smell of dirt, flowers will bloom, birds will be chirping (even more)...you are very welcome here.

And after spring comes summer...which means summer vacation. Ahh...I can't wait.

-carlotta

One of my favorite times of year is when Girl Scout cookies are being sold. Mmm...

My personal favorite are Samoas (In some parts I think they're now called Caramel Delights)...all that chocolate, caramel, coconut goodness in neat little cookies (Cookies that are hard to stop at one! I said that and my mom looked alarmed when I took five cookies - but they were only for the photograph above :)). 

I'm ordering some more boxes from the extras so I can savor the cookies a little longer. It makes me sad that they don't have them in stores...but maybe it's for the better, as my wallet stays happier and my health stays better! :)

What is your favorite Girl Scout cookie?

-carlotta

PS I feel guilty now, as I just remembered the no-sugar-for-a-week challenge that Ashley is doing...

The weather warmed up again today...and that meant jumping on the trampoline.

They started off with some...uh...rather interesting poses that involved flapping their arms while keeping your eyes closed and giving each other bunny ears. I got really confused trying to figure out how that was supposed to work...

Lilly was a total camera hog. Seriously. She always made sure she was right in front of the camera, blocking my view of the others...

There was crazy hair...

(she isn't crying, in case you were wondering...)

...some singing and dancing...

...and a star guitar player.

Even after having to get up at 7am to babysit, I'd say it was a good day (today also involved some shopping at Target, which gave it "extra points" :)). 

How was your day?

-carlotta 

My brother had to write a book report for school...he really got into it...and he was changing every other word with Word's thesaurus tool...I got a kick out of reading all the long (and "educated" as he would say) words.

"Snow Treasure, written by Marie McSwigan 

Book Report

Once in 1942 when Norway was under Nazi control a group of children tried to save the gold belonging to the town of Riswyk. They used their toboggans to transfer it to a ship that was bound for America. The reader is kept in suspense as they wonder “Will the children be able to succeed bringing the gold to the ship?”

I like this book because it’s thrilling. The children are so valiant! They walk right next to the Nazis with thousands of dollars on their toboggans! And the Nazis don’t even know that they have gold on their sleds.

The message is that even children can overcome an atrocious monster just like in the story of David and Goliath in the Bible (1 Samuel 17:1). David is like the children who were still diminutive but had reliance and overcame the foe. The Nazis are like Goliath who thought he could annihilate David. I thought it was just a very, very attractive book."

"I thought it was just a very, very attractive book." really made me laugh...

I love you, J. :)

-carlotta