Lush Green of Spring

Just like that we're in the lush green of spring and have noticed the splendor around us. The lilacs are blooming, the bluebells on the Perkiomen Trail have carpeted the path in purple glory and the perennials are poking their eager heads up through the damp earth.  Seedlings are started inside and vegetables beginning again in the garden.  Spring is so redemptive, reminding us of life, after rest, after death and the newness God provides. 

But goodness, we've been busy.  April was the peak of our homeschool year with so many fun events- a geography dinner including food from Holland and Sweden, end of year piano and ballet recitals, Easter dinner with family and a Seder dinner at home on Good Friday.  Lena lost four teeth! Levi got three! Our chicken Jane Bennet who survived the brutal raccoon massacre is happily recovered from mortal wounds and is being carefully watched over by Theodore Lawrence, our rooster.  We're tired and ready for some rest (we feel like Levi who was found lying on the table) but we see miracles everywhere, when we choose to search for them.  So now we move on to homeschool evaluations, physics projects, Shakespeare plays and a choir concert to tie up our homeschool year and we wait eagerly for the song sparrow eggs to hatch (in the mud kitchen bakery of course).