1. Grow a grass dish garden and make felted bunnies and gnomes. It’s been way crafty around here. Lucas and I have both been needle felting, inspired by springtime, my storytelling class, and a volume of stories called The Tales of Tiptoes Lightly.
2. Pose for
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   ‘s camera on a chilly morning in her daddy’s backyard. Good thing he’s a such a good sport. He even held the reflector for us when Madame Photographer needed more light. It was great fun and I’m feeling exhilarated and empowered by it, and also bashful. I did what?

3. Finish our Estate Planning, complete with the Wilson Family Trust, Durable Power of Attorney, Executor, Conservator, etc., and sign all the documents. We started this project last August. Seven months later, we are finally finished. It was so hard contemplating the possible icky futures that we used a lot of the intervening time to avoid doing the work. But it’s finished now and I’m relieved. My getting sick last year threw a lot of things into perspective. This is one of those things where if you confront the Boogeyman head-on, he will not be able to send you nightmares. I hope.
4. Practice playing Easter Bunny and hiding and finding eggs. Lucas has been playing bunny a lot lately. He makes paper ears on a paper headband and hops around the house. Although Ian loathes that I save crap like this, I have a stash of plastic eggs from previous years, and I pulled them out for the boys to play with. And although the Easter Bunny has an annoying, squeaky voice, I am pleased to see Lucas playing woodland creatures rather than superhero who destroys the bad guy by cutting off his head and spraying acid on his body. So I’m cultivating the whole bunny/mouse/chipmunk thing for all it’s worth. And damn it, if that means I have to save crappy plastic eggs and pretend to be Mommy bunny/mouse/chipmunk, then so be it and blessed be.
5. Enjoy the first tulip blooms and the trees leafing out in our yard. I’ve taken a few pictures outside around our yard lately and I hope to post them soon. It’s not like we live in an opressive wintery freeze for many months of the year, but nevertheless, seeing signs of spring on plants that I personally put in the ground is very gratifying. Our weeping cherry is full of lovely pink blossom clusters now. Today I noticed the very first daylily of the loooong daylily season. Yesterday, our first tulip bloom opened to a fiery red center. Today a handful of blooms are lighting up the front yard. A neighbor on a nearby street has a million of them in every color and I hope to go gawk at them this weekend.
6. Take naps with Asher (one for me yesterday, one for Ian today). I was so sleepy yesterday afternoon that when I put Asher down for a nap, I just followed him down the road to Slumberland. Sometimes afternoon naps feel so lovely, especially the falling asleep part. It helps to have a contented baby nursing his way to oblivion by your side. Ian had  today off, and he enjoyed a very rare nap with Asher too—without the nursing part.
7. Have a great lunch with old friends and a new one. Met with
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     and 

   dakini_grl

    and a really talented entrepreneur friend of FCL’s. She was fun and gracious and in many ways has a career I’d love to have. I hope that connection grows and is beneficial for all of us. For the first time, I revealed my new business venture out loud. It was scary and I fear I carried on too long, but it felt good to hear some feedback and encouragement. More about that another time.

8. Ride bikes (one adult and one child per bike, please) to a nearby sushi restaurant for dinner. No, we don’t live in midtown, but there are a handful of local Fair Oaks businesses we can ride bikes to now that Asher goes into the toddler seat on the back of my new VERY PINK bike and Lucas rides behind Ian’s bike on the tagalong. (Whenever there’s any traffic, he goes on the tagalong instead of on his own bike.) This evening we rode to Masa Sushi. The food was good and it felt like such a treat not to drive a car to get there and home again! I hope we’ll do a lot more of that thing as the weather warms up.
9. Read stories like The Country Bunny and the Golden Shoes and The Golden Egg. I am a children’s book fanatic. I collect books for my kids and for me. I can justify my obsession when a holiday comes around, like Easter, and I can go to the bookshelf to find the perfect story to read. I had The Country Bunny and the Golden Shoes when I was a girl and I’ve always loved it. It’s one of the first feminist children’s books ever written. They say a mommy bunny can’t possibly do the job of the Easter Bunny, but in fact, she is amply qualified: for she is kind, clever, wise, swift—she has to be to raise her 21 bunny children!
10. Have some mind-blowing “couple time.” Thank you, love. Enough said. 

On the agenda for tomorrow: 
Dye Easter eggs with onion skins, purple cabbage, turmeric, beet juice, and blueberries for the first time. Visit my friend J and her NEW TWIN BABY BOYS!