One more week...

Mercifully, Jeremy will be done with the first year of his PhD just one week from tomorrow. It's been quite a semester, filled with Hurculean effort on Jeremy's part, but once again it looks like he'll pull through with flying colors. The man is a machine, truly.

Despite a hectic and stressful April, we've worked hard to find time to spend together, even if it just meant meeting at the park for lunch on a rare pleasant afternoon. And thank goodness for Sundays! Even though we often reach Sunday night with mild feelings of dread at the coming week, we also reach the evening feeling content with so many hours spent as a family. Here's to another April gone!

A mid-April snowstorm, as seen from Clara's bedroom:


Clara's latest: twiddling her fingers. What a great time!


Daddy and Clara after one of our picnics at Thorndon Park (you can tell it's a beautiful place when the leaves are out!).


Taking it easy after a long day at church.

"Helping" Daddy write his paper

A brief taste of spring

We can't help but brag about our beautiful weather this weekend: mid-70s, not a cloud in the sky. We'll be back to more "seasonable" weather by Tuesday (in the 50s), but we're loving this while it's here! I just wish the landscape were a bit prettier; we still have very little evidence of seasonal change in Syracuse other than the temperature!

Why we're all a bit SAD in Central New York

We are suffering from a severe dearth of sunshine in Central New York, so I went to our local weather website to see if we'll have any reprieve in the next week or so. Short answer: no. Slightly longer answer: see for yourself in the following excerpt from the forecast...

In reference to an upcoming storm: "Unlike most winter nor’easters, there actually isn’t much cold air in place preceding the storm. Instead, this storm is going to become so strong it will ‘create’ its own cold air. Lots of rising air and heavy precipitation will help in the cooling process. The period of greatest strengthening will come later Sunday into Sunday night and this is when we expect mainly snow. Here in Central New York (including the Syracuse area) we stand to get a foot or more of snow from the storm by mid day Monday. Stay tuned, we will have more on this approaching storm throughout the weekend." (Yes, the emphasis is my own.)

Someone, please make it stop!

Happy Easter!

Crunchy Crunch Clara and Her Organic Adventures!

Clara's grocery cart debut happened last week in the glistening aisles of the West Hartford, Connecticut Whole Foods Market. She was quite taken with the selection of impossibly colorful organic produce. Clara and I were in Hartford to visit with my Dad, who's currently on assignment there with IBM. We may go back if he's still there when the weather turns warm!