Pumpkin Eats Some Prunes

Little Pumpkin, just under six months old, enjoys train sounds with her first taste of prunes. Everyone loves a "chew chew choo choo"...

April Showers Bring May Flowers

When I was a child, I would join my mom on an annual hunt for the much sought-after May flower.  The May flower in New Hampshire would bloom for a very short period of time, and you had to be saavy to nab it because winter in New England can sure drag out to about nine months of the year or more. Then we have a brief period known as "black fly season", and then it's, yes, you got it, time to put your winter coat and snow suit back on.  If you aren't familiar with these flowers, they are precious little blossoms with an amazingly strong sweet scent.  The time seemed extra special to me as it coincided with my birthday.  We would drive around country roads with our eyes peeled until it became almost a primeval, instinctive reflex to detect May flowers in the banks of country roads out of the farthest reaches of our peripheral vision without a second thought.  Somehow, there are recesses in the human brain designed just so, to commit certain things such as riding a bicycle, breathing and May flower detection with a permanent nature that surpasses all other attempts to file away knowledge. So, I cannot remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, but I was flying around a country bend late that afternoon, and hit the brakes.  I had not truly thought about a May flower in nearly thirty years, but I had to back the car up and put the hazard lights on. I got out quickly, praying no other car came along and saw a crazy woman on this narrow road hunched over the shrubs inviting a tick bite (not to mention leaving her three small babes in the car!). Yes, I had spotted a banking full of the less than 1" blossom, and it had the irresistible smell of May flower. I could not believe it; for I had not been looking at the banking at all, but actually watching the road (imagine that!). 
Small but powerful, precious, and sweet.  These words remind me not just of May flowers but of my three little lambs. I am so excited to share my traditions with them, and to have every day home with them. What a blessing from God.

Sweet Signs of Spring!