Shadows and Mud

This picture is so March.  The sap lines are out, maple trees tapped and pouring their nutrients into blue barrels.  We're checking the lines and the levels daily.  We have mud again!  And, look at those shadows!  The hope of spring is just around the corner now that it's March ... with mud and shadows.

Now you see the reality of this poor mother of teenagers must endure.  Really.  Do I deserve THIS for merely documenting the daily and ordinary?

The pirate dinghy.  We're reading about William Penn ... Hostages on the Nighthawk.  This toy from Grandpa Verlin & Grandma Jane complements our state history lessons perfectly! 

And the birthday boy keeps sneaking away to Playmobil-land!