It's not spring yet

Though I wish it were. We looked at a fun calendar last night to help us figure out when we should plant our garden. It helps to pay attention to frosty nights to get a clue as to when you can plant your plants - last year we lost all of our plants to frost - twice! Thank goodness for mothers-in-law who start far more plants than they need. We had been about to get out the flats and start growing things. Turns out we're about 2 months ahead of our time, too impatient for the weather to turn and be spring... 'sigh'.

On a different note, I have a new favourite quote from a movie we just watched. Maybe I enjoy the quote because I really enjoyed the movie but here it is. If you know what movie I'm talking about without googling it, I'll be impressed.
Here goes: "He was so deadly in fact, that his enemies would go blind from overexposure to pure awesomeness."

It's a little too long for casual use, but I'm going to try to use it in conversations in the near future and see if if catches on...

probably not.

Since this really is an online diary to be read by my kids in 20 years, I'll say that we had a fun time for Katrina's 2nd birthday. She's 2! that feels quite odd. According to the old wive's tales, she'll be 5'2" and 1/4" tall. That is, we measured her height on her second birthday and it was 2'7"and 1/8". If I keep track of growth she could graph her height as it varies with age - and I have few doubts that she'll be as big a geek as me as I plan to nurture those qualities as she ages (yes, another sign of geekiness, I just can't resist my inner nature. Plus, Rachel also has been know to have a propensity for things un-cool).

and now we must go
dinner awaits us all there
food haiku, how bland!