Sunny and Warm in Bristow, VA

Running to See Baba and Granny

Up at 6:00 and Drew's been gone for an hour, as he leaves about 5:00, so he can miss traffic and also work out at Fort Belvoir's Base Gym before work.  What discipline, like Wally...wish I had it.  I sit here sipping my coffee, it's 6:50 and all are still asleep.  I thought Hayden gets up at 6:30 but perhaps it's good she sleeps in.  She has a Girls on the Run gathering this morning at 7:45, a group of girls who get to school early a couple of times a week for a run.  She and Jill had a mother and daughter run over the weekend.  Anyways, Hayden is excited about today's gathering, as instead of running, they are having donuts.

Coming Home After School

The girls have been a riot, both seemingly non stop talkers, telling us all about their lives.  It's like a faucet that's been turned on and Halle is beginning to match Hayden.  Both seem happy in school, like their school work and classmates, and are very busy, usually doing something each day after school, like all kids.  Halle has a soccer game tomorrow, but Hayden's swimming has ended until June 1st when the neighbor hood pool and swim program begins, a big deal around her as neighborhoods compete, and their are teams for all ages, I think.  

It looks like a sunny day; the backyard and porch are hemmed in by green trees, isolating and giving privacy to sitting out on the deck...what a difference from three months ago when the trees were bare, the yard bare and cold.  Tonight we are having Turkish koftes on pita with tomato sauce, Jill's favorite.  

This morning we are planning to go to a great nursery, one that Ellen recommended and Jill loves called Merrifield,  I think.  They have almost anything you could want according to Jill.  It seems so different here from the lake, two to three weeks ahead of Chautauqua in weather I would say if not more.  And it's going to get warm over the next couple of days.