It seems like it has been a long time since we have written. We have finished our foster care classes and are working on becoming licenced. This means installing baby gates, carbon monoxide and smoke detectors, making a rope ladder for upstairs and fixing our upstairs baluster. Dan has done a great job of getting door latches and outlet covers attached. I recently bought a Diaper Genie from Craigslist and we are excited to put it to good use. When I was in Lancaster over spring break, I went to my favorite Goodwill store and got some really cute non-gender blue jean items and baby crib sheets. We hope to find toys at yard sales this summer.

We have started our garden with rows of potatoes, onions and lettuce interspersed with radishes. Dan said that there are still more radish seeds to plant, I will have to find some recipes for the gazillion radishes that sprout. Our little trees from last summer are doing well, with the exception of the ones in the backyard that the deer snack on regularly. The lilacs are growing and hopefully will bloom one day. We have a row of daffodils in the front lawn that someone planted long ago. They were blooming when the big snow hit a few weeks ago and are still blooming, amazing! We have one tulip by the peach tree that is blooming and the forsythia bush was almost all yellow when the snow hit, now it looks kindof pathetic!

We are loving the warm weather and Dan likes to hitch up the old mower and water the plants and trees. I think the only reason he enjoys doing that is so he can ride the mower. He said next week we are going to start mowing. I think he only says this because I am usually the one who does most of it.