the rest of April...

Spring has almost turned to summer. The boys have less than three weeks left of school, the youngest finishing the grade level with which I feel most familiar, meaning I can't help much from here on out. They are growing so fast.

Tolliver's muscle car was not only the fastest in his 8th grade class but the fastest in school history. The tiny plastic arm might've been a harbinger had we been more attuned. Every once in awhile time shrinks and attention sharpens...

We've celebrated birthdays and superior ratings, NHS induction and another Bobcat Revue, tennis wins and a sweet prom-posal. There is never not music. We've had time to sit on the porch and watch the cat nap in a patch of sun, birds build and scamper, buds begin to open - sometimes even staying long enough for something to reveal itself.