Wonderful weekend weather

This had to be the best weather weekend of the year, so far. Both days were virtually cloudless and warm with a gentle breeze blowing. Spring in southern New Hampshire (or New England for that matter) doesn't get much better than this, let me tell you.

On Saturday, my kids and I went to my parents house. In between loads of laundry, we went to my old elementary school so that they could enjoy the fresh air and play on the playground. Surprisingly, we were the only ones there for most of the hour and a half or so that we were there. I took a whiffle bat and two balls out of my van (the beast) and hit the balls to them fungo-style. They got to run around chasing them and throwing them back to me. I showed M how to hold and swing the bat and stand in the batters' box. I pitched a few balls to him and he still swung awkwardly - but he did manage to hit a few. I tried to show V how to hold the bat too but it was a bit more difficult for me to teach her because she is left-handed and I am not. She ended up getting frustrated with it as she normally does when learning something new.

V and M love the movie Chronicles of Narnia. Knowing that I have the whole series of books in my library and that the recent movie is book two in the series, they asked me to read to them the first book, which is called The Magician's Nephew. Two chapters down and thirteen to go...

Today, after church, we went to my favorite evil empire, Wal-Mart, so I could buy a couple of booster car seats for the kids and some transmission fluid for the beast. So V and M played outside while I did a little bit of work on the beast. I washed the inside of the windows and added some washer fluid and transmission fluid stuff to my engine that is supposed to help stop the leak, which the beast has developed recently. I also cleaned the battery posts, which were all corroded.

Later, the ex called with a voice that sounded like she swallowed a frog or three. She called out of work tonight, sick, which means that she won't be picking up the kids tomorrow morning for school. So I could either bring them to her house tonight or tomorrow morning, my choice. After weighing the options, I decided to bring them back this evening, so that they could sleep a bit later in the morning instead of getting up even earlier than normal so that I could take them to school AND get myself to work at a decent hour in the morning. When we got there, ex looked horrible, obviously worn down from the flu or whatever it is she's got. I just hope V and M don't get it, or give it to me next weekend.

I can't believe tomorrow is May first.... already.