Tuesday, April 13, 2021

spring updates!

Spring has arrived -- sunshine, longer days, flowering trees -- as well as the return of all sorts of fun activities. Liesl's soccer season continues for a few more weeks and she had her first softball practice on Saturday. We have continued our horseback riding lessons, once a week on Wednesdays. We are slowly getting better and more confident and competent, able to communicate with our horses and convince them to cooperate. This past week we managed to trot 3-4 times around the arena, without stopping, and staying somewhat close to the rail.



Seb is in the thick of spring sports again, which is crazy and busy and wonderful. I missed this so much last year. Last week, he had soccer practice on Monday, track on Tuesday, baseball practice on Wednesday and scrimmage on Thursday, soccer practice on Friday and Saturday. This week there will be more track, with practices Monday and Tuesday, plus baseball games on Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, with a soccer practice thrown in on Friday night. (There's too much overlap right now, and he's going to miss the Thursday track meet and a Saturday soccer practice, but we'll keep figuring out the weekly schedule.) He's exhausted. It's fabulous. 

I went running on Friday afternoon in Forest Park, on the Leif Erikson trail, and Seb (on his mountain bike) and Jasper accompanied me. Seb took some photos and even videotaped me running along the trail. It was fun to see my gait and have some video of the trail I love so much.

And then just some random photos from home --

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