We’re halfway through April already! It seems like spring just got here but is in a hurry to pass through. We try to slow time down just a little by stopping to appreciate the good things of the week with Susanne at Living to Tell the Story.
1. Timothy’s birthday was this week, but we celebrated a little early on Sunday with pizza and cake. It’s hard to believe he’s going to be a teenager next year!
2. More time with Tim. He stayed with us Monday afternoon while Mittu had a doctor’s appointment. We spent much of the time sitting in the camper van and chatting. Then I asked Jason and Mittu if they could stay for dinner after the appointment, and they did.
3. Cleaned front porch and back patio. Some little birds built a nest between the front porch light fixture and the wall. The baby birds already hatched and flew away, but they left a mess. So Jim hosed the whole porch off. Then I noticed Monday that a couple of different kinds of vines had entwined themselves in my hydrangea bush next to the back patio. Jim cleaned out the vines and pressure-washed the patio. It’s nice to have the outside areas ready for use again.
4. Mary Poppins. The school associated with our church puts on a play at least once, maybe twice a year. They always invite the church family to the last dress rehearsal for free before the regular performances start. This time it was Mary Poppins, which had to have been quite a challenge. I had wondered if they were going to have her come from the ceiling with her umbrella. They didn’t. 🙂 The kids did a great job. I’ve thought that a musical would be harder to do than just a regular play, but the musicals they’ve done have been some of their best performances. Maybe having a melody to remember the lines by helps.
5. Road paving. Our little street connects to another couple of small streets before reaching a main road. Plus we’re in the county rather than the city. So sometimes our streets are the last to get needed attention. I’ve wondered several times if there was a way to request someone to come out and fix potholes and repave the streets. But this week, workers appeared out of the blue to do some of the preliminary work for paving. I’m not sure how long the process is, but I am so thankful it has started. I look forward to freshly paved, pothole-free roads soon!
And that’s our middle-of-April week. How was yours?
Stray Thoughts 
What a wonderful week of blessings you’ve had!
Happy #12 to Timmy!! WOW he’s a preteen already…..and he’s TALL! Very handsome boy..do the girls all have a crush on him?? I bet at least one does!
We are in the “country” sort of too compared to being in Troy, Albany or Schenectady. We are in a suburb that is smack dab between Saratoga Springs and Albany, our capital and our streets seem to always be last when new pavement is needed although I did notice a huge pothole on the main road into our development was fixed sometime last week. Glad yours are too!
How nice that Jim tidied everything up for you! I’ve been working on our deck and the pollen is everywhere. I give up, I told my husband. I’ll give it a good washdown vome June when the pollen dies down.
HAPPY weekend!
Sounds like a good week. 🙂 I was supposed to attend a writers conference last weekend, but my neck and back pain wouldn’t let me. Tonight and tomorrow, I am scheduled to attend a women’s conference at church. I’m praying the pain will leave. Have a blessed weekend. 🙂
Oh my! Tim is almost a teenager!! Happy Early Birthday to him!
I think it would be fun to have a bird’s nest to where I could see it and watch the progress of eggs turning to little birdies! I can imagine the mess it leaves behind though.
Mary Poppins does indeed sound like a challenging play to present. I always loved watching Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in the movie version. I couldn’t count the number of times I watched it when my son was young. I’m glad you were able to see the dress rehearsal. Very ambitious project!
Have a great weekend. Looking forward to our lunch this coming Tuesday.
Wow how can Timothy be that old??! I feel like when I “got to know you” he was a toddler. What a nice birthday celebration, and how great that you could spend more time with him this week too. I’m glad about your roads. Our subdivision is county rather than city too but recently decided to resurface the roads — to the tune of $800 per homeowner 😦 Oh well, they ought to be pretty nice! Our local high school is doing Mary Poppins next month. I hope to go! I’ll see if ours “flies” 🙂
Belated birthday wished to Timothy. He’s looking very grown up. I’m glad your road is being repaired and it sounds like it’s being done properly. We have so many potholes in our roads but they only ever seem to just get patched which of course doesn’t last very long before they need doing again. I think our council is probably putting off doing any long term repairs right now as the Water company are doing lots of major works in the area so they are constantly digging up the roads so I’m sure it makes sense to wait until all those works are finished but it is very frustrating at times. Mary Poppins does sound a challenge. Glad you enjoyed it. Have a good weekend.
They grow up so fast, don’t they? I think I notice it more with my granddaughter than I did with my own children and it makes me feel old sometimes!
Oh, the kids’ play sounds like tons of fun! And a nice way to give friends and family a perk of a free performance.
In our city, there’s an app to request pothole repair. Glad your streets are getting fixed up beyond potholes.
That’s such a terrific photo of Timothy and his dad. He is one well-loved guy.
Oh, my goodness…Timothy will be a teenager next year? He’s such a handsome young man!
The Mary Poppins production sounds like a lot of fun. It’s amazing how those things work out and I always love a good musical!
Glad to hear that your road is going to be taken care of where the potholes are concerned. This is the time of year that those seem to pop up everywhere. They’ve been working on it in our area also.
Wow Timothy has grown up before our eyes. Happy birthday to him! How sweet to have the nest of baby birds but they do leave messes. Nice of Jim to get it all done. Mary Poppins sounds fun. I’d love to see it as a play. We get a lot of potholes every year because of all the freezing and thawing all winter in Southern Alberta. The city is kept busy all spring fixing them.
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