Summer tease

Today I turned the page in Tim's homework book to this week instead of last. Because it's March, the pages are lined in pink and sprinkled with photographs of roses. This excited me until I looked out the window and was temporarily blinded by sun-on-snow.

The science room is uncomfortably warm. It's like a forty-seven minute tease.

Watching the snow melt off of bare tree branches has a similar effect: "Hey! Stuff's melting and the sun is shining! Must be spring! Not."

Keith and I spent a good portion of today daydreaming about our upcoming summer. It's neat because it'll be our fourth summer of knowing the other exists, our third (though not consecutive) in consistently close quarters, but our first as Kristin and Keith. So now, instead of quick post-work ice cream dates and trips to the movies that only Victor remembers, we'll... well, we'll still enjoy those things but this time we'll do it as boyfriend and girlfriend. Here's our summertime to-do list thus far:

Theme park
Beach
Camping
Picnic
Film silly movies
Churchville Nature Center
Philadelphia Zoo
Walk downtown
Barbecue
Train adventures
Windows-down driving with music on
Painting Keith's fence
Baseball games
Valley Forge
Roadtrip

Probably most of these are on 90% of the summer to-do lists in the world, but we're still in the everything-is-new-and-exciting phase. Forgive us.

I can't wait to put on a sundress.