Spring Has Sprung… April 3, 2009

Charlie the Bunny

Originally uploaded by Minarae

THis is Charlie @ 7 months doing her impersonation of Little Bunny Foo-Foo.

It is spring! Hooray! Spring cleaning! Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs! Hardboiled Eggs that have been dyed a color never to be found in nature! Cadbury Cream Eggs! Fuzzy Bunny Ears! (We love fuzzy bunny ears when they grace the top of a head so sweet) Oh, and Pagan celebrations of rebirth and fertility! (I will stop short of running around nekkid in the moonlight.) I love spring even with all the sneezes and allergies that plague my house this time of year.

and, in the spirit of Spring and, new beginnings and the associated symbolism of whatnot… this little clan of ours is moving again – starting over if you will. The rent on our teeny 2BR/2BA apartment has been raised from “God Awful” to “That is Freaking Ridiculous” and the burden of making it from paycheck to paycheck with out selling myself on a street corner has become too much. So, we are moving to a smaller place where I can afford the not quite God Awful rent and perhaps I will save myself a few hundred dollars per month. I need that. I really, really do.

With all this change, Mogo gets a few changes of her own. She will be starting a new school in the fall and she is very excited. To be honest, I am a little excited too. She will be attending a brand new school with all the current technology and it even has… wait for it… it has a library – with a librarian even. She could you know, check out books to read and forget to bring them back and I will be responsible for her incessant late fees but COME. ON. NOW… A school MUST have a library. There is some sort of a rule about that isn’t there? The school she is at currently? No library. In fairness, I should say there is a library but since there is no librarian, the children are not allowed to use it and that? Well, that is preposterous to me. So this will be a good change. BTW… have I mentioned that the State of CA can kiss my lily white arse? The budget cuts to San Diego Unified are absolutely unconscionable. Our government really ought to be ashamed of themselves but that is a post for another day.

Keeping with the new beginnings theme, I am attempting to simplify my life. I am downsizing the amount of crap we have. I am throwing out clothes I have not worn in at least a year and I have vowed that I will have clean surfaces and vacuumed carpeting. I will have dishes in the appropriate cupboards and I will fold AND put away my laundry. I will not continue to have a disaster zone for a home.

Ok well, I vow to work hard to have all those things be true. My little bunny eared girl is going to be crawling soon and I really just have to make things safe for her to do that.

I will keep you posted.