What a month!

We were BUSY. Workshops, birthdays, and adventures galore.

We kicked off the month celebrating Hina’s 10th birthday.

How she managed to survive this long with her moodiness and health issues, I’ll never know. But she’d never let you guess she is now in double digits.

We then hit both Home Depot and Lowes for workshops on the same day. Lowes really let us down this time. We signed up online for the noon spot, but when we got there (at 12), they were packing up and wouldn’t let Little Man do the project there. He was still able to take it home to do, but definitely not thrilled about that location. We’ll absolutely go back to our usual location next month.

The following weekend was Easter, and boy, was it packed!

Friday was a Mommy and Little Man solo journey to Nashville. We went back to Cheekwood (like we did in the fall) for their Great Spring Art Hop event. There were several egg hunts for various ages, a painted bunny scavenger hunt through the gardens, and themed crafts.

We also explored a few gardens we missed last fall.

The Mister didn’t get Good Friday off like he normally does, so he had to miss out on the garden egg hunt fun.

We could have gone that Saturday, but we had already signed up for a sensory bin make-and-take at Sunny Day Studios in Clarksville for that afternoon.

Little Man was all about the bin and exploring the new area. It’s brand new (only been open for a few months), so there was a lot to check out.

Easter was spent at home this year. Thankfully, the weather was beautiful, so our backyard egg hunt was much more successful.

We dyed our own eggs.

The Easter Bunny spoiled Little Man (with help from Nana).

Finding eggs was way more fruitful in the backyard.

While I completely forgot to get a photo of how pretty the dyed eggs were, they still made great deviled eggs.

Monday brought my 35th birthday. We went to eat at Outback and the Mister brought home a cake.

We had some not so pleasant happenings that week as well. I started to smell something weird in the laundry room. I found the smell was coming from the dryer. The Mister took the whole dryer apart and couldn’t find the source. So, we cleaned out the vent (which needed to be done anyway) and found a whole family of dead chipmunks. It was so gross. We ended up cleaning vent out and replacing the outside cover as the old one had gotten bent and stuck open. I’m just glad we found the problem before something worse (like a snake) came in!

The following weekend was a bit of a breather, thankfully. But it was short-lived; we were right back at it on the 22nd.

Earth Day was spent at Sunny Day Studios again. This time, it was just Little Man and me. He made another take-home bin, painted a rock for their rock garden, potted a succulent to bring home, and did some playing with potions and in the newly finished outdoor area. There were a lot more kids this time, and unfortunately, not all of them were very nice.

We finished off the month with new tires for the Dart, lots of yard work, and the unit potluck. We also went to see the puppies at Nashville Humane. We especially loved Athena. She was hard to say goodbye to.

May will see a drop in activities, methinks. Apart from our wedding anniversary (10 years, holy cow!) and Memorial Day weekend (which will hopefully be long), nothing is really set in stone. And even then, we have no plans whatsoever for either day/weekend.

Free Comic Book Day is May 6 and the usual DIY workshops will keep us a little bit busy here and there. We’ll have to see how it shakes out.

Until then,

Cheers!