Spring Break!

The Difficult family has been on Spring Break all this week. With an early spring (also called "Where was winter?!") we have had a lot of yard work to do to prepare for planting, as well as other various outside work that didn't get done last year, due to a very laid back summer mentality. (Also called "We're a whole family of sloths!") With Kyle and the girls on vacation, we used this opportunity to catch up.

 On Monday, we weeded and trimmed all of the flower beds and, man, are there a lot. We also burned the branches and other brush that fell over the time-that-was-supposed-to-be-winter, which included our beloved Christmas tree.  Once we were tired of being outside Kyle finished installing and painting the chair rail in our bedroom renovation.

 Tuesday's list of chores was a big one. Not only did Kyle dismantle the girls' club house to turn it into a gardening shed (No tears. The loft Kyle built for them has been outgrown and they were freaked out by the spiders anyway.) but he also took on the major task of cleaning the 4 car garage. A lot of what you see in the pictures was pitched to the curb and was all hauled away by treasure hunters before the trash actually ran the following morning.

Wednesday Kyle put in a flower bed around our mailbox, which is just sitting empty for now, as the weather seems to have finally right-sided itself and we're still under nightly frost warnings. All that garden prep and we can't plant yet. The crown moulding for the bedroom reno was purchased as well before a general "fuggetaboutit" malaise came over the family and we remembered:

Hey! This is our vacation!! Where's the fun?

And then the fun began...