wednesday spring chores

spring is here and today i finally composted the dying plants on my windowsill and replaced them with daffodils that i bought from abingdon deli yesterday. they look pretty and it feels good to have it done, as i've been thinking about it for weeks.

 greg was home today and i dragged him into the kitchen with me to troubleshoot the oven. guess what? the oven decided not to smell like burning plastic after all and i was able to bake a soda bread, which i'm very happy about.

 chanda worked on the computer with math (khan academy) italian (duolingo) and a lesson page for chemistry. she also practiced the violin today and played a piece from last year, which was something else that made me happy today.

 we also listened to eva ibbotson's dragonfly pool with the audible app on my iphone. i don't know how we got started on dragonfly pool when we should be listening to jane austen or sarah orne jewett as part of a literature curriculum, but i love this story and am determined to listen to the end (which should hopefully not take too long).

 we had tea and soda bread while listening . . 

 and chanda did her hair for ballet . . 

 and i worked on my portland pullover (which i would like to do a separate post about).

 i also put up the whitsun mobile . .

  

and changed the nature table from king winter presiding over ice and snow . . 

to spring gnomes and shepherdesses and goose girls watching over their wooly and feathered friends. 

 dinner tonight was leftover shepherd's pie that chanda had made while i was away.

 and then we played clue!

and chanda won which she was very, very happy about (she also made us watch the movie inception about which i complained incessantly for being too violent but whose story was interesting).