Getting in touch with our roots.

Sadi has been sick with the flu for the past five or six days.  This is the second time in a month that she has had it.  Guess the flu shot mutation wasn't quite spot on!  Fortunately, before she got sick and before the weather here turned cold again (the sun peeked out from the clouds for a couple of days, enough to melt all of the snow), we were able to spend some time outside.  The neighbor and her girls were out playing with side-walk chalk and invited Sadi and I to come and join.  It was Sadi's first time side-walk-chalking and she loved it!  She doesn't really draw yet but loved clutching the giant sticks of chalk, one in each hand, and running around.  She's still a little tipsy as she teeters about, especially on the uneven grass, and every time she would fall, refusing to let go of the chalk, she would end up with another stripe across her face, looking like a little indian.  One could say that she looked like a little indian with war paint for the fight that began once it was time to go inside.  As I'm sure all of the moms know, and I now know, kids don't want to be inside on a nice day after being cramped up in the house all winter.    Sadi's lovin-life smile quickly turned into a this-stinks frown!  A few distractions later all was well.