Pictures of Peter Cottontail Coming Soon!

Song of the Day: Still at the library...shhhh...

Being a homeowner is exhausting. And rewarding. And overwhelming. And quiet. But the quiet thing probably won't last a whole lot longer, thanks to Baby B's imminent arrival. We love our new house, and it's starting to take shape as the boxes slowly disappear, or as I should say, as our friend Lindsay takes the boxes away for her upcoming move. Thanks Linds!

On Sunday after church, we were upstairs admiring our backyard from the office windows when we spied a brown bunny with a white cottontail! He munched and munched on our "grass" (our "grass" isn't really grass, it's more weedy and survival plants than anything, something we'll get to later). Pictures coming Thursday! I also know that we have chipmunks running around and Fitz has encountered a small green lizard out back a few times. Ah, nature. Something we missed out on living on the 14th floor in Winston-Salem.

There are the cute things of nature and of course the not-so-cute things of nature. Fitz must love me a lot. He kills any and every bug I point out without any hesitation or "Why don't you do it?"

Now, I don't want to give the impression that our home is buggy. It's not. Just one or two critters a week thinking they can find a dry home. Well, they thought wrong. My eagle eyes and my dutiful husband make an excellent bug-killing team.

I also don't want to give the impression that we're killing cute bugs (yes, there is such a thing). Crickets, certainly, would get a free pass as do ladybugs. Butterflies would almost be welcome in the house. But these critters are more content outside for now, I suppose. I would love to have a butterfly as a house guest in the winter. Can you imagine the photo-ops possible with Baby B around? "Katherine, this picture of a butterfly on Baby B's nose is amazing! Did you photo-shop this?" "Why, no, we just had a butterfly lodge with us over February." Move over, Anne Geddes.

Fitz had his first day of work yesterday, and it went great! The commute was not nearly as bad as we were thinking it might be, and he really enjoyed seeing old friends and colleagues. Right now, it's a lot of orientation, but I think he's really pleased with starting at this firm. We'll see how it goes!