Kids, Crickets & Cactus

 It is the end of March already? When did that happen?? The weather around here certainly feels like it, I'll admit. We had some actual wintery weather a few weeks ago but I think this week we hit the high 90's.  I actually breathed a sigh of relief. We survived another winter, and this one went a lot better on the mental health front in our home than the last four years. I'll take it! Now, the physical health front? This was a brutal winter for colds and other junk. Our whole family caught some virus of misery-- it was one of those that seems to mutate over and over, so you'd have a good day, thinking that finally you were pulling out of it, and then the next day you were slammed again (sometimes with brand new symptoms).  K and I seemed to get hit the worst-- it took us six weeks to pull through it. K's grades show it-- he missed a full two weeks of school at least, and you know what? Whatever, with a big fat "W." As long as he passes all his classes so ...