"In which the majesty of buried Denmark did sometimes MARCH"

For today's activity, we are writing a blog about all of our March activities.

Let us explain.

J is here today too, (hi!) and we are 11 days into our March survival plan. 

You need a March survival plan when you live in Rochester and you are both worship directors and you have three boys and those boys have broken multiple, plates, flower pots and vodka bottles when they were trapped inside and then there was finally a warm day when you made them go outside and you found them (literally) throwing mudballs at each other. 

("Boys, this is a terrible idea. Please explain why." Owen, in utter confusion: "...because we might get dirty?")

That's why we came up with a March survival plan to get us through this muddy, too-cold, Lenten month.

We played a duet at a church coffeehouse. We went to Compline at Christ Church downtown. We ordered a new cardigan. (Not for both of us.)

I (R) baked a chocolate mug cake in the kitchen WHILE BLINDFOLDED and it was reasonably edible. (J: You should cook blindfolded more often. Even a blind squirrel finds a mug cake now and then.)

We went to Geva and saw an adaption of Little Women that stopped about 75% of the way through when the story actually ends. We made Felix "King for the Day" on the Feast of St. Felix and then played therapist to Owen for the rest of the day. (Felix, upon learning of his accession, was both delighted and a little shy about wearing the inflatable crown that we'd purchased. But by the end of the day he was wearing it, waving a scepter, and double fisting hot dogs at the dinner table after a Star Wars marathon.)

We had a back rub day and are getting fancy pastries for breakfast tomorrow. We are going to have a Luau (with the furnace cranked to simulate Hawaiian heat), to go bird watching at Braddock Bay, to listen to Rite of Spring on the Vernal Equinox, to visit the Albion Smiths, to conduct kitchen science experiments, and to have lunch at the Old Toad.

There also might be some more adult activities.

We are going to have a pre-Christmas Christmas celebration on 3/25--the Feast of the Annunciation. (Get it? It's 9 months before 12/25.) We will wrap a gift to be opened at Christmas next year and make a small batch of Christmas cookies. But we won't wrap Christmas cookies to be opened next year.

This is all helpful. We are 11 days into March and it only feels like it's been 31 days, so this year is going much better than usual. We might even extend the practice into April and May. Because having fun is fun. And there is precious little of it outside, unless you want to throw mud at each other. (Maybe we'll put that on the April schedule.)