Spring is here! I see daylight every morning before lunchtime and everything. There are things growing in the garden and making pretty colours. Days are getting longer.

Of course, the world is full of snot and upset tummies, but that's my job, so that's ok. And I have arranged some semi-regular time off; a friend will babysit the kids in the house while I get out for two hours a week or so. The first one was a bit of a flop as I spent the time feeling like everyone was looking at me going YOU'RE SO LAZY YOU LAYABOUT WHY ARE YOU NOT WORKING, which, you know, is totally what I think when I see other people in town, oh wait.

We have a new food mixer. I dunno why it's called a food mixer, it's clearly a cake mixer. It's small and neat and sits out on the countertop making cakes almost all by itself. Hurrah! I even iced a cake recently, because the cake-making part was so easy that I didn't mind.

The children weren't impressed by the first of February, except that it meant Linnea's Aquila magazine came.

We need to buy a guest bed before Rob goes away in March so that the people coming here to Ailbhesit have somewhere to sleep.