Crazy Love Gamble-Style

Happy Easter!    I just love Ava's tender way with her sister.  We took the girls to The Springs yesterday for the annual egg hunt.  Norah toddled around holding her basket not really collecting eggs.  She loved holding the one egg & daddy  slipped a few extras in her basket for good measure.  I just got such a kick out of watching her walk around with that basket.  Could she be cuter??  Next was Ava's age group's turn. It was a mad dash for the eggs. After the hunt they did a drawing for  big baskets of goodies.  There were  6 baskets and as each name was called Ava anxiously waited to hear her name  picked, which it wasn't. Ava didn't seem to mind not winning until they  called Norah's name as the winner,  THAT was the end of the world.   She didn't seem to get that this was basically the  same as her winning.  Norah i...

Nearly every day we drive by The Springs ,  where Grandpa used to live. Ava always points it out to me,  "Look Mom!!  That's The Springs!  Where Grandpa used to live!!"  Then she gets quiet, "But he died.  But we can  still go there and visit the other old people, Linda is going to take me back there some day..." For eight months I have had that same conversation,  over and over. So yesterday Linda was coming for a visit & we  decided that this should be The Day.   "Ava, Linda is coming over today, we are going to go to  The Springs and have lunch" She looks at me like I have completely lost my mind. "Mom, I'm so sorry, you can't go with us." Apparently this was an "Ava & Linda" thing, little  did I know.  She is always looking for ways to  get away from me, which I really can't blame her. So many days I feel the same way : ) But I did want to go....