nothing doing

hmmm...

not much going on here, really. Just had the most glorious weekend of cherry blossoms of my 3 years here. Beautiful, sunny, and the trees just loaded down with blooms. We had a picnic in the Aoyama cemetery yesterday, and there were literally flurries of cherry blossom petals blowing through the air. Lovely.

work is work, play is play - Sam is generally being himself these days (he's good at that), and working up the old charm with his Grandma here. I'm giving him a couple of "mental health" days off school this week, as grams is leaving on Sunday - so they can spend some quality AND quantity time together before the weekend.

I guess the big debate in our house right now is how Steve will mark his 40th birthday this summer. He's suggesting skydiving and I'm suggesting... not. Not with a young kid, anyway. What would Sam do without his dad? What would I do without him? I recognize his need to do something momentous, but aren't there any non-life-threatening options?