April felt like the cruelest month this year. Overall, the weather has been pretty lousy ( in northern CA, this means that you have two tantalizing days of warmth, followed by several days of rain and wind). But the weather report indicates that we’re entering a warming trend. And since this is the dawning of May — Mary’s month — the timing could not be better.
A few weeks back, I had some ideas about celebrating May in a big way. I wanted to make the blog a veritable garden of daily offerings about Mary.  Somehow, given the reality of life with a teaching job and two extremely active boys, I think I may have to scale back my expectations. I’m guessing my May postings will end up being more of the same: random thoughts dashed off here and there, some about Mary, some about the juggling act of life in general.
But that’s okay, really. I know that Mary gets the nuttiness that is motherhood. It’s one of the reasons I love her so much. And I hope that my casual verbal meanderings do, in some small way, communicate and celebrate that love — during May and all the rest of the year, too.
