Happy Ash Wednesday, so to speak. Every Lent has been the same for me: I've come out determined to have a holy six weeks, and I'm fading before the ashes wear off my forehead. Human nature is rough.
No full-blown blogging today. Just a few quick things:
My daughter Meg (5) has been determined to sculpt our entire family out of snow. She finally got to it (with a little help from Max (3) and Marie (38)):
Great picture of Tess (22 months):
What's a necessity? All sorts of things, according to the Pew Research Center. From The Atlantic Monthly: "Some of the newly necessary products on the '06 list weren't even on the radar a decade before–high-speed Internet access, for instance, which 29 percent of respondents now can't live without. But other items that made a leap toward widespread indispensability have been on the market for years or decades–dishwashers, for example, as well as microwaves, clothes dryers, and cable television." IPods, cell phones, and gasoline-powered turtleneck sweaters can't be far behind.
