April 2nd

My dear Heidi,

Already April and you may be home to Norway in May!! So soon, it seems, a school year has gone by. We are still under a whole heap of snow and the boys have been having a lot of fun with a tractor inner tube down the other side of the big field! So now we have had snow cover since October and I for one am ready for spring!

There isn’t even a whisper of coltsfoot or any other spring signs yet, and I can’t recall that we haven’t had flowers for Ds birthday ever! Neither have I hung out the washing, and you know how much I love to do that. However, we do have lovely sunshine every day at the moment...although Pappa would rather have rain to wash the snow away....

I wonder what you did for Easter? Was there extra chocolate?? I see that you are nearly at Bermuda and I am looking forwards to talking to you again. Florida seems a long time ago now. We had a lovely time in England, and in Wales where we stayed with B and S. Tante seems to have enjoyed looking after our garden birds, and tolerated the rest of our animals! W has grown again, and is getting to be strong and grown up. You will really see a difference in him at least!

Now we are just beginning to settle down into everyday life, just for two weeks before we are back to the Uk with W for his teacher conference time. Then Pappa hopes the fields will be ready to start all the spring work. He had already nearly finished this time last year!

All for now, my darling,
Love always, Mamma.