We’ve been watching the Marble Olympics in my house. At first, I was about as excited about the Marble Olympics as I am about the actual Olympics, which is to say not at all.

But oh man, once you start to get attached to a marble team it’s a whole different experience. I am now a loud and proud supporter of the Raspberry Racers. My youngest is a Bumblebees fan, and my oldest is a fan of the Thunderbolts.

Seriously, we are way more excited about this than we’ve ever been about actual sports. Marbles are just so much more compelling than human athletes.

My kids are in the basement playing Imagine Dragons at top volume and “fighting” each other. This is one of their shared favorite activities and I find it odd because my sister and I definitely never did this. But this is part of the reason I was really hoping our second child would be a boy after our first was a boy. As different as they are, they also have a lot of interests in common. It’s nice. Can you imagine the look on a sister’s face if she had been asked to participate in this basement fighting session?

I drove to our cabin and back today, just to check on things and get a little head start on spring cleaning. It’s a lovely excuse to just listen to my favorite podcast series for several hours, and I managed to clean the pantry and the refrigerator before I had to turn around and come home.