Linda Rokos Watts

Today Stella, Connor and I headed downtown to the Ronald McDonald house. We were there on behalf of UMass Alumni Association , Connors graduate school. We met some wonderful new people and saw some people that we already knew. We prepped lunch and in came all the residence of the 2 nd floor of the Ronald McDonald house. Stella met a little girl named Sierra from California. Sierra has leukemia and her and her family arrived in Colorado a few days ago to start another round of chemo at the Children's Hospital. This will be Sierra's 3rd round. What a brave little girl. Stella and her played almost the whole time we were there which was for about 4 hours. I think Stella made a new pen pal. :) The rest of the afternoon was filled with Home Depot, Big Lots and TJ Maxx trips. We got some new things for the house and came home to make a great dinner and bake cookies. What a great Sunday!

I was expecting to wake up this morning with tons of snow on the ground and to my disappointment nothing. :( Snow aside, we had a kick ass day (although a little cold) Before we get into today, last night Stella and I went to Dave and Busters for a few hour of fun (HOLY SENSORY OVERLOAD) but tons of fun. Connor went out with the boys to a Mammoth lacross game. Being just us the two of us, Stella and I took the opportunity to do a little shopping. We stopped at Ross on the way home and found really a great little Easter dress, and a new skirt for mama. woo hoo ! Back to today. We had a lazy morning then got motivated and headed to the Natural History Museum for a little learning . Stella loves that place. We explored the usual exhibits they have there and then hit Natural Disaster exhibit which I've been wanting to check out since they put it up. It was very interesting and Connor and Stella learned all they could about fault lines. Whew...so much to learn, so little time. Af...