Saturday, February 14th, 2009. Valentines and statehood day. We have four pallets of cinder block in the driveway, delivered yesterday, to add some serious gardening space to the backyard and a big planter box in the front. We've been looking at some fruit trees and Jack wants to grow bell peppers and chiles. Looks like the weather will hold out for the weekend so we won't be working in the rain.

The kids have a four day weekend with the holiday Monday and teacher in-service yesterday. They have been taking advantage of the weather and play outside most of the day with other kids on the block. We're lucky we have three or four other families with kids the age of ours.

Lisa and I were planning on going out tonight but our normal babysitter hadn't been answering her phone and finally her mom answered and gave us a shock. Our babysitter, who is 17 or 18 I think, has been in the hospital with leukemia! We made some valentines cards from the kids to send her. Lisa found her blog and it looks like she is fighting it off ok but has to stay in the hospital for several more months. Kinda puts things in perspective. Think we'll stay home tonight and just watch a movie.