…please, oh, please don’t go away.
 

this was the view from my front door on saturday.  here in the desert, this is heaven on earth.  we wait all year long for one or two of these days.  when it finally comes, we barely know what to do with ourselves. instead of calling in sick on a nice warm spring day…this is the day us desert dwellers stay home for. 

like so many others, reading and coffee tops my list of rainy day activities. Harry Potter, to be exact. to me, nothing says “rainy day” better than Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

my kids, without a trace of hesitation, ran right through the doorway and out into the glorious rain.  they cheered, laughed, splashed, just soaked it all up. claudia even did a jig…as in an actual irish jig, in fact, i think this was what’s known as a slip jig.  (yes, she’s wearing shorts but their dance shorts so her long shirt, soaked with rain, covered them.)

gabe did what gabe does best…his own thing. he has fun no matter what, when or where.

they even enjoyed some rainy plasma car races. of course, natty has to get in on the action and harrison’s never too busy to cater to her every whim…as he should.

she was dubbed the “inchworm” on her own little car. 
i have a feeling that these images, will have to carry me through many dry days until we see another gloriously rainy day.