It occured to me some weeks ago that my expectations for exciting activities in March were fairly high. I simply had nothing interesting to write about and I puzzled over this until I realized that March '06 had us settling into a new house and March '05 saw us preparing to put our former house on the market. In March '04 I had a new baby and in March '03 we had just moved into the house we sold in '06. So you can see where a normal March with no new infants and no real estate news may seem a bit blah. So if I'm not post-partum and we're not fixing to move (or recover from moving), you might wonder what I've been up to.

In no particular order, I have been:

1) Falling for Google's April Fool's joke.

2) Sending psychic apologies to Daniel Craig. I have finally seen Casino Royale and I am deeply shamed over my initial, uh, disinclination toward him as Bond. I have been open here about my enthusiasm for the Bond Emeritus but, wow, beach scene, anyone?

3) Sorting out my professional life, with no appreciable result.

4) Bemoaning man's (woman's) inhumanity to man (woman). (Aside: I had no idea that expression is a Robert Burns thing. And they say that blogging isn't educational! O.K. I don't know if anyone actually says that, but you know they think it.)

5) Failing at the execution of a cute Easter project.

6) Waiting for my butter to soften so I can make the Cheddar Olives for tomorrow's egg hunt. Also on the menu: a very traditional spice cake with cream cheese frosting, deviled eggs my way, sundried tomato and garlic mini-tarts, Fromage Fort and some chocolate oaty cookie things I learned from Susie J's indespensible site of baking fabulousness. All of this is great, of course, but seriously, those olives? Try them.

Oh, and I've also watch my son ride his bike without training wheels and swim without some kind of floaty thing or belt and looked on as my daughter wrote her name all by herself for the first time.

I guess it's been a big month after all.