Sammy likes the Suburbs!

So after the Easter Feaster, Ben and the girls reenacted a scene from This Old House and basically alienated our guests into leaving while they dug up a tree in our backyard to immediately stop the "mulch volcano".  They did not like being questioned about whether this was good for the tree, or what to do to clean it up, tho they may have admitted later to biting off more than they could chew in the middle of Easter Feast.  But, Samantha was again in her element.  She was more than ready to get her trike and go for a walk with me.

Side note:  one benefit of living in New England is that is where This Old House is usually filmed.  So when your husband accidentally digs up the root system of a 100 year old tree, maybe murdering it, maybe not, you can track down the specialists from the exact episode and invite them to your house to assess the damage or benefit done.  Of course this comes with a fee, but hey, our celebrity arborist will be visiting us tomorrow (amidst 4 preschool interviews for Samantha tomorrow too, but that's for another post...hey, should she wear her overalls?).