I've been thinking about...

Just spent an hour on the phone with Lands End trying to wade through their sizes and styles to find a couple swimsuits in petite. It was like they had pre-determined the 4 swimsuits that would work together for petites, nevermind the 100 other styles didn't come in petite, let alone my size. Yet, they have the best option out there that I've found thus far--last year, April was too late and they had almost nothing left. I swear, if I had the knowledge to start a petite clothing line, I would. Maybe I should just make my own clothes. Ha!

Had Ed's preschool parent-teacher conference today. Unlike in the fall, they didn't have much to report. They showed us how he writes his name, which he's been doing for about a year and said that he is interacting a lot more with his peers. One of his best buds is moving with her military family to Japan, we're really sad and I know he doesn't know yet to be sad. She's actually leaving before the end of the school year. They were supposed to be here a couple years and instead will be in Japan a couple years.

Had 3 other families over while Den was out of town on Friday night for lenten cheese pizza. There were 16 people total and a great time was had. I think Den was a little jealous when he called home in the middle and there was a lot of hootin' and hollerin' going on in the background. The kids were among the youngest and it was kind of fun to have a bunch of mini-mommies.

This first picture was when Den was mixing the blue icing for Ed's cake and the second is from the hat they made at preschool for President's Day. Picture by dad.

Den got back on Sat. after 6 days out west. He was not looking forward to the trip, but in the end rather enjoyed the class and we did fine back home. I can't decide which I want more: a trip somewhere or a swingset in the backyard for the kids. It's killing me.

Den is my hero--he fixed my outlook. I had been on the trail, but he completed the search to find the fix. Yay. I promptly deleted 20,000 emails (no I don't have extra zeros in there). I am on several parenting listserves and while I thought I had set the folders to delete automatically each month, apparently something was not set right as I had emails that were a year (or more old). Outlook seems to be much happier, but I still have a long way to go.

The kids are (for the most part), getting along really well. Course that just jinxed the whole thing, but seriously, they are really cute together, as evidenced by the picture below.