This is the week in photos that corresponds to the terrible horrible week of solo parenting in 100-degree weather, so there are a lot of photos of us doing…nothing. It was a miracle everyone survived.

Sunday:

Private lake

Big kid swinging

I let him stay in my bed

Monday:

We watched so much Pokemon

RIDICULOUS

A strong selfie game

Tuesday:

The cat loves my belly

More private lake time

Digging for treasure

Wednesday:

LASHES

Just what she needed: another adorable bathing suit!

OK I guess

Thursday:

Lake baby

More naps. NOT COMPLAINING.

SO GOOD LOBSTER ROLL

Friday:

Shopping day

New kicks

Still sleeping in my bed, now with his own pillow and covers

Saturday:

Don’t worry, this deer survived the wash

SO HAPPY to be annoying the crap out of me

Linc loves my bump

So far this week is 100% more relaxing than last week, especially because I HAVE A NEW VAN. We just won’t talk about how my iPhone isn’t really working since the kids dropped it while playing Pokemon. It’s fine. I’ll be fine. The camera is ok, so at least my blogging won’t suffer. That’s the important part.

Forgive me, it was party week, so I am late. Basically everything between now and August will be late, although my only real excuse will be “pregnant” or “giving birth”. Those actually sound like better excuses than a 5 year old’s birthday though.

Sunday:

Random 6 am barfing = morning bath

Clearly she felt much better a few hours later

This is not actually very good, but that did not stop me from eating it with a spoon

Monday:

I HATE YOU SNOW

TA-DA!

Helping

Tuesday:

Pirate Fairy Day. It was really all we did.

Dancing to the pirate song

Flip-flop weather!!

Wednesday:

She accessorized.

Swim class is their favorite

Helping me make frosting is THE BEST THING EVAAAAAR

Thursday:

We had houseguest coming, so I cleaned while the kids had a lazy day.

Very, very lazy.

Friday:

I found these two like this.

Bump.

Helping Bumpa clean our yard

Saturday:

AHOY! BIRTHDAY AHEAD!!

Front porch party mess

Evan got TWO of these rockets for his birthday and they are both his favorite. Highly recommend for any kid.

Even for us, that week involved a lot of dress up. My laundry pile is sort of insane right now, but I HAVE TO FINISH MY TAXES. I HAVE TO. RIGHT NOW. NOTHING ELSE IS BEING DONE UNTIL I FINISH THEM.

I figure if I type that enough times I might actually do it. Anyone want to barter tax prep services for a photo shoot next year? Or you can come punch me repeatedly in the face. Or how about a kid? I will give you this next baby if you agree to do my taxes forever. (Not really, but it’s tempting. I’m really, really overwhelmed.)

p.s. It is supposed to be 65 degrees tomorrow and I will probably take the kids to the beach. Because that’s how we roll in New England.

p.p.s. My birthday is Thursday. I’m getting my teeth cleaned.

As of RIGHT NOW if someone knocked on the door I wouldn’t be ashamed to let them come in. All the general living areas of the house are in fairly decent shape with no visible disgusting messes. Except the basement. The basement is full of water.  Hopefully it stops raining before the whole house floats away and no one gets to see my nice clean kitchen.

Sunday:

Aquarium day

Mr. Ray says hi

Peas in a pod enamored with technology

Monday:

Despite the face, she was very excited about the flower

Scanned and Artkived 6 months of kids art so I could THROW IT AWAY

Hugging the bump

Tuesday:

I got an emissions inspection, he built a castle

Comparing our big bellies

Wednesday:

Happy to be in a second session of swimming

Pretending it’s spring

Drive-thru dinner makes me happy too

Thursday:

Hats

Getting their namaste on

Thank you Aunt Sara! Unicorn is their new favorite!

Friday:

ALMOST warm enough to be outside

Helping Brutus be brave

All of us doing things we love: Caroline is napping, Evan is building, I am watching HGTV

Saturday:

“Reading” me the info about her first dance recital!

Father-son bonding over blowing shit up

I spent 2 hours last night trying to pick a font for a new header. You probably didn’t even notice.

This is going to be a crazy week leading up to Evan’s birthday party on Saturday (FIVE! FIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!) but I’m excited. The weatherman is promising it will warm up, there are crocuses blooming in my yard, and my house looks like it’s been attacked by pirates. In a good way. They left a lot of hats.

I also have big plans to get my eyebrows done. I live a very exciting life.

I was also accepted to promotion for that new Disney Pirate Fairy movie that means I HAVE to go buy it the day it comes out and the kids HAVE to watch it. Considering they both scream their heads off every time the preview comes on it shouldn’t be a hardship. Like my friend Sara said, Disney basically buys ad space on the inside of parents’ eyelids, but in this case they’re also paying me to make my kids wicked happy. Blogging is still cool, even if I’m not super good at it anymore.