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.

I did more stuff this week than I’ve done in ages. I might die. Luckily (hahahahahahahaha NO NOT LUCKILY) we’re supposed to have a snowstorm this week so we’ll probably get a weather-related vacation in the middle of the week. I would rather we have gorgeous, amazing weather and I just take a day off to lie on the couch and let my hips recover, but it looks like instead we’ll be trapped in an eternal winter. I blame Frozen.

Sunday:

This is all we did Sunday. Alllllll day.

Monday:

REALLY EXCITED ABOUT SOMETHING

Yo ho let’s go

Father-son computer game bonding. Or something.

Tuesday:

Solo shopping with a coffee is like vacation.

Now they can stop asking when it will come!!

Hello baby face

Wednesday:

The last patch of snow (until #$%&*@# Tuesday)

Caroline is wearing a bathing suit, I don’t let her go out without pants on a regular basis.

Where did Evan go????

Thursday:

It’s spring, time for butterflies! (says Caroline)

I made the closet a fort, which means I’m her hero

Dr. Seuss & jammies night at Evan’s school

Friday:

If he REALLY minded, he would just move

360 freeze frame camera fun

Evan’s favorite part of the science center

Saturday:

Newborn session!

Watching Frozen extras and editing photos. My Saturdays are EXCITING.

I am going to actually write works and things on my blog this week. Stay tuned for much excitement.

I spent 3 hours and $900 on my minivan today, and if anyone had ever told me that would be my life 10 years ago I would have died.

Sunday:

Chalk markers changed my life.

She will literally sleep on any flat surface.

Bunk bed building buddies

Monday:

Good bye, see ya, I’m done here.

Matching princesses

My goal for Monday was to clean the new shared room. This was after THREE HOURS. We own too. Much. Stuff.

Tuesday:

Everyday I’m scooterin’

SO CLOSE TO SPRING. WE WERE SO CLOSE.

Peek-a-boo princess

Wednesday:

Hugging a beach ball

Hugging a different beach ball

Learning to dive is his MISSION IN LIFE

Thursday:

Go $#%& yourself, Winter

Birthday balloon update: Still mostly floating after 3 months.

Thursdays are exhausting

Friday:

Dress up and glitter slime playdate

Showing off the muscles he grew when he ate his whole sandwich

Saturday:

Warm up moves

She thinks having a blue tongue is the most AMAZING thing ever

Handsome

ONCE nice day this week and I’m ruined. I’ve lost my ability to handle the cold at all. I’m like a snake that shed its winter skin and all I can do is think about how nice and warm I would be if I lived in Florida or California or Hawaii.

Although right now I will accept 2 more weeks of cold as long as we can have beautiful, warm, sunny weather for Evan’s 5th birthday. The world of “these are your friends because I like their moms” and “these are my friends because I go to school with them” collided, and my guest list is a little out of control. Mostly that’s exciting, since this might be the first party Evan REALLY remembers and it’s going to be super fun. But also having all those people trapped in my house instead of using the porch/patio is going to be…well, horrible. It would be horrible.

Fingers crossed.

It appears these are the only posts I have in me right now. It’s a weird combination of being too busy and not at all busy. I spend a lot of time on my computer doing other things (photo editing, writing Glee recaps or trashy gossip stories for my new gigs, Facebook chatting, refreshing Facebook to make sure I haven’t missed any good Buzzfeed quizes) but none of that is interesting enough to blog about.

I’m also deep in pirate party planning mode for Evan’s birthday. I remember thinking I was a crazy person when I started planning his first birthday party (Circus party! Still one of my favorites) in January, but I think starting in March is even more crazy. So much to do in so little time!

Sunday:

It was so much easier to say “No, I’ll just have a salad” before they put a Five Guys in my town.

BEST KIND. Anyone who disagrees is just wrong.

Can I get 3 million shares on my blog post for taking this? No?

Monday:

Cute from the back…

…cute from the front.

Editing isn’t so bad when this is the baby you stare at for hours.

Tuesday:

Refusing to go to school until they see Idina & The Roots sing Let It Go

Basically heaven for a 3 year old

Yo ho let’s go!

Wednesday:

Somehow climbing in the snow is STILL fun for them

I am extremely jealous of their swim classes

I was conned into buying toddler Elsa because Caroline now recognizes “Sale” signs at Target

Thursday:

Why 3 year olds should not use mascara

Jaunty!

It’s crazy hair day every day in our house

Friday:

More pirates! it’s an invasion!

A rare look at the room I was attempting to “take back” from the children. It’s not going so well.

He insists on “swimming” in the bath now.

Saturday:

The friendliest koi fish ever

Tiny hipster children play cornhole at a brewery in an old mill. I can’t even.

That’s the cupcake happy dance

I am the only parent in the world who doesn’t actually hate springing forward. We don’t have anywhere to be until this afternoon, which means I got to sleep in even if the kids got up to play. Plus they’ve both been falling asleep on the couch at 6 pm, so I don’t think bedtime will be too hard. Basically, I am the worst.

I am sure I will pay for it later this week when they get up at 5:30 and paint my dining room table (again).

I think it snowed again this week. I mean, it probably did. It never does anything else.

Sunday:

He’s a pro at iPading

This is basically every Sunday around here

Monday:

Dinosaur House

Sleeping dolls in a box are kind of creepy

I have this photo from every day. Caroline requests it.

Tuesday:

Let it go, let it go!

Snow in the house because I am the coolest mom

Naps for everyone!

Wednesday:

BACK TO SCHOOL

I hate youuuuuuuuuuu

She’s finally getting real hair instead of baby hair

Face in the water!

Thursday:

She insisted on helping

Singing at the school potluck

Twins

Friday:

Someone put herself down for a nap at 11 am

The dog hates thunderstorms, so she was helping him not be scared

DuckTales WOO OOO

Saturday:

So much chowder at the Chowder Cook Off (that’s clam/corn/sweet potato and spicy seafood)

SUPER EXCITED to be outside WITHOUT A COOOOOOAT

E’s new favorite place

It was 50 degrees this weekend and I got an adequate amount of vitamin D for the first time in months. Unfortunately all the out-and-about on Saturday was a lot on my poor pregnant hips so Sunday I just lay on the couch. Well, after laundry and cleaning and a baby’s 6 months mini-session. But BESIDES that, I took a really nice nap.

My 20 week ultrasound is Monday afternoon. It will be a test of my willpower if I can still report on Tuesday morning that we don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl. Considering how my willpower fared against 20 different kinds of chowder on Saturday (very poorly) I’m not totally hopeful.