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Have you seen the previews for The Pirate Fairy yet? If you have kids, I’m going to assume you have in fact seen the previews for The Pirate Fairy. More than once. I think we started seeing them before Christmas and I’ve been acutely aware of when the DVD release is (April 1st! Which is now! Now! It’s out now!!!) ever since.

Thanks to #CollectiveBias and their #ProtectPixieHollow campaign the gingers and I picked up our copy at Walmart the day it came out. I am a HERO.

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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.

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).

What crazy week. Thank God the gingers had no idea how crappy it was in the real world and just enjoyed their spring break.

Sunday:

Look! A totally uninteresting part of a 60 year old submarine! You STILL can’t see the interesting parts (where E works on the modern ones).

Running away from their BBQ pork. Obviously they were switched at birth. Both of them.

Reading with Aunt Erin

Monday:

7:30 am in New London, CT

The first time I tore myself away from the news that day the moon was already out

I let the kids stay up for extra cuddles and totally mindless children’s shows

Tuesday:

I spy ye, matey!

Even pirates need a cup of milk sometimes

Passed out with her (old) Easter hat

Wednesday:

Good morning, this is my tongue.

The gingers are doing their best impression of a cheesy movie slow motion run

Reading hat

Meal plan + shopping list = What’s For Dinner? will be back soon

Thursday:

Stroller Strides at the beach EFF YEAH

The view made working out less sucky

Children’s Museum Hat

A B C’S ARE BETTER WHEN THEY ARE AS LOUD AS THIS SIGN

Friday:

Caught red handed!

There are approximately 300 of these on my phone from this day, since the kids got the iDevices while I watched the news…

…and read ALL the Twitters.

Saturday:

And sometimes my view during Stroller Strides is LESS inspiring

Introducing the gingers to Moe’s

Swinging is fun

 And now school vacation week is OVER and I get some Suzanne-time back. I love love love my children more than life itself, but there’s a point during the day where I want to lock them both in a closet. THE WHINING OH THE WHINING. It’s amazing what a difference 5 hours a week makes to my sanity and patience. Oh and P.S. World? Try not to go totally INSANE again next week, ok?

Ahoy Mateys! Pirate Days at Mystic Seaport was pretty crowded – we generally skip the Seaport on days when we won’t have the place to ourselves – and the kids varied between LOVING the pirates and HATING the pirates, but we had a pretty good time.

Checking their treasure maps

On a schooner (that’s a sailboat)

Walking the plank

Digging for treasure

Treasure keeper

On the lookout

We’ve got gold dubloons! Grab ’em, and go!