green party

Wednesday 03.30.2011
Since we were driving to Arizona on St. Patty's Day (a favorite holiday at our house), we held our celebration a little late. We made it a green party and headed to the park with some friends and family. The kids played on the playground, then we ate some green snacks, made rainbows (which Kapria and Mila weren't really interested in...so we don't have any to show), played a pot of gold game, and ate treats. We had so much fun!

Mila loves blowing bubbles.

family night at ruby's

Trav had to work late at school tonight. So the girls and I ate dinner, quickly cleaned up (which is a record for me), got jammies on, and headed to school. We saw some of the awesome work that Trav is doing right now (I married such a talented man), then headed to Ruby's for some milkshakes.

The girls got to bed late, but it was totally worth it. We had so much fun together. Kapria wanted some "pinklish ice cream" and thankfully Ruby's has delicious strawberry milkshakes that come in pink. She also wanted to be sure and take a picture of the bike that was right by our booth, and how could we not when Mila kept shouting "Bike!" as loud as she could throughout the hour we were there?

I love family night with my girls and my main squeeze.

reading & rocking

Today Mila wanted to sit in the rocking chair and read a story. Then Kapria decided she'd like to sit with her and read to her. And Mila liked that idea too.

Reading another of their favorite books:

mila's got skillz

Mila likes to do everything on her own now, which means she's gotten pretty good at:

putting on her shoes
buckling seatbelts
snapping her bib together
blowing her nose
opening all the bedroom and bathroom doors (curse those handlebar doorknobs)
climbing, climbing, climbing
and today: peeling an orange

You get to see the last one in action (she's pretty proud of herself, and I think she's just so darn cute to watch):

Yay,  Mila!

kind of disappeared (but not)

I know it looks like I kind of disappeared…but I’m coming back soon!

As you may or may not know, I’m still working part time from home. Usually that means I work anywhere between five and ten hours a week (mostly in the morning and during Mila’s naptime/Kapria’s quiet time). But a lot of things have changed at work in the past year, including rapid growth (I think the company tripled in size), new management, and new processes. What does all that mean?

I’ll tell you what: DEADLINES.
Not that we didn’t have them before, but now we have to stick to them. Like really surely.

SO, I’ve been working like mad the past two weeks to make my big deadline that happens to be March 4 (TODAY). Which means I have skipped fun evening events, didn’t even see Parenthood (my weekly dose of TV) this week, haven’t read or blogged or done laundry or returned phone calls – all because I’ve been working first thing in the morning, all during naptime and sometimes beyond if the girls are playing happily, and immediately after the girls go to bed until about midnight or 1am. That five to ten hours a week has turned into twenty to thirty, and it’s killing me. Which is probably why I caught the flu the girls have. Trav’s been working hard at school for his midterms next week, and staying up late in the process, and he caught the bug too.

So we’re working like crazy and we’re all sick and hopefully this craziness will come to an end.
It will. And when it does, I’m so back.

See you then…