Tuesday again?

Man, Tuesday seems to come quickly these days.  I have no idea where the last week went.  I really swear that I try to post on more days than just Tuesday.  But another week snuck by me.  Maybe next week :)

1.  It's been raining like crazy here.  I swear the grass is up to our knees now.  The kids haven't really wanted to go out and play in the rain (it's still a little too cold) but Little J loves to put on the rain boots.  I bought the kids each a pair this year.  Of course Little J wants nothing to do with his.  Heck, I don't even remember what they look like.  But I know they were cute.  Instead, he prefers this:

Every.  Single.  Time.  I don't know what is the big difference between these and his little boy ones are.  The other day I asked him why he wants to wear sissy's shoes and not his own.  He replied, "cute!".  Oh boy.

2.  You know what one of my biggest pet peeves is?  People who still write checks at stores.  Please join us in the 21st century and get yourself a credit or a debit card.  Sorry to any of you that might still use those archaic things.  But I just can't stand it.  It takes 3x as long to complete the transaction.  And yes, I'm the lady behind you who has exactly 2 seconds to get out of the store before one or both of my kids explodes.  And no, my kids discipline issues are not your problem.  But come on already.  And what I love even more is when they don't start to fill out the check until the clerk tells them the total of their merchandise.  Come on.  Did you forget what store you were shopping in?  What date it was?  How to sign your name?  I do believe 2/3rds of a check can be filled out without knowing the total of your merchandise first.  If you must insist on using a check, at least have the courtesy to fill out the blanks you do know in order to speed the process along.  Just a little pet peeve of mine.

3.  Little J has been sleeping and eating better lately.  I'm sure it's a fluke, but I'm going to ride the good wave.  I don't even think I hear a peep out of him in the morning until 6:45 almost 7.  That's pretty much a miracle for him.  Sure better than those 5 a.m. days!

4.  When the sun did manage to shine for about 2 hours this week, we headed outside and had a little tea party.  

5.  Miss C is obsessed with the mailbox and getting mail.  She wants to check the mail just about every hour to see if we got any new letters.  Poor kid.  I keep trying to explain that the mailman only comes once a day.  But she still wants to stalk that little black box anyway.  Last week Nana sent a package and she was over the moon.  She actually played post office with that package all afternoon.  I gave her a roll of tape and I didn't see her for an hour.  She had a great time putting stuff in the box, taping it up, delivering it, opening it up (and acting surprised) and then repeating the whole process.

6.  I can't believe Easter is next weekend.  I haven't even thought about it, much less prepared for it.  Better get crackin!

7.  I guess this should really be renamed 7 on Tuesday.  I'm having a hard time getting to ten.  Here's my 52 weeks pic.  I said last week that I kind of wanted to spice things up a little.  Not that I don't love the standard pic where we are all looking (or at least one of us is), but I wanted to get back to a little humor.  This pic is inspired by that photo Blown Away.  Somedays I feel like this is so true.