happy easter

we're not exactly regular church-goers. i'm a bit of reluctant catholic. but that good ol' catholic guilt always makes an appearance around the holidays and i feel a need to drag everyone off to church.

so i start making arbitrary "we're going to go to church" announcements. sometimes weeks in advance. sometimes days. sometimes i just spring it on the kids on the actual day of the most holy holiday of the year just as they dig into their baskets. my husband says i should work on my timining.

so annabel goes downstairs and announces to lulu

mom says we're going to church.

to which lulu responds

what! that's gonna ruin the whole day.

and then annabel says

lulu! it's a big day. it's the day jesus rose from the dead.

but, it's not like he's a zombie or anything.

hey lulu. i'll give you 5 cents for every pair of socks you match up

fancy stuff

you guys know that mom & dad are having some friends over tonight, right?

yeah. i can tell by all the fancy stuff in the refrigerator.

never give up

coming out of the closet

the other day, i watched lulu wrestle with a big stool and then finally wrangle it into the front hall closet. but between the wrestle and the wrangle, i asked her what she was doing.

she paused a minute and said, i want to see what it's like to spend some time in the closet.

and

maybe

try some things on.

a little while later i had actually forgotten she was even in there until i heard a muffled,

i'm ready to come out of the closet now.

this much she knows is true

i'm driving the girls home from school, and we're going down a nice street with lots of big, pretty houses.

and lulu says "i'm looking at all these houses" ...

and i think she's gonna say something about how big they are or how pretty they are. but she doesn't.

... "i think we must be the only family with a big silver airstream parked next to their house."

yep.

we must be.

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when asked by a friend where he was [during the week we were in florida]:

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don't forget the slinky

several weeks ago, i asked lulu what she had in her backpack, cause it was visibly packed to capacity and ridiculously heavy for an 8 year old.

she said:

a social sudies book
a math book
three library books and they're overdue
two webkinz
that sparkly sweatshirt
some smencils and notebooks

and a slinky.

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