The joy of less

That's the book I've been reading and I'm loving it. I read some conference talk or maybe it was at a church meeting or something... I can't remember... But the phrase was "knowledge with out action is just education."  I'm better at reading about something than actually doing it. Like crafts or recipes or cleaning. I've been trying to make that phrase my temporary mantra (until it becomes more of a habit) and it's going well. I've been reading the joy of less (far better than the life hanging magic of tidying up) and am loving it. It is motivating and inspiring and it just makes sense, even to my hoarding heart. I am really good at organizing, but too frequently, I've been reaching points of exhaustion because there is just so much stuff. Or it's stuff I don't like that I'm always having to look at and feel guilty that I don't use. Or it's stuff that just can't be organized (because it serves no purpose and has no reason to be in my home) and even I can't come up with an organized solution for it. This book is really helping. It's helped me realize that I'm more of a minimalist than I would have previously thought (I like my home to be pretty minimal, even if I end up stashing all of the junk and extras in the basement) and that I just need to build on that. I'm barely scratching the surface but I really like where it's going. 

Also, I'm still not sure where it came from, but I still have a lot of motivation and energy to my days... Even when I wake up tired or with a headache. I am so amazingly thankful for this. My time is spent being euphoric about it and also being scared that it is only temporary. Part of me wonders if it is connected to my lack of facebook though. I still haven't been on facebook. I think it's been over six weeks. I'm still scared of relapsing but I can't deny how much happier I am to be done of it. My thoughts are focused and positive. I feel better about myself and those around me. I feel soooo much more in control of my life. I've been reading so much more (even if a lot of it is just articles online) and I love it. When I sit down, I don't scroll though people's posts and political crap, I think of anything... ANYTHING!... And then I can google it. Random facts, a better way to do something I've been struggling with, and a lot of inspirational stories and tips on minimalism. Not like I'm ever really going to be a minimalist, but I'm all for applying those principles to my own life to achieve more focus and simplicity. I've had more patience with my kids (goodness knows I still need a ton more though) and more motivation to be a better wife and mother. It's been about ten days since I started providing "enough food" (that's how I phrase it for me) for my family and it has reduced a tremendous amount of guilt from my everyday life. I have so much enthusiasm for becoming the person I want to be. I don't know how long this will last (I wish forever... HA) and I'm worried it'll derail while I'm getting ready for my trip to Georgia next month and while I'm gone and when I'm getting home and recovering and then again ten days later when I take a little trip with my honey. And then it'll be summer and then lots more traveling. So, I'm just going as best I can right now. 

I have no social media connections right now (I have accounts with facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest but don't use them) so this blog is the closest I have to that... Which is likely why it just hasn't really been on my mind lately. But I just wanted to pop in and say that life has been really really really really good. I have been super happy. Abigail and Brady are doing great. Elizabeth is getting teeth and I'm working to wean her from the swaddle (tonight she feel asleep for the first time with one arm out... And no binky or crying involved!). Honey has been spending more time at home and it has been so nice to have him around more. 

My heart is full of gratitude. I am just so thankful. 

Inspiring reading

I've been spending too much time lately reading about minimalism. I'm definitely a wannabe minimalist. My main problem is that I'm kind of a hoarder. I hate throwing stuff away, but insecurities (and the hassle of it all) prevent me from giving stuff away or finding a new home for it. But lately, I've really been focusing a lot of time on trying to figure out a way that I can more in a more simple direction.  It's my hyper focus at the moment. And I'm not sure if it's that or just coincidence, but I've had a lot more days of motivation  than I usually do. Those days always feel so good. 

I woke up and showered before the kids got ready. Bonus points that I dressed all of us in green (Abigail even had a gold bow) and gave Abigail a green snack (snap pea crisps). Last night I even put gold glitter in her leprechaun trap and this morning she was a little bit disappointed not to catch one, but pretty excited that he left a trail of gold dust. I'm not a super fun Pinterest mom, but I am trying to make little things a bit more fun (like how Abigail would have already had that green snack anyway). I also made it a point later that they were eating a green pear and using green spoons for their spaghetti. They also got green Easter egg cups, and when they weren't looking, I put a bit of green soap (I was cleaning out the reminder of the dish soap bottle and put it in the foaming dispenser) in the downstairs bathroom and Abigail thought it was so sneaky that the leprechaun turned our soap green but he wasn't that tricky because we know that it's him who did it. I've been really enjoying that girl lately and it feels really good. 

Today I did all the kid laundry start to finish. That used to be the norm for me, but these days, something always gets in the way of folding and putting it away. Not today though! 

After school, the kids and I ate eggs on toast for the first time in several days. It was delicious. Then Abigail colored forever in her sticker book and Brady and Elizabeth and I played in the playroom and threw the basketballs in the hoop at the same time. Abigail used her gold glitter to decorate her coloring pages and then counted out 20 of them and put them in her backpack to take them to each of her classmates tomorrow. I didn't want to squash her plan (and how well she is executing it), but I do wonder how annoyed her teacher will be and how this'll play out tomorrow. ; ) 

As a result of my minimalism reading, I'm going around my house and questioning all the spaces that aren't really working for me and it feels really good. Those cabinets that are annoyingly full of stuff so I can't fit anything else, but I only use one or two small things from there. It's amazing how full things are when they actually only contain a handful of things I regularly use or need. So the other day I did the drawer that holds my brush, straightener, curling wand, and blow dryer and finally removed that old brush that Abigail bit and broke, a diffuser I never ever use, and two old curling irons that don't work well on my hair. Today, I went through the drawer under the ovens, and both huge sections under our kitchen island. I also semi tackled our hotel soaps and a few other odds and ends (like condensing Vaseline... why does it come in tubs that just don't make sense?!). Presley came over again to play for a few hours which was great because the kids play better when she's here. They're all happy, they don't care about watching a movie, and they're better behaved to each other because I've told them how Presley gets so easily upset by contention. The day just went really well and tonight wasn't rushed at all getting ready for bed. Honey went to the march madness games today and got home around midnight and since I was organizing in the kitchen, I was actually awake when he got here! 

Anyway, it was a good day. But aside from any of the things I've listed, really it was just that I felt happy. I didn't have an overwhelming headache or backache or fatigue or laziness or impatience at my children. I had motivation and excitement for doing my everyday things and was able to maintain a standard that made me happy. Crossing my fingers for another day like this tomorrow. ; ) 

And as a random note... Elizabeth is still sick. It's like a super mild version of the croup that Brady had in panama. Hopefully she feels better soon. In the meantime, she's super restless while she sleeps and moves all over her crib. Which makes me nervous because she's fully swaddled still and already congested. So now I'm one of those parents that's paranoid about my kid suffocating in a crib bumper while she sleeps. On a happy note though, she's still "sleeping through the night" even though she's waking up all the time and squirming around in her crib. Maybe I could get some sleep if I wasn't spending all my time watching her on the monitor. ; )

The yucky part

I bought these little chobani Greek yogurt cups last time I was at costco because they were on sale. 

Abigail likes to stir hers up (the fruit is on the bottom and the plain yogurt is on the top) and eat it. Props to her for doing something the standard way for once. ; )

Brady likes to use a tiny baby spoon and take itty bitty bites, stopping conpletely when he sees "the yucky part."  I've explained to him that that's actually the yummy fruit part (let's be honest, plain Greek yogurt tastes gross and chalky and is the real "yucky part"), but he will not be persuaded.

That kid. 

Our Saturday soccer walk

Honey had to go into work this morning to interview someone, so he didn't get home til 11:30. The kids had left out all their toys the night before (that's what happens when I'm not the one to put them to bed) and I have a general rule that I don't clean up toys, so it was all still out this morning. Brady had been poking me in the face and talking to me earlier but he went away when I told him I was still sleeping. I can't remember if that was before or after my dream about being on the bachelor and being in love with Ben Higgins. I've been having so many weird dreams lately. So I finally woke up at 8:45 to the kids asking me if they could watch a show. "Yes! You may!" Just clean up all the toys in the house and pick out what you want to watch!  I'll lay here until you're done..."  ; )  They did a great job. And they chose magic school bus. I love that they love that show. It was one of my favorites as a kid and it's super educational about really great stuff like how plants grow and where eggs come from and what's in the ocean and other basic things that just don't occur to me to explain to my children in depth. 

So when honey came home at 11:30 after a morning at the office, all four of us were sitting in a row at the table (well Elizabeth was in her high chair at the end of the table) eating cereal (Elizabeth had cherrios) in our pajamas. It was wonderful. We all got dressed and walked to the nearby soccer park to watch some kid games and hang out and play on the playground. I put Elizabeth down for a nap by two and showered. Chris played outside with the kids and then fed and bathed them. It was so sad for me to have to wake Elizabeth up at 4:45 again. I didn't have her nap this morning because I forgot... Oops... and she's just been putting up with a whole lotta sleep deprivation lately. Sorry sweet girl. 

We all got in the car and picked up pizza and went to the hanlins to watch the avs game. They had pigs in a blanket and salad and I ate til I was stuffed. I love hanging out with Becky. I also love looking at all her furniture. She's so crafty   Everything is unique and has been painted or reupholstered or somehow been made pretty and special by her. I need her to teach me how to do something simple. Like paint a picture frame. ; ) 

The avs blew it... As they are prone to do. We went to the avs game last Saturday with the kids... And the Saturday before was the outdoor game at coors field I think. And this one we watched with the Hanlins. All three games, the avs play great the first half and are a goal or two ahead. And then they just start slacking and the other team comes from behind. We'll see if they can manage to get to the playoffs. Brady and Abigail had such a fun time playing with Mia and Becky made brownies with cookie dough on top, so despite the loss, we all had a great time. 

It's hard for me to wrap my head around the happy phases and rough slumps I go through with my moods, but I'm grateful right now to be in one of those happy and motivated stages. And I'm thankful tomorrow is Sunday. It's gonna be great. 

Spring is around the corner

Friday was good. I woke up feeling like I had a hangover. I'd only gotten like two or three hours of sleep... Interrupted because Elizabeth woke up sometime in there... Because my phone was on the verge of crashing from having zero memory so I spent hours backing stuff up and clearing memory. I'm sure it's a quicker job than that but I'm not super tech savvy so it took me a while. Anyway, moving my head was horrific. But I got Abigail to school, was productive while she was gone, and even had Brady and myself dressed when it came time to pick her up. 

I popped some alieve finally and we all went to a park around one. The weather was almost perfect. A tad on the hot side, but really, it was great. We stayed for 2.5 hours. Even then, we only left because I had to drop three things back by the library and wanted to have time to make dinner for Christopher who was having a difficult day at work. It was just great and I was enjoying the spring weather until I saw a spider keep crossing the sidewalk. I like a lot of things about winter like hot chocolate and watching the pretty snow fall, but my all time very favorite part of winter is that I never ever see spiders. So, for that reason, I kinda dread spring and summer... but I'm trying to be a little better about it this year. Pray for me and maybe I can skip being jumpy and breaking out into a full body sweat every time I see a dark piece of lint on the floor. While we were at the playground, Jodi called me back and we talked for over half an hour. I seriously never ever see or talk to her anymore and that simple phone call made me feel so much better. Also, by the time I got off the phone with her, my headache was nearly gone. 

I ran those things by the library and Brady and Elizabeth both fell asleep on the way home. Abigail and I walked to the mailbox together. My new watch came!  Woohoo!  We just cancelled our Amazon prime and this is the first thing I've ordered since then. All I kept thinking was "this sure isn't two day shipping anymore" just like how Dorothy says her comment about "this sure isn't Kansas."  It took an entire week but it's okay. It's so pretty. Now I just need to take it in to get sized and my wrist can have a real watch again instead of the Fitbit I've been using! I made spaghetti pie (well, from the freezer) and zucchini and garlic bread .  I know most people probably make dinner every night, but I don't. So this dinner made me feel very accomplished. It was also delicious so I sat down and ate with the family even though I should have taken Elizabeth up to bed. During dinner, when honey had only been home maybe 15 minutes, Elizabeth was yelling and fussing and he was all "what is her deal tonight?!?!" Well, it was because she'd been awake for 9 hours with the exception of a ten minute nap in her car seat (Brady woke her up because he wanted to play with her, ugh) and she was so insanely tired. But it was so perfect. That's the best way to describe how always happy she is. When she fusses and our reaction is "holy cow, what is her deal?!?!" because it's so uncharacteristic of her. 

So, the day started horribly and thankfully got better. I'm gonna remember this for the next time I wake up with a throbbing head. It'll give me hope. ; ) 

Let's celebrate!

I think I'm a lazier person than most. What I accomplish on a daily basis is almost always disappointing to me. But today, I felt pretty satisfied with everything. So let's take a moment to celebrate this success!  Also, let's pretend I do this stuff allll the time. 

This morning I woke up on my own around 7:30. Because I'd gone to bed at 9:30 and only woken up once (with Elizabeth at 10:30 since I'd put her to bed at 6pm) in there. Brady and Abigail got ready 99% on their own and ate breakfast great. Elizabeth was awake in her crib when I woke up and was her usual adorable self all morning. She hung out in her high chair during breakfast... All three kids at that end of the table. It was precious. I curled Abigail's hair before school (this is now my favorite thing to do because it is the quickest and easiest way to 100% disguise the crazy bed heads she wakes up with each morning. I used to have to wet it completely and try to brush it straight. Now I can just break it in sections to wrap about my wand for a few seconds and were good to go. Also, she looks amazing with her hair curled. At least I think so. It's seriously the cutest thing ever even though it's just a few relaxed curls. And she's a good sport about it. She looked precious today although I think she's such a cute kid in general. She wore her ripped old navy jeans, that navy blue flower shirt I got her at kohls (I always love when she actually likes any item of clothing that I've picked out), her pink fleece, and brown riding boots. Maybe that's why I loved her outfit... I actually purchased everything she wore... Right down to her socks and undies. That makes me smile. 

When we got home, Elizabeth fed herself a bottle (I'd had to pump when she woke up because she only ate one side) in her car seat while I hurried to make some banana muffins. I'm cleaning out my freezer and this was the last of my frozen bananas. Woohoo! Brady was kinda whiny (maybe it's because he's still feeling a bit sick but yikes, the boy whines like it's his job) but I didn't let it really bother me. I swept and cleaned up and put away groceries (from seriously two days ago because I suck) and got dressed and even curled my hair and put on mascara. Elizabeth woke up and we got Abigail from school. 

I gave Elizabeth some applesauce and the kids ate the rest of their oatmeal and cuties and apple and some banana muffins and gathered some books and movies and we hit up the library for a bit. The library is my happy place. When we go, we return a big stack of books and then I send the kids to play on the game computers while I filled Elizabeth's stroller with tons of new books. Then I grab a couple of DVDs they might like (today was a magic school bus) and plop myself on the little bench to do whatever I want on my phone for however long I want. Because all three kids are quiet and content. Today we also read some board books before checking everything out and heading home. And I even finally paid for the little baseball board book that we lost a few months ago (and I've just been renewing). I've never lost a library book before, but luckily this one was only $8 and they said they would refund my money if I ever found it and brought it back. Sweet. 

When we got home, the kids did their things and picked a Dora show to watch. Right now, I love having the kids watch something around 4 o clock. I can get them to do anything I want before they get to watch a show (clean up all their toys and stuff) and it gives me time to make dinner (which I rarely do) or recharge my patience (which is typically necessary)... Today I used Mexican chicken (from the freezer cleanout) to make a few pans of chicken enchiladas. One went in the oven for dinner. Two went to the freezer. I think cooking is such a pain because I'm so easily distracted and it's stressful for me, but these enchiladas are really super easy so it makes me feel all domestic when it's such a breeze to throw together. 

We got a bunch of produce at sprouts yesterday (I think it was only my second time shopping there, ever.  But I'm redoing the way that I shop now that Walmart is changing their policies and is basically a huge pain) so the kids had an apple and cuties before dinner and then ate enchiladas and mango and avocado and Abigail had some tomato as well. 

Honey got home (with a headache) and we had a fun conversation about how eating healthy foods is annoying because fruits and vegetables typically don't keep you full long at all. Honey ate lunch at 12:30 and said he was starved by 1. I told him he needed to eat some protein for lunch to keep him full a little longer. ; ) 

I put Abigail and Brady to bed except that honey read them scriptures while I got Elizabeth up and nursed her. The kids did well and I did really well being their mom. We read books and really just took our time. It was quiet and enjoyable. I didn't focus on the clock and getting them to bed on time... Just on doing our things. I didn't tell them goodnight til 8:30, but it's okay. I feel good about it. I fed Elizabeth the leftover avocado and tomato and she loved it. And she hung out with me while I ate and cleaned up and it was just great. I didn't get her to bed til maybe 10, but once again, I ignored the clock and just did my thing. Everyone else was asleep and it was so great to get that one on one time with her. I even gave her a little haircut. Even if it was just one snip of about a quarter inch from five hairs. ; ) 

So, my house is all picked up, my dishwasher is humming away, everyone is fast asleep, and I fed my family and kept my patience all day long. I even looked decent while doing it!  Can we pretend that I do this every day? Because that would be amazing. 

Elizabeth at 9.5 months

Elizabeth really is the best. She's as easy as Abigail was, but about fifty times happier. Abigail was really content. Elizabeth is just giddy about life. She smiles and laughs and just flails her arms with excitement.  She is a delight through and through. 

I didn't put her down for her second nap today until after four because we were at the library. So Elizabeth woke up while I was putting the kids to bed. It was just as I'd hoped. So I got her out of her crib and she sat and hung out with us while we read and just took some time to unwind. We are all just sweeter to each other when she is present. Also, she's so adorable to look at. Especially when she is so patiently accepting all of Brady's hugs and kisses. The kids love her so much. We all do. It's impossible not to. 

So after we said goodnight to the kids, I took Elizabeth to the kitchen to give her solids. I still suck at doing this but today was better. Tonight I fed her Brady's leftover avocado from dinner, Abigail's leftover tomato, and a little bit of mango, leftover on the cutting board. ; ) She loved it. Who would have known she would love tomato so much! She really is a little Abigail. Abigail's very favorite food at 12 months was tomato and it seems to be one of Elizabeth's favorites too judging how she took to it tonight. She also seemed to really like the avocado. She started out as a pretty finicky eater but she's really seeming to be branching out these days. She also had some puffs and cherrios. I don't think she was hungry still after all the avocado and half a tomato, but I was enjoying her company while I finished dishes and tidied up the kitchen. 

Seriously, her presence is just a gift. I kept thinking about that tonight. Everyone else was asleep. I'd put the kids to bed and honey was already asleep because he'd had a headache and put himself to bed. So it was just the two of us hanging out in the kitchen. I fed her, I had some oatmeal, and I just talked to her while I did a ton of dishes. If that had been me and baby Brady, I would have felt butter and resentful of Christopher that he was passed out in bed while I was up til 10pm caring for our child (who would have been fine if I'd just nursed her and put her back to bed instead of getting her up to read books with the kids and me) and cleaning up dishes and dinner and the kitchen. But I wasn't. I was happy and cooing (along with Elizabeth) and just completely happy with that special alone time with her. Because that's how it is with her.  Better. Everything is better with Elizabeth. 

And because I suck at writing monthly posts, here's the random specifics...  Elizabeth is wearing size two diapers, 6-12 month clothing, taking two naps (roughly 10-12 and 2-4:30... Give or take), waking up once a night, mostly nursing and eating baby food once or twice a day if I remember, great at feeding herself a bottle, sitting up and rolling over still, but not at all mobile and not even showing signs of rocking on all fours, army crawling, or pulling up on anything. HALLELUJAH! 

She is my perfect little pet rock. That happens to smile and laugh all the time. I couldn't love her more. My mouth literally hurts from smiling when I'm around her and my heart is bursting. I feel so privledged to be able to experience her. 

Elizabeth, you are perfection. 

Random thoughts from halfway through the week

Today was good. 

I got Abigail to school late, but I did fix the button on her favorite pink coat and help her write in mr. Bear's journal... And we were calm and on good terms. 

Brady took a nap, so I put Elizabeth to sleep as soon as I could and they overlapped for an hour or so. I read in the red chair in the sun. I think I'm maybe on page 9 of Jesus the Christ. I'm getting nowhere fast. 

The kids had their first taste today of the magic school bus and they liked it and learned a bit. I loved magic school bus books as a kid. I thought they were sooo cool. 

Elizabeth is crazy. She can't stand vegetables (although I think I'm making progress on the non-green ones like carrots and sweet potato) but was loving grapefruit tonight. Honey was eating one and we thought it would be fun to give her a taste to see how she would handle the sour and we could laugh at her sour pucker face. Not the case. It was like we were feeding her applesauce or something. So she actually ate several wedges (that I cut small for her and fed her with a spoon) and I was able to use the juice to mix with carrots to get her to eat that. Ha. Also, for reference for my future children... I'm having luck easing into veggies by adding applesauce to peas (or whatever she doesn't like) and feeding her that. Then with a few bites left, I mix in more peas to the current mixture. And then again when there's only a few bites left. So by the end, she's pretty much eating straight peas. Tonight I did it with carrots and it was pretty flawless. Green veggies are harder because she dislikes them more, but it still works. My other kids had more issue with texture (only liked jarred purées, not mashed or cut up stuff) than taste so this is pretty new to me. 

Abigail and I had a good day today. We talked, read books, she played with Brady... It was nice. She brought home a cat in the hat, hat that she made that had rhyming words on it. So I had her write out the alphabet and ad "at" to all the letters and then put a sit next to the ones that made real words. I'm kinda sucky at explaining why "eat" and "oat" don't rhyme with the other real words like sat, may, fat, pat, etc. Is there a better explaination than "sometimes words are tricky..."  

Brady loves giving Elizabeth kisses (and me and chris actually too) and is always "I need to smooch Elizabeth" or "ummm, I need to give Elizabeth five kisses" and then counts them out. It's adorable. He's been kinda passive aggressive though lately and acting more crazy and babyish. Not sure if it's a phase or what, but the pro of it is that I can point it out to Abigail and she sees it from the outside perspective and it helps her to be more mature. So they're not seeming like twins anymore lately and that's alright. Even if Brady might drive me crazy sometimes I feel like I have Abigail on my side. 

I sure love my honey. Tonight, our whole family was just great together. This afternoon, Abigail asked if it was almost nighttime. "Not really... Would you like it to be nighttime already?" "Yes! Because I want to see daddy!!!" The kids built a fort to hide in (with zero prompting from me) and it reminded me of the can't-be-more-obvious hiding places I would think of for my dad to find me when he got home from work. It was serious déjà vu. 

Elizabeth is the easiest, most smiley, constantly laughing baby ever. She cries when she's hurt and that's basically it. A typical day involves less than 20 seconds of crying (if that). Today was me accidentally bonking her face when I was reaching for something I think. I can't remember, but Brady immediately turned to me (kinda angrily... because like I said, he's got an attitude now) and, stern faced and completely serious was all "*you* did that."  Sadly, yes. 

Also, I collected visiting teaching reports. I got rid of traditional districts reporting to supervisors and had everyone report straight to me. And I collect the rest. It's so much easier. I seriously love my calling. 

I put a tall mug of milk on my nightstand each night before I go to bed. When I wake up during the night (normally for Elizabeth), then I chug the glass of milk and go nurse her. It is the most delicious ten seconds of my day. I can't even describe it, but every time is amazing beyond words. It gives me the best motivation of hop out of bed no matter how tired I am. 

Speaking of which... I guess I'm so good at staying half asleep when I get up with Elizabeth that sometimes my Fitbit just thinks that I'm restless. Yes, Fitbit, I went 80 steps and up a flight of stairs but I'm not fully awake... Just call me "restless." Most of the time it's really accurate. But a time or two (like last night) it hasn't been and I thought it was pretty funny. 

I'm going to Georgia next month for my grandmother's birthday. I think about it every day. Granny is also super excited. I talked to her on the phone the other day and she was so excited that she turned to my mom all "Kay! Carrie said she's going to call me on my birthday!!!" Even while I'm yelling into the phone "NO GRANNY. I'M GOING TO BE THERE WITH YOU ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. WE ALREADY HAVE PLANE TICKETS."  But she's still stuck on that phone call. I'm telling myself it's because she's just thrilled. Hopefully she's not disappointed. 

We're having so much spring weather that I keep forgetting its winter. Abigail is also confused about it. Brady knows it's winter and is oblivious to the fact that it feels like spring. When I'm parking in the garage he's always saying "mom, when I get unbuckled, can I shovel the driveway?"  No Brady. There's no snow.  "Whhhhyyyy mom?!  Why is there no snow on the driveway????"  Also, I still loooove when he says stuff like "last day" instead of yesterday or whatever. It makes sense I guess when we say "last month" and "last week" that we should say "last day" but it never occurred to me before Brady made it a regular phrase. Also. I need to make muffins. For no other reason than that I love to hear him ask for "nuffins."  

I've enjoyed this season of the bachelor and I couldn't figure out why because it's more boring than most. Then I realized it's because I think the guy and his two finalist girls are actually normal and likeable. And because I like boring stuff. Don't get me too emotionally invested. I don't enjoy that. 

Is anyone else still going crazy that Bernie sanders won multiple states last night?!?!  Including Colorado. Of course. Because Colorado just votes like that. First weed, then Bernie sanders. With other stuff in the middle. I swear, I meet people when I'm traveling and it's only drama the stuff they hear about Colorado in the news. We can't appear to be normal state or anything close to it. 

And I think that's a wrap. I'm definitely not going to be meeting my sleep goal tonight...

Elizabeth loves green beans!

Just kidding. She doesn't. She still hates all vegetables. 

We'll keep working on it though.