A little pat on the back tonight. We were outside all afternoon and when we finally came in it was six o'clock. Oops. And we had some followers.  So bag of meatballs and a bag of broccoli, and I fed six kids! And it was calm and everyone had good manners. And I was the only adult there. 

Jack got up at 5 today but we pushed through on a walk to the beach then to the playground and lunch out even, then he napped from 1 until  4. That's like the schedule bobby had at this age so I'm going to try to get to that. But I will be the first to admit, I love my Mondays and/or Wednesdays when bobby is at school and jack naps at 9 or 10am. But maybe that is too much afternoon time awake and it's affecting his overnights. I don't feel the need to have my mornings free to clean and plan and whatnot when I'm so pooped and cooking this bun. 

For as bad as the rest of the country had an eternal winter with record low temps and snowfall, we didn't have a winter at all. Last year, there were 50s ad maybe even some days in the 40s, but nothing this year. Just Christmas Eve on the beach. Huh.