the cake decorating classes sound right up your alley.  i would like to take something like that.  although i don't think i'd be good at cake decorating.  i'm not very neat.

 

yesterday was a holiday for us - mlk day. 

 

the party went well.  i didn't get anything done on saturday. i  was too sick.  i decided i'd rather chance waking up feeling better and just rush.  i did feel a lot better sunday.  we rushed around but not as much as you'd think - i was no feeling perfectionist.  scott did plenty so that was a big help.  i kept finding myself messing with the balloons instead of cleaning so i had to get back to that.  i didn't bother dusting or anything.  dust is so thick on my furniture you can write in it but i didn't care much.  mostly because it was all kids with the only adults staying being my two sisters and their husbands.  and my sisters are sucky housekeepers so they were impressed by clean bathrooms and a vacuumed floor lol.  the kids had fun, the cake looked very cool (mary made it for me - a lego head), and my sisters wound up staying after and we got a pizza which is a first for us to just all hang out together.  the guys went down and watched the p layoffs.  we probably hung out more because my one sister, mary, who never celebrated birthdays is now around with her very sociable husband who likes to hang - they always have friends over and dinner with friends and stuff so it was nothing for them to stay and watch football whereas my other sister and husband aren't really like that.  he is but not her.  so he was happy to get pizza and watch football with the guys.  sarah ended up hiding out in my living room with one of scott's weird books and mary & i went upstairs and watched a tv show while the kids played so it was nice in an odd way.  sarah's husband wants to do it more often - he was talking about a pig roast with everyone's families including all the in-laws which would be interesting since we've never had anything where all the crow kids (meaning me and my sisters and brother) AND our significant' others' families all hung out at the same time.  usually for baby showers or whatever there might be one inlaw family there, depending on who the shower is for, so that would be weird to have the entire extended family.  they are all so different than each other but it's his family that's really into family gatherings - meanwhile i doubt my mil, who is our only extended family really since scott's little brothers lives 3 hours away, would come to something like that. she doesn't like noise and there'd definitely be noise!

 

i see you got pullups for delaney - does she still wet at night?  i feel for you.  we are still buying them for both kids and poor braeden is so big his whole butt hangs out.  i really hope puberty stops this for him like it did for erik!

 

well i'm going to go shower and then run braeden's glasses up to the school.  it's hard for him to remember them - i need to put a note in the van for him to remember.  it's a hard thing since it's not like he can just pack them in one place, since he wears them off and on all the time.  i'm just proud of him that he hasn't lost them yet!  they are on his little wooden cat at night.

 

i doubt i'll get anything done today.  we'll see.  i'm feeling lazy!