Gardens, Easter, and Barf

 1.) Garden Pictures! 

It's hard to believe we only planted six months ago. Things have only recently really started to take off though, I think they like the warmer weather. 

2.) Easter at the Carwash

Easter this year was a bit... interesting. 

We spent all day Holy Saturday setting up for a big party with family over. Got the yard cleaned, set up tables and chairs, made food-- the whole nine yards. 

Easter morning, we woke up to find Little Boy in a pool of vomit. He'd apparently thrown up and then just gone back to sleep. 

So the party got cancelled. Little Boy seemed in good spirits though, so we managed to go to mass. Chris had an idea afterwards-- "let's put them in swimsuits and go to a self car wash." 

So that's what we did for Easter. Let the kids get good and wet helping their daddy wash the van, then had a picnic lunch of Holy Saturday night's leftovers in a park. That particular park was on the bayfront and had a water fixture that was on, and the kids were already in swimsuits, so they got some playtime there as well. 

Little Boy crashed pretty hard as soon as we got in the van to go home and slept the rest of the day. It was low-key and not what we planned, but we made the most of it. 

3.) SUGAR 

CANDY. This isn't even all of it. 

There's so MUCH of it in the house right now. The remnants of two huge hollow Easter bunnies, a whole bunch of chocolate, a quarter jar of jelly beans. 

As I write this, we're dealing with another bout of sickness (including someone with the barfies) and general crankiness in the house. I can't help but think that the sugar increase might be playing a role. 

Sounds kind of pathetic, but I've got to find ways to celebrate that don't involve sweets. It's surprisingly hard, especially when there's factors (like having a baby in the house) that makes going places difficult. 

4.) Job Adjustment 

Art class mural project we found in the hall. Little Boy's face obscured because I'm paranoid. 

Chris really likes his new job. He gets along well with his co-workers, he has a nice office, and his boss is someone he can respect. 

He wanted us to come see the school, so I loaded up the kids, hit a drive through for burgers, and we ate lunch in his new office. 

His old job was at a school one sixth the size of his current school. He's one of multiple assistant principals, but will be in charge of discipline for a greater number of students than the entire student body of his old school. It's a big step up both in terms of pay and of responsibility. 

So it's no surprise that the new campus is huge. It's an older building (parts of the interior are very clearly from the late 50s or early 60s-- hello, Formica flooring)  that has low ceilings, few windows, and narrow hallways. The effect is that of going through the belly of a warship or being a mouse in a maze. 

One thing it has that I've never seen before is an arrangement with one of the city libraries. One of their locations is right next door to the campus, close enough that it could be mistaken as a building belonging to it. Rather than having a school library, students have a section of the city library set aside for them. They can get a pass and (technically) leave campus to work in the library. 

The kids and I spent some time in the library after Chris had to return to work. It's probably the newest building I've seen; very modern and open and airy. Almost the perfect contrast to the dated, almost claustrophobic feeling of the campus. 

And they have a decent kids section, which was a blessing. We were able to look at books and Bitty Baby was able to take a nice break from the stroller before we made the drive home. 

That's all for this past week.