Hello and Happy Monday. Did everyone have a nice St. Patrick’s Day weekend? We had a huge snowstorm at the end of last week and after being housebound with the kids for two days, I was ready to dogsled them Grandma Lori’s come Friday morning. Or, at least, drive Joey’s truck 😋 How do stay-at-home parents do it?? We had a low-key Friday, hit up the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday morning, took a walk to a coffee shop that afternoon, then played and did chores on Sunday until my family came over for corned beef and cabbage.

The kids and Joey came home with this “Oscar” for me on Friday 😂 I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it here yet, but Lydi and I’s breastfeeding journey has officially come to and end. So bittersweet because she and I had it so good and easy the entire 15 months we did it for, but I was ready to be done and girlfriend is such a good solid food eater, I felt confident she didn’t need it calorie-wise. Post-award ceremony, we had wings for dinner, put the kids to bed and started a movie.

Saturday morning, Dempsey and I made us all some whole wheat banana pancakes that I thought were a little gloopy but no one else seemed to mind. We were debating taking the kids to the parade, so we asked Dempsey and he was SO enthusiastic about going! Got there with ten minutes to spare and stayed for about an hour. It was a good time! The kids got beads, bubbles and candy, plus we saw bagpipes, firetrucks and jump ropers. Took a pedicab two blocks back to our car afterward and I felt judged by everyone we passed for having two small children on the back of a moving vehicle without seatbelts 😋

Back at home, we played outside, Lydi took a nap — the two to one nap transition is in effect right now! — Dempsey and I ate lunch and then, when our re-scheduled house cleaning happened, we vacated to Convivio for a mid-day pick me up. Dempsey literally fell asleep in the stroller five minutes into the walk 🤪 Lydi had her first steamer and chugged the whole thing 😅 Back at home, I made the ugliest-looking cream of mushroom soup and just when I was convinced my kids would be absolutely disgusted by how it looked, they both wolfed it down 🤷‍♀️ I guess I don’t know them at all! After they were both asleep, Joey and I finished Next Goal Wins and we unfortunately did not love it.

We started Sunday with breakfast sandwiches by Joey 🥰 The kids are playing together more and more these days and it’s so sweet. Dempsey is always surprising me by how non-possessive he can be over his own toys and how naturally he’s able to teach Lydia to do what he’s doing. He can be so helpful sometimes 🤍 While Lydia was down for her nap, he and I took a trip to the store, then came home for lunch and this little Easter food craft. Took us all of ten minutes to make them and he only ate two Twinkie innards, a Peep, some mini Oreos and several handfuls of chocolate covered pretzels in that time 😂 Got our little girl dressed and ready for guests and then my mom brought over apps and dinner for all of us. Dempsey ate cheese and dessert and wouldn’t even try the corned beef but Lydi seemed into it. Joey had a fantasy baseball draft, so he disappeared and I put both kids to bed, said goodbye to my family and read for a bit. Once he was done, we started the new episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm then went to bed. Last night, Dempsey slept in his room all by himself for the first time in like three weeks, so cheers to that!