Adventures in La La Land

1. We had a nice Easter - church, then lunch and cards with the VKs. I think I've mentioned before that I want to do a gallery wall of family pictures in our new living room, but as I tried to fill my frames with pictures, I realize we don't have a single good family picture since Levi was a baby. It's mostly my fault - I've gained so much weight that I hate being in front of the camera. Plus, we're usually a rag-tag bunch. So I was determined that on Easter, when we actually put some effort into our appearance, we'd take a family picture. Look how cute it turned out: Unfortunately, when I attempted to print it as an 8x10, it turned out all grainy. Stupid phone. I guess I need to get someone with a real camera to take our picture . . . for free. 🤣 2. I tried grocery delivery for the first time this week. I got a free trial of Instacart Express, so I just had to pay for the groceries and a tip. It was SO worth it. I despise  grocery shopping with my kids, s...

1. I'm back to the land of the living with functional wireless Internet! My brother finally cancelled his service, so I could sign up for my own. I was supposed to have until last Wednesday, but it turned off Friday night. No matter who Luke talked to at Spectrum, they kept saying, "Oh sorry. We'll get it turned right back on." But they never did. And when I called to sign up for service they wouldn't let me keep Luke's equipment (even though it's the same company!), but had to mail me my own. So we weren't up and running until Tuesday. It was actually pretty terrible. I didn't feel "oh so refreshed." I felt cut off from the world and antsy. Lol. #firstworldproblems I ran out of data on my phone after the first day, paid extra for another gig and then tore through that in one more day. Yikes. I have a problem. #netflixandpinterest 2. I know this is old news now, but I like to record it . . . Somewhere around the end of March I start to ...

I totally forgot about the Saturday 7 until 11:30 last night. My bad. 1. We took Spring Break along with the public schools this week. It was glorious. No schedule. No fighting over school work. No planning or preparing. We only have 6 weeks to go. We can do it! 2. We didn't do anything too fun or exciting for Spring Break. Lucy had a friend over on Monday, I had a friend (and her kids) over on Tuesday, we took walks, played games, and finished out the week at the Pump House with the rest of West Michigan. 3. The older I get, the more I realize how ridiculous it is to live in Michigan. So much of our life is spent under clouds, huddled in our warm houses, spending time and money to remove snow and ice, risking our lives to drive anywhere, and dealing with gloom and darkness. It's been interesting to live in town and see how people start to come out of their houses as the weather gets warmer like ants out of a hill. Everyone and their pasty skin squinting in the sun, rakin...