Although it was a short week, it was a busy one.

The weekend started with Manchild waking up everyone early on Sunday morning. He’s usually not the first one awake, so I was surprised when he insisted on waking me up. While I fixed his breakfast, he proceeded to wake the other children, going so far as to steal Jumpshot’s blanket. How cruel! James does that to me to wake me up, and it always makes me mad. I’m not a good morning person.

We spent our MLK Day at the dentist. I love our dentist. She is great. They hygienists are professional and make the kids feel at ease. But nothing could console our little Manchild. He worked himself into a frenzy and threw up. They were great at cleaning him up, but a lot of it ended up on me trying to console him. As you can imagine I was pretty much done for the day after that.

But Jumpshot had a basketball game that night, which after our trip to the dentist, completely slipped my mind. James doesn’t understand how that could possibly happen. I have no explanation. I just knew next on my agenda was a grocery store venture after cleaning up Manchild and myself. Despite my brain fart, we all made it to the game, thanks to James. And for once, Diva and Manchild behaved pretty well at the game.

Tuesday, our Jumpshot turned 11. We celebrated with little treats leading up to the big day, cake that night, and a new bike a couple days later. I couldn’t be more prouder of him, and I’m sad that he’s growing up so fast. Jumpshot had another game on Wednesday and then another today.

He’s been slammed with homework this week. Diva’s class celebrated the 100th day of school, and Manchild slept through the night last night.

This week I took some time to take care of myself. I saw a dermatologist for some sun damage on my face. He actually told me I was more susceptible to sun damage because I’m “really, really white.” I could’ve told him that. Although I would have put it in a nicer way. I prefer “really fair.”

James and I had a date night last night. All we did was drop the kids off at the play center and stay home and watch TV uninterrupted. It was a blissful two hours.

That’s pretty much the week. It’s carnival time in Louisiana, so we’ll be going to a parade soon. The weather has warmed up considerably, so the kids have been enjoying some quality outdoor time. Until next week, have some adventures yourself!