It has snowed, and rained, and been sunny.  Sums up lol. 

The girls are creating A to Z Geography notebooks like their brothers before them. They are amazing!  Every day I am in awe of each new entry. They have dug out the geography puzzles again and are going over one daily.  

We had St Patrick's Day on Sunday so they could have dessert of choice.  Also we had indoor soccer and football on Saturday which took up much of the day.  So Sunday morning we loaded the crock pot with corned beef and cabbage.  The kids made brownie and mint ice cream sandwiches for dessert.  Big hit but I will admit the brownies were not terribly cooperative when coaxing them into being sandwiches.  humph.  

Archie was also not real thrilled with his St Patrick's attire.  

We moved right into the feast of St Joseph. The children, who wouldn't know a cannoli if it hit them, were thrilled with the storebought cream puffs. I had a plan to pick up white lilies for the table but they were not to be found last minute.  Too early for Easter lilies and no white bouquets at the store.  So we settled on roses and some colored lilies.  Things like this take up a lot of my brain space, just so you know. 

Some other meals this week.  Paleo taco salad with cauliflower chili pilaf and tomatillo salsa

and a typical breakfast lineup on a school day.  Fruit, nuts, pancakes, milk.  Insert a mom chorus of, "Breakfast is ready!  Hurry up!  Eat your food! It's time for school! Let's get started!" 

We are reading this aloud.  Perhaps no one is enjoying quite as much as I!  

"Want to squeeze in one more chapter??"

"Uh, ok, Mom.  Sure."

No one send me spoilers.  We are nearly to the end and I need to know what happens to the king and the other king and who gets the girl. 

In other news, shopping happened.  Husband and I thought it would be a relaxing outing.  We were wrong about that.  Many small changes have happened in the fashion industry even for men.  Nothing terrible, just a little disconcerting. Outfit separates combined in sometimes daring – though admittedly attractive – color and texture combos.  Pants no longer always sold by lengths.  We liked a lot of what we saw but it either didn't fit middle aged bodies as well as lithe young adult models or we were out of our depth in assembling pieces successfully.  This happens periodically, these little reminders that small changes add up to bigger ones when you are only checking back once in a blue moon and not following things closely. Because?  Life.  There are only so many things one can follow closely. 

We ended up at Nordstrom Rack where, cough, mature shoppers can slip right into comfortable coordinating traditional cuts and colors.  We need to research more before we tackle this again lol. 

Here we are again at the weekend.  I swear the time is whipping past anymore.  No matter how carefully we plot our days on the planner it is always a surprise, at the end of them.  Like, this is it?  Day is over already?  I think I recall hearing my grandmother and others talk about time seeing to pass quicker and quicker with each decade.  They were right.  So when older folks exhort you to not waste a single moment of it, just know that's part of the perspective.  I DO recall days as a young mother when I would sink back into the pillow and it truly seemed like days and days must have passed since dawn broke.   It's all such a mystery, all good in its own way, just so different as life progresses.  

Have a blessed weekend, friends.