its been a CRAZY weekend. Jim just took off to hockey and i am about to start to wind things down for an early bedtime.

bunk beds – check! the bunk beds are great. the girls are too excited to actually sleep, of course, so we had an awful time getting them to bed last night. tonight should be a tad easier. eventually the novelty will wear off. i didnt end up getting to the value village so i just took some of our bed sheets and tucked them all around the mattresses. it’ll do for now until i manage to get down to the store.

i started the day by taking the girls out to a cloth diaper swap. this was basically a bunch of moms having a cloth diaper garage sale. it was actually in someones driveway. i got some more diapers since ours are old and pretty beat up at this point. picked up some tiny newborn sized diapers. the mom selling them gave me the whole lot for $1 each. thats cheaper than disposable diapers. my babies don’t tend to be super small, but they are slightly too small for our diapers to start with, and at $1 each its a pretty safe gamble, even if we only end up using them for like two weeks. and since emperor qin padlocked the garbage can, its probably best if we use the least amount of disposables possible. (he’ll pay for it when we do tons more laundry. suck it up, emporer qin. this is what you get for being an asshole). got a whole stack of ‘prefold’ diapers, which is basically a large cotton cloth pad. they don’t need to be diapers they can be cloths, or wipes, or whatever. multipurpose, also about $1 each. good haul.

went to ‘the big pet store’ on the way home, got some fancy cat food and a new collar for bindi, who slipped hers and lost it sometime in the fall. i didn’t worry about it in the winter because she never went out, but now shes spending all day outside again and I’ll feel better if she had a collar and a tag.

then it was birthday time! i can’t be bothered to write about the birthday. all the kids had a great time and theres a whole bunch of leftover watermelon to make watermelon lemonade out of. blaze spent some time naked. she just decided she was finished with her clothes and peeled them off. took some time before we managed to sweet talk her into putting her clothes back on.  there was three babies there and we all constantly passed them around. my neighbour kate actually took home my sling because i let her borrow it for baby millie to nap in. her husband walked home with my hot pink sling and his totally blissed out, fast asleep baby tied to his chest. very sweet.

i am fucking wiped out. i am going to try to get them down for bed early, because they are also fucking wiped out. blaze has had a couple meltdowns of the ‘i can’t handle the universe’ kinds. i can tell you that they will be wearing new princess dresses to school tomorrow. i will be cleaning. and making watermelon lemonade.