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One of the hardest parts of writing blog posts is coming up with the title. Is that the weirdest thing ever? I feel like I have to have a title before I can start writing. Which is why, if you look through just the titles of this blog they usually repeat based upon the day of the week that they are posted. Is it Tuesday? Let's do an Insta-Tuesday post. Is it Friday? Top Five. Is it Wednesday? Let's just call it... Wednesday. Yeah, I'm pretty awesome.

I think I finally found a preschool! It's a preschool that is held in a Gymnastics gym and it incorporates gymnastics into the curriculum. (Meaning, they get to go learn gymnastic skills for a portion of the time and they try to incorporate physical movement into other parts of their teaching, too.) I'm super, super excited about it. I think it will be perfect for my incredibly active, physically adventurous daughter.

Speaking of, at this very moment, that daughter of mine is running around the house with absolutely zero pieces of clothing on. I sent her upstairs just a couple of minutes ago to put on her pajamas because she stripped out of her clothes the second we got home from running errands. (She prefers to be in pajamas if we are just hanging out at the house... *cough* I wonder where she gets that from.) However, she came back down - minus the underwear she was wearing - and now she's jumping around saying that she'll never, ever, ever get dressed again. *sigh* Picking my battles today.

Last night, David got home just after nine after working an incredibly long day at Eide Bailly. I was working on a new project for a friend/business. (Lioness at the Door - I haven't blogged about this, but I should soon. It's really incredible.) David got home, we popped popcorn and watched Studio C in our bed. It was so nice and I'm just so grateful that we have that time to spend together, even if he is working a lot of hours right now. Because let me be clear. He's working a lot of hours right now. But having a 16 month old and 3.75 year old is infinitely easier than having a 4 month old and a 2.75 year old and we are weathering the storm of busy season pretty well. Most of that credit needs to go to David. He's the one that is working so many hours, but when he is home... he is home.  He pays ample amounts of attention to the kids and plays the same game with them over and over and over. Then as soon as they are in bed, he talks to me and makes me feel like the best wife/mother in the world. (Even if I never actually got any of us out of our pajamas that day.) He is just so kind. And I'm grateful. So I will not complain about him working late, because I know how hard he is working - and how hard he works to make sure that we all still feel loved when he is home. He's amazing. I really don't know how he does it.

*Update: Lydia is now wearing both underwear and her "minnie mouse pajamas that she got for Christmas". That's how she specifies them. Thanks Aunt Jenna for the rocking-awesome Christmas gift, she wears them pretty much every day.*

Speaking of Aunt Jenna, for Camille's birthday we gave her a "coupon" to come with us to the Children's Museum. Jenna came down with Jason and Camille and braved coming with us and we had a really nice time. I can't say enough how incredibly glad I am that Jenna lives close to us finally! She's been stuck away in Idaho for years and years and having her in Salt Lake makes me so happy. I love that we can get together on a random weekday and spend time together. I know this probably isn't a permanent thing, so I'm just going to enjoy her while I have her here!

I don't think we are going to renew our Thanksgiving Point Passes this year. They expire next week. (At least mine does. Lydia and David's passes go until May - so he'll still be able to go with the kids on the weekends.) We didn't go as much this year as we did initially and it's just more money now that we have to pay for a pass for Lydia, too. Last year to earn the money for our passes, we put a message on our neighborhood Facebook page and offered to watch people's kids on Valentines day. We got a decent showing - and then I supplemented the rest with other money that I earned from babysitting. But this year, I think we are going to focus on trying to do other fun things that cost less money. I always feel like if we are going to do something we need to go to the museum because we paid so much money for the passes, but there are actually a lot of cheap and free things to do around here and I'm so excited for summer so we can get out and do some of those fun things. (Plus, we got pass of all passes this year and I'm planning to spend the summer at seven peaks!)

In other random news. I did the funniest thing this last week. A girl posted and asked if anyone was able to sew well enough to make a Spiderman wedding garter for her wedding. I have some lace and ribbons and things just laying around (thank you Grandma McAllister for all the beautiful lace!) so I messaged her and told her that I could. In retrospect, it was way more work for not enough money and it took much longer than I thought- but I did it. As I was sewing the garter, I was asking myself, "Why am I doing this? What was I thinking?" Then after I delivered it, they loved it so much that they wanted me to make another one for them to toss at the reception so that they could keep the first one. I negotiated a slightly better price and made a second one. I think it is such a funny thing, and kind of strange, but we are planning to use the money I made for something fun. I bought the Lego guys off of Amazon ($6 a piece), used the ribbons and lace from my ribbon drawer and lace collection, and made $45 off of the two garters. Not too shabby! I almost didn't post about it because it's so weird, and kind of embarrassing. I mean, it's essentially a piece of lingerie. That I made. For someone's wedding. But, it's a funny story from my life - so there you have it. If someone ever needs something completely crazy sewn, I guess I'm the girl to do it.