This was one crazy weekend. Given that Monday was MLKJr. Day, we had the whole family for the day! For reasons unknown to humanity, our school district gave off  half of Thursday and all of Friday. Oy!

Saturday, the girls went skating while Mommy installed Daddy’s new Elfa closet. (yeah, I’m the detail person in our house). Jay destructed his closet in the morning and I installed it in the afternoon. Then, we had dinner with R, Soleil’s best friend. We left Soleil with R’s parents and went home. Ah, nice and quiet after 9:30. It was almost like not having kids! Imagine what all of the people whose children actually go to sleep can do at nights!

Sunday, back to R’s house after letting Jay sleep in. He was sick, so I did an ichat with my parents, helped Luna paint a box, read the paper…

Sunday afternoon, FOOTBALL! Lots and lots of football. Bummer to the pack fans. I was really pulling for them, but I do respect Eli Manning, so I am happy he is going to the game.

Monday, I let Jay sleep in again and watched cartoons with the girls. The ice rink had an open skate at 11:50, so we went to that. The girls can now skate on their own and go go go! Soleil met a friend from Girl Scouts and they skated together. She even skated backwards so she could talk to her friend! Wow!

Then McDonalds as a treat, a trip out to replace a piece of Jay’s closet that was broken, drop a cable off at a friends…. whew. All Monday I was fighting a migraine. It went from "hey there, can I poke at your temples" to "let’s try to suck your brain out of a 1mm hole in the back of your head" around 4. I went to bed and wanted to die while the girls went swimming. UGH.

But I still had to make a cake. Because it was Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. And you make cakes for people’s birthdays. So we made a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. As I was putting it together (I made two rounds), Soleil asked why I had 2 cakes. I said "Layers….like onions have layers.*" And Soleil immediately replies "Like Shrek has layers too!"

Ah yes, Like Shrek!

Happy Birthday Martin Luther King Jr. Please know that we had a cake for the man who marched so brown people can drink from the same water fountains as the white people. (As described by Soleil)

            * Shrek: For your information, there’s a lot more to ogres than people think.

            Donkey: Example?

Shrek: Example? Okay, er… ogres… are… like onions.

Donkey: [sniffs onion] They stink?

Shrek: Yes…NO!

Donkey: Or they make you cry.

Shrek: No!

Donkey: Oh, you leave them out in the sun and they turn brown and start sproutin’ little white hairs.

Shrek: NO! LAYERS! Onions have layers. OGRES have layers. Onions have layers… you get it. We both have layers.

Donkey: Oh, you both have layers. [pause] You know, not everybody likes onions. [pause] CAKES! Everybody loves cakes! Cakes have layers!

Shrek: [restraining temper] I don’t care… what everyone likes. Ogres. Are not. Like cakes!

Donkey: You know what else everybody likes? Parfaits. Have
you ever met a person, you say, "Let’s get some parfait," they say,
"Hell no, I don’t like no parfait"? Parfaits are delicious.

Shrek: NOOO!!! YOU DENSE, IRRITATING, MINIATURE BEAST OF BURDEN! OGRES ARE LIKE ONIONS! END OF STORY! BYE BYE! [whispers] See you later!

[pause]

Donkey: Parfaits may probably be the most delicious thing on the whole damn planet!

Shrek: You know… I think I preferred you humming…