Yes, I know, it looks like I am not writing all that much, but really, I am writing more. We had a long weekend this week and when I say long, I mean OMG we just spent 2 weeks together as a family and I am not sure we will survive having to do this again for 4 days. We did a trip to the Museum of Science on Friday. Our town seems to think that having school on MLKJr. Weekend is a tragedy, so we get a half day on Thursday and a day off on Friday in addition to Monday. I had the kids go to the town rec center in the morning on Friday and then we met a friend at the Museum of Science in Boston. Fortunately, it was not a terrible madhouse. Most schools had classes in session. We were specifically there for the Harry Potter exhibit. My children have gotten into this in a serious way and it is quite frustrating to spent $23 a kid to go see the exhibit. It was nice and cool to see all of the costumes and props. It was well done, but…but… it doesn’t belong in a science museum. If they had bothered to explain HOW they make Wizard photographs. Or HOW they make Hagrid look so big, or, my personal favorite, how they film Harry riding a broom, then I could see a science connection. The Science of special effects. That’s all they needed to add in. They didn’t. It was a wonderful display of costumes and props and such.

We did have an exciting weekend, however, even with my lack of science love. Soleil had a hockey game bright and early at 6 am Saturday. Then Luna had her ice skating competition. She won first place out of two again! Way to go girl! Again we had some grumblings from Soleil because she never gets a medal for her stuff, but we are stressing the importance of being herself.

As a family, we actually do a great job, but we do need to start getting some of our crap together. For example, dinners. The girls are very picky. We started the "here, have PB&J if you don’t like what we are eating" and it happens often. I have decided that we, as a family, have to start expanding the dinner options. I want to list some of our favorite foods and create dinners that the girls will try if not eat. I want to have healthy options if they don’t like what we are having, but they have to be easy for the girls to get themselves.

And bedtime has been a nightmare. Ok, let’s not beat around the bush, sleep has been hell in our household since day 1. When Soleil first slept through the night for more than 1 night , it was when she was almost 3. She often won’t go to bed until she’s been snuggled several times. We need this to stop. I need my time, Jay needs together time… sigh…

So my goals are to start working on these issues. Move ahead slowly… slowly, but surely.

And just for your eye candy, check out these photos of Luna skating!

Soleil bought the flowers!