So one of your children disappears on you...

...and it's the mischevious one, the one you just know is somewhere creating a disaster beyond the bounds of your imagination. This one's been cutting second year molars and had a cold and has generally been quite the handful. So you prepare yourself for the worst and start looking, and you come across this:



Yep, that's mommy's favorite little demon, fast asleep...and that's Tinkerbell giving me a very stern "Don't you DARE wake that child with that camera! Do you have any idea how long it took me to get her to stop strangling me and go to sleep!?!" look. I almost felt guilty for expecting to find her waist deep in maxi pads again. Almost.

I finally found an Easter dress for Claudia. Nadine's easy to shop for, but too many Easter dresses are too super duper girly for Claudia. Simple things work well for her, so that means quite a bit of hunting any time we want to buy her a dress. I even found them both shoes that were on clearance! I love to find good stuff super cheap for the girls.

We're planning on Dean taking the Easter pics of the girls out at Emerald Mound. It's always beautiful out there, and Dean has a great eye for photography. I finally talked him into taking more pics of the girls; I hate those "propped up in front of background" shots you get at portrait studios. I just think they are such a waste of money and would rather have my candid pics and Dean taking their "official" portraits. I'm still madly in love with the first Easter pics he did with Nadine, and I'm hoping that these pics will encourage him to take over the portraits full time. We're taking Jasmine, too, because we want to get some pics of the girls with her as a tiny puppy. That's one thing I don't have of the dog I grew up with, and I'd like my girls to have some.

I started Weight Watchers last week...online, not the meetings. I saw how well Momma was doing on it and decided to give it a try. I lost 5.8 pounds my first week and all I can say is it's easy, you can cook this way and serve it to your kids, and it WORKS. I'm very excited, and Dean has decided to start eating better as well. I can't do diets with these huge lists of what you can never eat again; I'm just not wired that way. I like the points system and how you can have that little sliver of cake if that's what you're craving and not blow the whole diet or feel guilty. I'm really, really falling in love. The only downside is that now I get to spend my spring break cleaning the junk out of that massive pantry Dean built me...

I'm incredibly blessed to have the husband, children, and life that I do...even if it's crazy hectic and there's always something waiting to be done. We have a lot of love in our little family, and there's nothing better than that.