i am in a good mood today. despite the fact that i desperately need to get my butt in gear on the whole 'spring cleaning'. AND despite the fact that my weight loss has stalled. but i will continue to eat well and hope that it will get going again.

today we went to the YMCA and i spent too much money rejoining. but i think it will be worth it. the kids were wicked excited to be back there and they have a zumba class that i am pretending that i will sign up for.

swimming was the awesomest. even though june seemed mortified at first. i guess she forgot that she was getting to be a quite fantastic swimmer last year at lisa's. or maybe it was the gigantic children freakin' out all around her. either way, she found her comfort zone fairly quickly and all in all i would say it was a success.

post pseudo workout we headed to, ahem, pizza hut and the kids enjoyed some cheese pizza and soda-except for Reese Oliver, who opted for water. i love him. i learned that he is relentlessly teased at school by a pack of overfed girls. (is that mean to say?) anyways-apparently they have been chanting, 'reeses pieces buttercup don't mess with me or i'll beat your butt.' he doesn't seem to upset, but i don't know. we joked about how they must not be very bright, because their 'battle cry doesn't even rhyme'. i explained that it was relatively likely that these girls like him. which i can see as he is sorta just naturally cool...

as we were leaving the madness that was pizza hut the woman behind me was kind enough to take the time to tell me that i had the most wonderful children. which, i didn't know what to say...i usually make a joke or say something silly-compliments of any sort sorta make me squirmy, but as i looked at my children who were stacking plates, helping june with her coat and then looked around the room at the other children, one of which was standing on his chair and who's cohort across the room was trying to dislodge his pizza slice from under some elderly womans chair-the screaming the crying the running-it all hit me. my kids are awesome. a touch goofy ONCE in a while, but i was stoked to load them into the van-not the other crazed and probably medicated kids that were by the looks of things in the beginning stages of mutiny. i am one lucky lady...i need to remember that when the little things go wrong. anyways, for once, i just sorta smiled and made a general sweep of the room with my eyes and said thank you, to which she nodded knowingly.

i am off to dry our suits so we can swim again tomorrow!