Tired

Ladies and gentlemen, I am tired. So tired. My brain feels foggy, so I'm going to need to get right to the pictures from our week to jog my memory of what we've been up to:

^^We spent Friday afternoon at the Dinosaur Museum. The kids had so much fun--Alice loved dressing up as a dinosaur and running up and down the ramps. Jack loved the computer games. I do think it's a little annoying when a kid's museum that has so many other fun things for kids to do plops video games into the mix. It's like, ok my kid could've done that at home. If the video games weren't there, Jack would've been having a blast playing with Alice and digging in the sand zones, but instead he mostly pined after this random game. Oh well, still had a great time. 

^^We went to my parents' one afternoon and the kids had the coziest quintessential grandparent afternoon making cookies,  playing games, reading books. 

^^Alice in her happy place. I need to buy more box mixes. Alice wants to mix something up at least once a day, and if it's not a legit cornbread mix or something like that, then she wants to invent a recipe herself and that rarely ends well. I could start making daily breads from scratch, but neither of us has the attention span for that at this time.

^^Spending the morning at Aunt Babby's house playing with Aspen and bb Ellie. Looking back, we were out of the house "surviving" a lot this week. And we really needed that. Everyday life feels intense right now. It feels like life keeps going faster and I can't keep up, and again, it just leaves me feeling tired. I feel like I'm going to go shooting off the edge of the treadmill of life if I can't find the "slow down" button very soon. And we don't even have a ton going on. Just playing catch up after our move and dealing with lots of chronically grumpy attitudes. Is there a planet in retrograde or something?

^^Alice waking up in a rare happy mood after an afternoon nap--surely she sensed that Grandma and Grandpa were in the house.

^^My parents came for dinner on Saturday, and as the evening wound down Alice became increasingly grumpy. When Grandma and Grandpa were getting ready to leave, Alice insisted that she wanted to go home with them. Curious how this would play out since she is pretty attached to me, we let her get in the car with them and do a lap around the block before they dropped her back off with us. She was apparently so happy to have that one-on-one time with them in the car and came back home SO happy. It was cute and funny and I think she just needed a break from her family for a second. We've all been there.

^^Sunday dinner buddy.