Growing Up Too Fast

The other night Marielle and I were sitting on the couch watching a movie. At one point she turned to me with the saddest little expression on her face and said in the saddest little tone,

"Mommy, I don't have a boy to marry."

I was taken a back a little since she is only four and I imagined I would have several years before such things weighed on her mind. I giggled, smiled, and then told her that she had "plenty of time" and needn't worry about that just yet, to which she responded,

"but I want roses and flowers and pretty things..."

The State of Education

No, I'm not in line for this summer's hottest concert tickets. Apparently, this is what part-day preschool registration has come to.

I arrived 40 minutes early even though my inside source said 15 minutes early would be plenty. I'll let you know how it goes.

Pizza Party a Month-a-go-go-go

Have you ever been to a pizza party where you had to make your own food? Marielle and her friends have. For Ellie's fourth birthday, she and her friends donned little chef's hats and got to work making lunch for everyone. From measuring out flour, activating yeast, and kneading dough, to rolling out pizzas, applying pepperoni, and watching them bake, the kids seemed to have a blast at the Young Chef's Academy. Everyone of them ended up with a delicious little pizza, and we followed the whole thing up with more "pizza." And by "pizza" I mean cake.

Sidebar Changes

So Lisa's relatively recent switch from her old to new blog has me wanting to make a few changes on ours. Nothing major, as I'm still a fan of this blogger template even though a lot of people use it.

This week's change is splitting up the links to other blogs and the links to other websites. So folks, the blogs are now listed in order of the most recently updated. I don't want to here about anyone being offended that they're at the bottom of the list. If you want to be tops, you'll have to start posting it up, or accept mediocrity like we have and just continue posting on one month centers ;)