My apologies for the total lack of pictures in this post. Picasa and I are having a bit of a fist fight right now – we’ll see how long this continues. I’ll hopefully post the pictures I’d been planning to post here in a day or two when something on this stupid computer behaves for me.

Today…

Outside my window: it looks to be a fairly lovely day. It was frigidy cold this morning when I went out for my morning “run” aka gasping hobbled semi-jogging stint. Sunday morning my husband and I decided to start waking up at the ridiculous wee hours so we could each take a turn going for a run. Which means he’ll be even skinnier in a couple of weeks and well, here’s hoping some good comes out of it for me, too. Right now I’m doing “interval training” where I walk for a bit then run for a bit, and so on. Mainly because I can apparently only run for about 30 seconds at a time before nearly collapsing. So sad.

I am reading: Never Tell Our Business to Strangers by Jennifer Mascia which I’m reading to review at Mommas Review next week. I think I’ll even make that deadline as I appear to be reading at a good pace. This time next week I might be able to pick up Eat, Pray, Love again and continue reading about her time in India and so forth.

In the kitchen:

• Monday: Spaghetti with jarred sauce and garlic bread
• Tuesday: Mexican Rice Bowls
• Wednesday: French Onion Soup
• Thursday: Breakfast For Dinner: Pancakes probably
• Friday: Fish and couscous with mixed veggies

I am really excited about: MM’s birthday party in two weeks. Friday morning Dan and I went shopping for his present and party supplies while he was at his YMCA class. I’m very much torn between trying to keep it simple and inexpensive but also incredibly memorable and awesomely fun. I might actually pull that off.

I really want to make: something lemon-ish like these creamy lemon crumb squares from the Pioneer Woman or this Lemon Curd Tart by Patent and the Pantry; or some vegan chocolate ice cream like this recipe at The Messy Vegetarian Cook.

This weekend we: took the kiddos on a day trip to Milwaukee Friday afternoon. We went to the adorable children’s museum (very decent admission price for a very awesome museum) and had lunch at The Safe House which was just too too much fun.

We also: rearranged furniture in our living room so that my desk is now next to Dan’s on the wall so I can use wired Internet instead of wireless. Sadly it’s still running slow (I think my computer is possessed) but I like the layout better – it’s much more open – so even if this doesn’t end up fixing the many problems of Jen’s Sad iMac, we got something out of the three hours of labor that went into moving everything.

Some other links I think you should click:

• Traveling Tips For Children: Flying Domestically at Simply Modern Mom
• Babywearing… at Happy Bambino’s Blog
• Tiana’s Famous Beignets from The Princess and the Frog at An Island Life
• Weed Out The Clothes You Don’t Wear With This Simple Hanger Trick from Lifehacker
• Babies trailer from Kottke (this documentary looks awesome and I totally added it to my Netflix queue)

One last thing I want to tell you about before I go: I got my DS!! The tax money came and as promised Dan let me get my little DS Lite and a couple of games. We got Scribblenauts which is so cute and fun and Dan is hooked on it (whose DS is it anyway?) and Professor Layton and the Curious Village which is my personal favorite. Both get rave reviews everywhere I look. At some point I want to pick up a Harvest Moon game also and maybe Brain Age 2 and Super Mario Bros. for Dan. But not anytime soon as we’re cheap (sometimes).