1. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what my ideal work schedule is and how to get to that schedule. I’d like to stop working by 3pm each day so that Eleanor (and our future children) will never need after school care. I think I can make that happen by the start of the new year. I’m pretty excited about the idea. It’s not something I had growing up, but I want it for my kids.

2. We’ve been making our own pizza at home. But with pre-made whole wheat dough from Trader Joe’s, I’m not ambitious enough yet to make my own dough. And I have to say that our pizza is really, really good! Much better, and much, much less expensive than the place we order from!

3. It’s birthday season. We’ve been to a few parties for Eleanor’s preschool classmates recently, we have another this weekend. Here’s a couple shots from last weekend’s party at an indoor play place with inflatable slides and bounce houses:

4. I went out to dinner with my BFF, Andrew, this week. We had margaritas the size of our heads. Next time I will ask what they mean by “the big one,” because what they consider “big” is what I would call enormous!