Today is Easter, or in spanish, “Dia de Poner Peso.”¹ We hid jelly beans around the house, which Anna found and promptly ate within 37 seconds after waking up this morning. Even Bear had her own easter basket. The jelly beans didn’t look particularly safe to give to a one-year-old, so Tara absolutely crushed a Peep instead.

I went on a cooking tear this morning, making a fresh spinach and mushroom omelette for breakfast, chicken soup for dinner, and a chocolate souffle for dessert. I’ve never made a souffle before, but I make merengue like nobody’s business, so I suspect it will turn out fine. This morning I also bought a computer online, which should probably arrive while Jennifer is gone. My current computer is three years old, and it just can’t keep up with the demands of processing the images out of my camera. The new one is a dual-core pentium with two gigs of RAM. I’m hoping for a 3x speedup over my current machine. I also have a new tripod head in the mail which will replace the two lame ones I already have. I always regret going cheap on my gear.

After the kids wake up from nap, I’m going to take both of their monthly pictures, both way late.

For the last couple days, we have been working on planning out the next couple months of mayhem. Next week, Auntie K. and Uncle T. are going to visit, followed by Jennifer going to Singapore for a week and a half, leaving me with both girls, a bunch of appointments, and a fairly busy time at work. Also, we will have Anna’s birthday, Mother’s day, our eleventh anniversary, a trip to Disneyland, and a joint party for Anna and her buddy K. coming up by the time June rolls around. In June there are sure to be a bunch of birthday parties in addition to my birthday and Father’s Day and a trip to the midwest. I shudder to think of the the weekend last summer when we attended four of the six birthday parties to which we were invited. We’re not doing that this summer.

At the moment I’m enjoying a little bit of the calm before the storm, though I suspect I’ll see Jennifer gaining speed and flying around the house getting ready for her trip.

¹ Day of Gaining Weight