No napping, friend dates and self-portraits

My children didn't nap both yesterday and today.

I hope this is not the start of a new phase because their parents really need time to rest!!!

And they are just much more pleasant when they've had a little rest.

Do your kids still nap? At what times?

Yesterday we put them down a little bit early because we had friends over for lunch and we wanted agreeable kids. Well, the napping didn't work but thankfully, the kids were really into our friends and their girls so they were fairly well behaved.

We had a truly wonderful time with them - it was strangely relaxing even with 4 two-year-olds running around and we had time to connect and, as my friend said, fill our (love) tanks.

Kendra asked hopefully, "is Aunty R coming again tomorrow?"  :)

It must also be said that Nester being here was a huge part of the relaxation because we don't have a dishwasher (I'm trying to convince D that he needs one!) and it was lovely to have a mostly clean kitchen at the end of the afternoon.

So after all that Easter drama at church, we had 3 Sundays - one Sunday we took them to the family room, one Sunday we took them back to the new class and then there was today.

The entire morning Connor kept checking if they were going to go to "the other class" or "Lizzie and Thembi's class" and we said they could go to the other class. I hate breaking rules but I can't stand that screaming more so my not 3-year-olds are in the 3 - 4 class at church. That means no one helps them to go to the loo and they don't get fed. In the other class, the ladies would feed my kids a snack and of course, change nappies.

But the screaming....

We were all set so I walked them into the class and this time KENDRA freaked out and started sobbing uncontrollably. I couldn't seem to console her - she just wanted me to stay. I only get one session of church a weekend and I NEED the Word so I said, "absolutely not, Kendra" which set her off on a whole new level. This freaked Connor out so he started wailing too.

At first I laughed (mother of the year) but then I actually had a little brainwave (D said it was NOT a good idea). I said, "okay babies, let me call Daddy to come see you". At that, they both stopped crying and off I went.

D did go peek into the classroom and they were sitting quietly and listening to the teacher so he left again. And of course, they were fine when we went to get them after church.

I really thought after our first SEVEN weeks of crying we'd be done with this crying forever.............

But I'm glad I didn't give in to the kids as the message was EXCELLENT and I heard something I really needed to hear.

I love this pic!

Then on my list for this weekend I had to sort out the Sabie pics and upload more to the Superhero group on Flickr.

The uploading is happening as I type this and I went down from 669 to 439 pics. Yessss!

Still a crazy lot and actually about 100 of those were me playing with things I'd learnt on Superhero Photo.

This week is self-portraits so obviously I've taken a shadow pic already and I take pics in mirrors all the time (terrible ones but I do them to torture myself obviously!) but let me tell you, it is HARD.

Well, it's hard to get good ones where you don't look like a dork.

But I've been playing and playing and I finally got some I like (I look stupid in them because I'm being silly but I like them). Can't wait to show you next week - this week I have to talk about week 3.

So that's me - a very full and fulfilling weekend :)

How was your weekend? Did you take any interesting pics?

PS I must say, this course is forcing me to do different things. This afternoon I was on my back on the grass in my garden (a non-marcia thing to do) because I had to get a pic of my feet against the sky :) Please join in - you will LOVE it!

PPS Exactly 3 months til my birthday - I need to look at that list!