Life in the Heald house: Shew, it's been a while

I sat down at the beginning of 2011 and made a lots of lists- house chores, kid related things, workout schedules, family events - and I promise blogging was on there. Clearly, I'm already behind by February. Sigh. That is the way life goes, right? Part of my motto for this year is "be flexible". Time management/accomplishing tasks as a mom is so much harder than I ever imagined before I had children. We want our girls to know they are our priority, I want Jared to know that he is a priority, and, let's be honest, I need some of my own time. Since there are only 24 hours in a day and we all require sleep there is not enough time to do it all. I spent most of last year always frustrated about what wasn't getting done and I was often grumpy. I am going to spend 2011 trying to work on better ways to manage my time and, at the end of the day, focusing on what gets done. I saw this quote on one of my favorite blogs last week -

"Give yourself credit for finding Lego Man's hair. Little acts of caring matter more to your kids than getting through your to-do list." Ann Pleshette Murphy

So, I am going to keep blogging but it may be after dinner, before laundry and during bathtime...all while I make sure that the little mermaids in the tub have their favorite bubbles.

For now, here are some random pictures from the past few weeks -

We tried some rutabaga fries. Yuck. Stick with normal potatoes!

Jared's office gave the attorneys IPads. Jared hates it because it means they expect him to be working even more from out of the office than he already does. The girls LOVE the games!

We've done a lot of dancing.

Monkey Kim, one of my best friends, came to hang out for the day. She had the girls doing yoga while I made lunch.

We tried to learn to share the Elmo bed. It didn't work well!

I took HK to a new play place and put her on a treadmill. I was hoping she'd burn off some extra energy and not climb everything at home. That was a total FAIL!