School...?

So...I am curious...how many of you are putting your 2004 babies into kindergarten this year? I am not. In both Washington and Idaho the cutoff is September 1st for the kids to turn 5...Lizzy won't be 5 until the 13th. I am actually thrilled to have her home for another year. I think it will be better to keep her another year so she will always be one of the oldest and biggest kids in her class. I am not in any hurry to have her get big, and I figure this is a simple way for me to keep her little another year!!! On the flip side my little Allie will be starting just after her 5th birthday since she was born at the end of July so even though the girls are three years apart age wise, they will only be two years apart in school. I am a little worried about it because she is so little...I hope she has a major growth spurt over the next few years, otherwise it will be tough for her. Right now she is nearly 18months old and she is just now in an 18month size of clothes. They are actually big on her. Her last doctor visit she was in the <5% class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">category for her age. It's strange because Lizzy has always been tall and fallen somewhere in the middle for weight. I am still amazed how two children from the same parents can be so radically different...both in appearance and personality.

I didn't make any resolutions either. I never have and most likely never will. I can totally relate about the guilt issues though Amy. I have a lot of self-inflicted guilt for working and being away from my kids and Eli is the guilt-master. He has a knack for saying things to make me feel extremely guilty. I don't even think he realizes he is doing it most of the time. Last night we were picking up the house and I casually mentioned I would be attending a baby shower on Saturday for one of my co-workers and I was going to leave the girls with my parents for a couple of hours. His response was..."you sure don't care much about the kids anymore, do you?" Apparently, since I am not spending every minute of my weekend with the girls that means I do not love my children. He knows that isn't true, but he just spouts off his big mouth about stuff like that all the time without realizing how bad it makes me feel. I asked him later why he said that and why he says those things to me at all and he said that he was just mad because I am taking time to attend her baby shower when she didn't come to my baby shower. Technically he was mad at her and not me, but he thought that by making me feel guilty it would cause me to not go. Instead it made me cry and question my use of free time. It's totally ridiculous.

It's raining here today and it's supposed to be in the low 40's by the end of the week...they are really worried about serious flooding. We got 5 feet of total snow in December and now it's raining and melting...not a good combination.