do you still blog?

i don't know. there's been a lot going on. and nothing, like sometimes happens. but it's all felt like too much to write about or adequately explain, so i've just been taking a little hiatus. i guess. but i'm still here, and i do plan to keep writing...

this past weekend we had spring weather and it was amazing. warm and breezy and sunny. we rode bikes and spent a ton of time outside.

the kids were really into valentine's day this year - my parents sent them some adorable cookies and they spent many hours sorting through their classroom valentines and trinkets all over the floor in their room. v-day isn't really my thing, but we made a pretty legit dinner on sunday night - filet, lobster tail, grilled potatoes, roasted broccoli, and smothered mushrooms. yes please.

hollis has been very three lately. so many feelings. so many tantrums. he loses it at least once a day, usually during transitions (to and from school, bedtime). we're working on a few different tactics to help him (and us) through this intensity...to varying degrees of success. the other day he was flipping out about something and i was like "i'm going to walk away before i lose my temper". he was like "where is your temper? ", so we had a talk about tempers and expressing our feelings in constructive ways. so a day or two later, he was starting to get upset and he busts out with "i'm about to lose my temperature!". he's such a rat but man, i love that kid.