So I just didn't have it in me to do it up for AFD today. I usually LOVE AFD. But the idea of tricking the kids by in any way getting their hopes up about anything or just confusing them in any way wasn't appealing, because life is already so confusing. But N really wanted me to do something for AFD so at one point when he wasn't paying attention I went upstairs and M and I did a bunch of things to his room, like:

• made a pillow pet pyramid
• changed his clock
• turned his piles of library books upside down
• moved the calendar to august
• did his baseball post-season helmet thing so that the World Series was BAL -SD
• swapped the pullups with the underwear
• hung a monkey from the lamp
• etc.

M messed with his bathroom and then before he took a shower I sprayed shaving cream into a smiley face on the wall.

He was very appreciative, which just broke my heart.

He and Grampy did a "name the presidents" challenge tonight where they took turns naming presidents in order. So cute.

A had a ton of work to do and got it done! (Including an English paper.) M goes back to school tomorrow. She made delicious, huge ch ch cookies today.

Ok gotta go to bed. Today is the 3rd anniversary of the girls' bat mitzvah!