I typically write two blog posts a month and with my last post being three weeks ago, I’ve been feeling like I’m overdue.  I haven’t had much out of the ordinary to write about.  Our weekends have been pretty ordinary….those cold winter days don’t make me want to do too many of the fun outdoor activities on our standing “to do” list.  Instead, we have been content going to the gym weekend mornings and spending a few hours most weekend days doing “homework”, primarily activities centered around sight words. With the school day being so long and the few hours each night being so short, having the weekend as an opportunity to catch up is appreciated. But realizing we could use a little something to spice up the weekends and realizing the official dates in which the girls were turning 5 1/2 and 3 1/2 were coming up, we decided we would celebrate half birthdays.  Avery and Emerson’s was last Saturday and we celebrated with an ice-cream sandwhich purchased from Trader Joe’s earlier that day.  Harper’s was today and we celebrated with pancakes for breakfast and mini ice-cream cones for dessert.  And we have already sang Happy Half Birthday to Harper three times today!  She is feeling quite special today! Ironically Harper’s half birthday falls on the anniversary that Justin and I started dating (16 years today!).  We never realized it because I guess we don’t celebrate half birthday’s very often…but this year we did and it was great to break up the ordinary!