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Wore a denim jacket today, and it was too much! It was almost 60 today! Woo hooooooo! Sorry I wasn’t here to write long paragraphs of important and tremendously funny stuff, but did you really think I was going to hang out in front of my computer today?

Actually, I had to go out to buy junior a spring jacket at Target. This whole having to dress a kid thing just doesn’t get easier. You’d think after 5 years it would occur to me that he’s not necessarily going to fit in last year’s stuff. Duh. Anyway, he’s all set, and we also picked up two pair of shorts, so if we have a freak heat wave like last year (remember, it was 90 degrees in May?) I’ll actually have clothes for him. I haven’t gone through all his summer clothes from last year but I know some of it will end up in the donation pile. Oh, and we have the official Red Sox shirt of the season. VERY cute. So I think I’ve spent enough on him for one weekend, thankyouverymuch.

IE crashed and I totally lost everything I was in the middle of writing here. I hate that more that I can possibly express to you. I don’t even remember everything I wrote here. I hate that even more.

It was good. It was amusing. I remember that much. I don’t know if it would have won me any awards, but I’m not in it for that. Well, okay, I am, but I’m also pretending to be modest.

Let’s see. I think I was talking about how tomorrow it’s going to hit 50, and then 60 on Monday, and 50 again on Tuesday, then I was claiming I was willing to do yardwork. But see, there’s still a foot of snow in the yard, so my claiming I would do it can’t be proved. You are just going to have to take my word for it. Instead, we can’t even go to the playground right now. So we and every other family in New England will be trying to figure out how to be outside enjoying the warmth without leaving paved areas. Or walking in the huge puddles formed by the melting snow. Feel free to post your ideas in the comments section.

As a follow-up to yesterday’s invisible friends entry, I was poking around the tv listings in the TiVo and decided to record The Banana Splits. Guess who is now watching it for the 2nd time this morning? The splits themselves get a big thumbs up, the Arabian Nights cartoon somewhat of a thumbs up (hey, it involved flying water casks and a magic donkey, what more do you want?). But he didn’t like Danger Island (uh oh, Chango!) which is probably because that’s serialized, you jump right into the middle of a story, and the story was the guys all being captured by the skeleton people, who looked a little scary. I just might have to grab a few more episodes for him…it’s a good way to form the boy in my own image, eh?

It’s so odd. Now that Junior spends all day Friday with me (after his swim lesson I don’t bring him to daycare) it always feels like Saturday. Compound that with the fact that we go to my parents’ house to play with my sister and her kids and if really does feel like the weekend. I am all for 3 day weekends. Bring ’em on.

A lot of people’s kids have imaginary friends. I did when I was very little. I actually remember her, to some extent. Her name was Deebee. She was my friend when I was still an only child. Then my sister came along, and my parents, for whatever reason (maybe dad will comment on this, I know he’s reading it) decided to name her Debra, aka Debbie. Get it? Deebee? Debbie? Deebee disappeared at that point. I guess the new little person in our house was more interesting. It’s hard to say, I wasn’t even three yet when all this happened.

Well Junior has an invisible friend too (who only comes out at random times, and he’s not a trouble maker – I don’t have to set a place for him at the table, but I do have to sometimes call down to him to make sure he comes up for bed.) Today Junior makes an announcement…Jim has some friends visiting. And they like it here so much that they’re moving in.

“How many people are there?”

“Ten boys and two girls.”

Oy vey, this kid kills me. So now I have 12 invisible people living in my house, but luckily they drive themselves wherever they need to go. Oh, and they have names. Ready? Tammy, Marsha, Jim, Joshua, Fred, Freddie, Anthony, Jeff, Murray, Greg, Allen and Little Critter. (Anthony, Jeff, Murray, and Greg are the Wiggles and Little Critter is from the Mercer Mayer books – we own almost all of them.) Which made me remember something else…when I was only a little older than Junior is now, I used to pretend that I was having adventures with the cast of HR Pufnstuf and the Bugaloos…so I can understand why the Wiggles are living in our house. Jimmy, Freddie the Flute, Harmony, Joy, Courage and IQ used to live at my mom’s house.

Junior swam from one side of the pool to the other ALL by himself today! I’m so proud of him! He and one other boy in the class are really making great strides. It’s so interesting to watch the progress from week to week. It makes me wish he was having more than one lesson a week, but this works out well for us.

It’s SO hot in the pool area. I hate just sitting there and sweating. It makes me want to jump in the pool, that’s for sure.