It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

So far, for the past 3 days, the weather reports have been wrong. We've been supposed to have gloomy, cloudy, cold days in the low to mid 40's. Instead we've had beautiful, sunny, warmish days in the low to mid 50's. Hooray! Weather report says it's only supposed to be 35 tomorrow. I hope it's wrong again.

I am currently about at my wit's end trying to find white shoes for Alison to wear for Easter. I guess that's what I get for waiting until a week before Easter to get serious about finding them. I've been looking sporadically for a few weeks, but we did some serious shopping this morning. I've found several pairs that I liked, but they were either too big or too small or too wide. I found another pair that fit, but the only pair in her size were hot pink, which will not go with her Easter dress --or any other dress that she has right now either. So I did some searching around online and found the perfect shoes at Stride Rite. Unfortunately they are $25. I hate spending more money on shoes that Alison will only wear to church on Sundays than I am willing to spend on my own shoes, but I'm desperate. I have to see if my local store even has these shoes in stock in her size. Someone say a prayer that they do, otherwise Alison is going to church shoeless next week.

Alison has been sleeping well the past few nights. I'm so relieved. With daylight savings time starting tonight, I was worried that she would be even more sleep deprived than she already was.

We're going to take Alison to get her picture taken with the Easter Bunny tonight after dinner, so I hope she's in a good mood. She wasn't exactly thrilled with Santa when she got his picture taken with him, but we did manage to get her to smile. I hope we're that fortunate tonight. They're having pet day with the Easter Bunny tomorrow and it would be fun to take Bo and get a picture with the two of them with the Easter Bunny, but it falls during nap time and the rush to get read for youth group, so it's not going to happen.

--Weekly weight loss update--
I have now lost 21 pounds. I have also lost 4 1/2 inches off my waist and 5 inches off my hips. Yay me! I'm going to go out and celebrate by having having a Strawberry Shortcake at Ruby Tuesday. (Actually I was going to have one regardless, but it's nice to have something to celebrate, and I will be splitting it with Kevin and Alison.)