on wednesday

Too! Much! To Write About! Flights are booked to Greece (March 11-May 6), Steve's team got a big win for themselves last Saturday, my Valentine spoiled me with beautiful flowers on Friday, the weekend of coaching went well, the Brinkmans are coming to visit this weekend, I'm coaching all day Saturday, we've been watching some Olympics, Hendrik can say the alphabet in French, and I just got the kids in bed in less than 20 minutes, after a late-ish practice for the club team I'm coaching this weekend. And I played women's league last night and it was so super fun, even though we lost in five sets and I didn't get home until 11:00. PM. My downstairs neighbors watch les enfants, and I am tired. Is this the reality of having little kids? On your own? Oui ma cherie, oui...

I also have a zillion - okay, maybe not a zillion but it feels like a zillion - tabs open. In multiple browsers, and here they are:

• The Questions That Will Save Your Relationships (HuffPost article - yet to read)
•  The How Are You? Culture Clash (NewYorkTimes article - yet to read)
• An Antidote for Mindlessness (New Yorker - yet to read)
• ALA Online Learning
• Smashball: A Cool New Youth Volleyball Experience 
• 15 Reasons We Absolutely Have to Keep Books Alive
• Cabin Porn 
• Panachaiki FC Wikipedia page (Steve's club in Greece)
• Raymond Briggs Wikipedia page
• Perfectly Flawed: [Lionel Shriver] explores the appeal of the unappealing (Financial Times)
• LOVE: Lost and Found on Craigslist (love this!!)
• The 13 Best Children's, Illustrated and Picture Books of 2013
  (I could read about books all day - I could have a zillion zillion tabs open about books... but when would I read all of the tabs? And how to get to all of the books?)
• The Isaac Foundation: Running Events
• Dad on School Run Can't Stop Laughing at Pupils Slipping on Ice 
• Western MLIS 

Here are a few photos from today, yesterday, and the days just before. I'm due for a 15-minute-a-day post - maybe I can remember to sleep with the camera beside me so I can catch the beauty of being woken early by these adorable early-risers.....