i'm absolutely buried under grading, a ramped up chocolate schedule, play dates, wedding stuff (amanda's!) and life in general. this is a good kind of busy.
the business has taken off in unimaginable ways. sometimes i look at ben and wonder how the hell we got from there to here. i still don't know (though i know we couldn't have without dad and jen). my dad has sold so many new wholesale accounts that we're having to stop taking new ones until we get used to this pace. we don't want to over-extend ourselves. (we're in four wine stores/wineries, three coffee shops, two grocery stores (one a chain of six), a toy store and somewhere else that i'm forgetting...).
things are settled once again on the bk front. he generally sees them once a week, sometimes twice, sometimes not at all. he's decided to move out of his parents' house which is good news because he'll be closer and able to take the kids to his house instead of coming and keeping them here at our house (therefore displacing d and i for the evening). i've gotten him to commit to paying for half of summer camp for parker and though it's taking a while he is giving me the money bit by bit.
lorenzo has a girlfriend in preschool. it's ridiculously cute how smitten he is with her. 'mama, can i bring this flower to blonde kyra?' 'mama, do you think blonde kira will love this picture i drew for her?' every tuesday and thursday he comes prepared with a little gift and presents it to her enthusiastically. they hug for extended periods of time. :)