Birthday, Nail polish, eating off the floor

• Today is my beautiful Princess's second birthday!  She's the absolute best thing. She's so smart and articulate and fun, and her personality is just the best thing ever.
• She also was NOT cool with us singing Happy Birthday to her this morning. The Bug and I have been singing it off and on to ease her into it more before her actual party tomorrow.
• School is off to an ok start. He's not resisting going or getting up or going to bed, but man he HATES the required nightly reading.  I blame the books- books on his reading level are mindnumbingly boring. I can't wait for him to be able to read something he can actually enjoy.
• I have a slight obsession with nail polish. I love having painted nails but it never lasts more than 24 hours before it's all chipped. The other night I bought some super cheap polish at Walmart and put on two coats. ( Sinful Colors Professional Nail Polish Enamel 152 Cream Pink) The next morning I added a layer of Sally Hansen Double Duty Base and Top Coat, and I'll be darned but now we're on day three with NO chips- and I've done laundry, mopped floors, taken showers, had date night... What I'm saying is, I've apparently found the miracle combination. I went back and bought a bunch more colors (steel gray, pale sparkly pink, a muddy taupe and red red.)
• Speaking of mopping- you know how the internet says that when you clean with toddlers around you should just give them a rag and let them "help"? HAHAHA, Internet, you make me laugh.  I gave them all a rag and made them stay in the kitchen with them while I mopped. I ended up "mopping" the rest of the dining areas and hall with the dirty mop water they used the "clean" the kitchen. Two buckets worth. The kitchen had waves it was so deep. So the floors look better, and it smelled clean, but please, do not eat off my floors.

What I Read This Week (it was a week of reading around here, but even so remember that I read multiple books at one time, and only read one of these start to finish in the week):

• Dinner: A Love Story: It all begins at the family table by Jenny Rosenstrach. . I finished this one and loved it completely. I marked FOURTEEN recipes to try before I have to return it to the library.
• The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby Frank L. Baun. Finished, review already written for Monday.
• Fantasy in Death by J. D. Robb. Finished this one too.
• Jewels of the Sun: The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy (Irish Trilogy, Book 1) by Nora Roberts. At the urging of a non-blogging friend. Finished it up in a day or so, went out to find the next two. It's not perfect, but it was enjoyable, and sexy.
• Heart of the Sea (Irish Trilogy, Book 3) by Nora Roberts. Yep, skipped book two, it was checked out. Only a couple chapters in.
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Now there's a transition, Nora Roberts to The Handmaid's Tale. Only a couple chapters in, this is a reread from high school, but WOW it's powerful, is it not?
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  Wonderby R. J. Palacio. Maybe 1/3 done? So far it's every bit as well done as the reviews suggest.