This past month we have had a lot of fun.  For instance, last week I met up with my old High school chum (btw, gilbert blythe died last week, I just thought of that because of the word "chum," and I am seriously still depressed about it. And it makes me feel ancient. And my birthday is next week. which also makes me feel ancient. And our 10 year anniversary is tomorrow, which also makes me feel ancient. And Chloe is getting baptized next month. Which also makes me feel ancient. Bottom line. I feel ancient).  Anyway, it was so fun to catch up with Kristi. She is one of those friends where we can always just pick up where we left off from the last time we saw each other, which was like 2 years ago.

 Macie has been saying some hilarious things lately.  She has been begging me for a week to cut a slit in her Elsa costume so she can look more authentic. So I finally did because I was tired of the incessant begging.  I would like to thank Disney for making a Disney princess with some sex appeal, it really makes my life easier.  When she thought I wasn't watching, she would sing and act out the part in the song that goes, "Here I stand..."  (That would be the part in the song where Elsa stamps her foot and shows off the high slit in her dress).  I am pretty sure this was the main reason she needed the slit in her dress.  So now she can act out the song with more accuracy.  And I sewed the slit a little further down, because it was a little too high.

Also..last night Macie and I were having a little bedtime chat, and she got to talking about dying.  Yes, dying.  Let me tell you just how much I love these conversations.  I love talking about existential thoughts with children.  It is super easy.  I love being asked questions that are extremely depressing and difficult to answer.  Amidst the morbid conversation, she still managed to say something totally hilarious.  "I don't want to die! I don't want to dig a big hole. And put myself in a treasure chest! And then be put in the hole!"  Morbidly hilarious isn't it?  She thinks a casket looks like a treasure chest.  The whole thing is so creepy and funny and I just can't even talk about this anymore.
Later that night, we had moved on, and Chloe was telling us some story she made up about fairies and stuff,  and Chloe recently has been using this phrase "You see..."  I have noticed it for a few months. I have no idea where she got this phrase, but she uses it almost as frequently as she uses the word "and."  As Chloe is telling us this story, she throws in a "you see" and Macie whispers to me, "Mom? Why does Chloe always say 'you see'?"  It really made me laugh.  Only to myself of course. If Macie knew I thought she said something funny unintentionally, she would blow a gasket.

 Chloe had to write a paper on who she would pick for President of the United States. I was flattered that she chose me.  I wasn't her first choice, that would be her cousin Paloma, but I came in a close second.  She said she could only think of 1 reason Paloma would make a good President, but she could think of a few for me.
It reads:
"Would you like to have a really great president? If you do I think you will like my mom. I believe my mom would be the best president.  First she is smart. For example she knows 113+15! Another reason is that she is funny. In fact she sang the song wrong and it made me laugh so hard! Finally she is nice. An example is that she brought straws home for me and macie. All in all that is why I believe my Mom would be the best President."
That Chloe... she is mine.  All mine.  

 In other news, Macie passed a level in her swimming class which means she earned a medal. Awhile back,  Don told her she would earn medals for passing levels, in an effort to improve her attitude towards her swimming lessons.  She said, "shiny medals?"  So the encouragement worked.  Well she finally earned her first medal.  And her reaction was priceless.  She said to me, "Mom...this medal is not so shiny."