Some random updates

• I'm officially registered for the half-marathon on May 28. Details here. I've been running fairly regularly since January, including hour-long runs on weekends, but now I have to ramp up my training schedule significantly.
• My plan to feed Henry leftover casseroles for lunch fell flat. The Kid was not interested at all. So we're back to the short order cook routine, trying to find something--anything--he'll eat on a given day. Lately I've been playing that classic toddler game known as Hide The Vegetables in the hopes that he will digest some vitamins every now and again. I've had success with pumpkin bread and carrot-zucchini muffins. I've also found that I can hide all manner of things in hamburger, which Prince Hal will usually eat. Spinach, red pepper, wheat germ, egg, carrot--if it can be pureed, it's going in the burger.
• Tom and I have abandoned the vague plans we had to do substantial renovations to this house. We don't plan to stay in this place for long (it's too small), and we're just not convinced it would pay off when it comes time to sell. I've noticed a couple houses on the market in this neighbourhood that are similar to ours in size and have been extensively renovated, with price tags to match. They're been sitting for months. Bottom line, nothing we could do to the kitchen and family room would change the fact that the house is narrow, the layout is limiting and the second floor is a strange collection of cramped rooms with low, sloping ceilings. So we'll restrict our efforts to simple, inexpensive redecorating projects like painting and updating the lighting fixtures rather than tearing out walls and installing new cabinets.