It's 12:50 am do you know where your spouse is?? Well mine is out clubbing!! No really, he's at a christian club. He's gone the last few weekends after Caleb is in bed. I've taken the time as an opportunity to get things done in a quiet house. Tonight I am doing the last final touches of cleaning to make the house truly ready for our party this Sunday. It's actually worked out well. Dean goes out, and I get to get things done so that when the weekend is truly here all the chores are done and we can both enjoy our time. I kind of wish I had someplace to go on a Friday night by myself, but I wont be bitter about it. Dean needs time to himself and I do get a lot done. But I know if he was home I'd prolly be sleeping, and I'm not sure why I just dont get to bed on time, but I figure if he's up I can be too. Plus I sleep much better once he is home. Something about being safe in the arms of the man I love. I'm only sitting here now waiting for the floors that I just scrubbed to get dry so I can get a drink in the kitchen! I dont know any one as silly as me, scrubbing floors and bathrooms after midnight on a Friday night. Ah the life of a boring sahm w/ a social butterfly of a hubby out and about and a quiet sleeping toddler tucked in in the next room. I find it odd how comforting it is to know that my hubby can be out alone on a Friday night and know for a fact I dont need to worry about him cheating. If I didnt know where he was going I might worry, but knowing he's out w/ a trusting friend in charge of the wonderful youth ministry there helps. Well I think I'm 'bout done the chores for the night, now if I can just keep the kid and hubby from making it all messy again tomorrow....good thing is I am going out in the morning, yard saling, wohoo, and we have dinner plans out of the house. So there wont be much time to mess up the house, but there will also be less time to clean it up if they do happen to be the boys that they are. Good night folks!!

TGIF!! I haven't wished for the weekend as much as I have this one for a while. Not sure why, just looking forward to a long weekend w/ my family. I am exhausted this morning, had slightly raised temp this morning and my eyes were filled w/ goo so I am hoping I am not getting sick. I havent been in a while so it's prolly about time for a good cold! (specially w/ all these goofy weather changes) Just hoping if I get sick it clears up soon or waits til after Sunday to set in.

I made Dean drive himself to work this morning, Caleb didnt wake me up til 8:10, which was sooo nice. He's usually up much earlier, and we have to wake him up to take Dean to work. So it was nice. I really needed some extra sleep, although I think I could use some more. I might just take a nap w/ Caleb today, I havent done that in a while.

Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend. We've got plans for tomorrow and Sunday but nothing tonight or Monday, hoping on Monday to do something family oriented. Did I already say this, TGIF!!! Wohooo!!

I thought rain helped lower the pollen count?? For the last few days my allergies are going bananas!! I wish the rain would wash away whatever it is that is bothering me.

In other non whining news, Caleb is talking away lately. His not so complete list of his vocabulary: store, home, eat, more, Jonah(as in the veggie tales newest movie), Monsters(for Monsters Inc), Elmo, spin, jump, ribbit (w/ a jump added for emphasis of course), out(meaning: up, out, and let me past this darn baby gate mommy!), light, tv, COOKIEEE, Phish (fish), potty, bath, noodles, outside, puppy, cat, juice, bottle, milk, cheese, pizza, crabmeat(he loves the stuff! he is a true seafood lover)...and the list goes on. He can pretty much mimmick any word. He knows that Daddys name is Dean and mommys name is Amy, and of course he knows his name is Caleb. Ah...they grow up sooo fast!

Despite the nagging back pain since I woke up, I've been quite motivated today. A few weeks ago while working on cleaning up the closet in the playroom I discovered that under our basement steps we have tons of storage space. There's rods for hanging clothes and everything. I was so excited but it was also very dirty down there. Since it's a rainy day I let Caleb play while I worked in there, he mostly played at trying to see what I was up to! I got it all cleaned up and moved boxes of stuff that we dont need to get into for a while to that storage spcae. Now dean has more room for his tools and stuff in our back storage space. We've got a cool little nook in the basement w/ shelving and hooks for tools and the like. Until today it's mostly been jammed w/ bins of old stuff. Since we've moved in I've done little by little to rid us of that extra junk. Today I made great strides in getting it out of the way. I am hoping Dean appreciates the space. He hates going down to look for tools and being unable to get past my junk. So now that Calebs napping I'm off to finish up that and my big sanding/ painting project in our basement bathroom. My biggest motivator is our party this Sunday but I dont really care, at this point I knew the project wouldnt be done in time, but at least now it might be easier to have guests downstairs if it rains. Or so by the end of the week I hope things are looking that good down there. Until then, work work work.....geez, I think I do more work than if I had a paying job...

Did I mention I've got my first batch of homemade spaghetti sauce simmering in the crock pot while I work....mmmm! It's a perfect day for a big ol' plate of spaghetti...

While I may agonize over the flaws in our home I will never forget lazy afternoons spent on the deck w/ my family. Today has been great. Caleb painted and played w/ his cars while I enjoyed the new American Baby magazine. Now we are both tinged w/ sunshine, Calebs ears must have taken most of the sun as they are red. His cheeks are pink but not too bad. Me on the other hand, well my arms are quite red, as I purposely sat my chair in the sun so I could watch Caleb so he'd be mostly in the shaded part of the deck. It's a beautiful day. All this sunshine has turned my mood around quite nicely. Just hoping Caleb is all tired out and ready for a nap. The fact he just dropped all my freshly made chocolate cookies on the floor and I found the stinker sitting next to the mess eating one leads me to believe otherwise. I didnt know whether I should spank him or grab the camera. Instead I shoved a cookie in my mouth to keep him from seeing my laugh! He's rotten but so darned cute!!

My main thought for today and how this week is going : sometimes it sucks to be a woman. Am grateful for the sunshine today and yesterday but they say it will be raining starting tomorrow til at least Saturday. We have a cook out planned for Sunday I am praying it clears up in time!! Until them I am dealing with too much stuff right now to think about a rainy party that is a week away.

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When will the storms stop!! The ones outside the window and the ones inside our lives...things are calming down now, although the abrupt change to being a house filled w/ people to just a mommy daddy baby house is hard for Caleb to adjust to. he's been throwing horrible tantrums and he's just not my normal little guy lately. I am sure he sensed something was up last week, this week I think it's just hard for him to not have soo much loving as he did last week. Although I am doing my best to interact w/ him. We spent the morning playing cars , puzzles, painting, coloring, making more and more messes. Meanwhile outside the buckets of rain kept falling and still do. it doesnt help my mood any when I've got a fussy kid and cant take him out to play.

Nothing too exciting going on lately with us. Dean's going to a concert tonight and tomorrow night we are helping w/ nursery at the church plant and Sunday in the nursery at our church. Other than that hopefully helping Caleb adapt to his old schedule, post family and funeral mode. Hope it's sunny in someones side of the world today!!

happy mothers day!!! Miss seeing my mommy today but too much going on around here. Love you mom!!

Pop Pop's legacy

taking a break, sadly to say Dean's granddad passed away this evening. Even more prayers needed as our family deals w/ this loss. He told the nurse he had talked to Jesus and was ready to die. Shortly afterward he just went to sleep, we pray that he is now enjoying his heavenly home. We'll miss you pop pop.

Well I finally had my drs appt, and the great news is I've been off of my bp medicine for a week and a 1/2 and when they checked my pressure it was 120/80 which is normal!! The dr thought maybe the nurse wrote it down wrong so she took it again herself and it was then 126/78, still not too shabby! I was thrilled, not sure what happened to change it, but things are looking good. Still taking lasix for my pseudo tumor until I have my f/u appt at the end of the month w/ the other dr for that. So no more bp medicine!! All that worrying I did and after my body did the initial adjusting to being off the medicine(thus the horrible headaches last week) things are fine. Had my lovely "annual" exam as well to make sure the baby maker is in tip top shape and unless the results come back abnormal then we have the drs ok for trying for baby # 2. So needless to say, I am very happy about how my appt went.

Dean's parents arrive today so they can be near pop pop at the hospital. Which I am sure will make Dean's mothers day a little brighter w/ his mommy here. I spent lunch time w/ my mom today. We were supposed to be getting together w/ my brother and his family too but my sister in law got sick. So we just ate lunch and hung out a little bit. Exchanged gifts since pending how the weekend goes I am not sure I'll keep my plans to have lunch at my moms on Sunday. Right now we're putting all our plans on hold til we see what Dean's moms plans are and see how pop is doing.

My "little" boy is growing so fast. he's growing quite a vocabulary and has reached a comfortable height not only to be able to open doors but yesterday he figured out how to take the child safety door knob covers off of our bedroom door! I asked him to show me how and he went up to the dr and laughed and ran away so I couldnt put it back on the door knob. He's a sneaky little fella. His favorite thing to watch is Monsters Inc. it's usually always on the tv even if he's off playing elsewhere. He insists that it always be on. Used to be Elmo was his favorite but now he's captivated w/ Monsters. At least its a movie I can enjoy too.