Lazy Sunday

After a fun outing to Target with the girls and a good nights sleep, I am over my frustrations of yesterday. I have taken Sunday as the day of rest quite literally today. For the first time since I can't remember when I didn't get out of bed until 8:30. On the weekedays I am a 5:30 riser and even on the weekends I am lucky to make it past 7. So 8:30 is definitely an accomplishment. Brent took Haley to get hot doughnuts for breakfast, which was nice for two reasons: 1. I like hot doughnuts and 2. there was no cooking and very little clean up involved on my part. Then late this morning I got to indulge myself in a way that I have not been able to in forever. I got to take a long, hot bubble bath with no interruptions from kids. Talk about relaxation. And if that wasn't relaxation enough, after lunch all of us Blake girls took a simultaneous nap. I will probably regret it when I can't sleep at 11 o'clock tonight, but right now I am feeling pretty good. Haley and I are about to work on her cutting for school and then I promised her we'd bake cookies this evening. She loves helping me bake cookies. Emme is teething some more so hopefully she'll wake up from her nap a happy camper. Other than that, I have a wonderful husband who cleaned the house while we were on our Target outing yesterday so all I have going is laundry and my nightly viewing of Gilmore Girls. Every now and then we all need a lazy day and today has certainly been one for me. I guess I better go enjoy the rest of it - there's no telling when the next one will come along!!

Never Good Enough

Do you ever have those days where you feel like no matter how hard you try or what you do its never good enough? If you don't, please share your secret with me!! It seems like every day for the past week I have had one of these days. This has been a very, very tough tax season for me. First of all, for one reason or another my work load has increased. And on top of that tasks that usually take 30 minutes seem to be taking an hour or more!! I feel like I am putting in hour after hour with little to show for it. I know everything will be fine. I get this way every year and every year the work somehow gets done. Its also been rough because I know have two little ones at home that I feel like I hardly get to see and I hate that. If it weren't for Haley's Tuesday night ballet classes and Wednesday night church, our time together during the week would be almost non-existent. I guess I really don't have much room to complain. I had plenty of family and friends in the public accounting world at the time I decided to join it, so I definitely knew what I was getting into. There is hope though. In about six or so weeks it will all be over and I'll look back and it won't seem so bad. Until then I need to learn some better stress management techniques. If you have any, I'd love to hear them!!

I Love Facebook!!

I have a confession: I love Facebook. I really do. I love reconnecting with friends from high school and college. I love seeing pictures of their families and finding out what they have been up to. I love knowing when something good happens to one of my friends or when they need encouragement or prayer. I have to admit I don't particularly care about anyone's Farm, Mafia War, or Sorority, but for the most part I think the whole Facebook concept is pretty cool. Its true that the majority of my Facebook friends are really only acquaintances. If it weren't for Facebook I would have no idea where any of them were or what they were doing. On the other hand I do owe a handful of ladies who have become great friends to Facebook. Why am I going on so much about Facebook? Last night before I went to bed I was checking my Facebook via my phone and got a less than enthusiastic response from my husband. Its not that he's anti-Facebook or anything. He actually has an account. He just doesn't understand my "fascination" with it. I guess maybe I am somewhat of an addict as far as checking status updates is concerned. In my defense I have gotten a lot better these past few weeks as my work has slowly taken over certain areas of my life. And until I start asking for help with my farm or recruiting members for my sorority I will refuse to believe that I have a problem. I enjoy using Facebook and I will not apologize for it. Now, if you will excuse me I need to check my Facebook account. JUST KIDDING!!!!!

Turning Over a New Leaf

I want you all to know that I am super proud of myself right now. The reason? Today marks the first time that I have posted to this blog two days in a row!!! Ok, so its not like I helped to solve world peace or anything like that, but for me its an accomplishment. I hope I can keep it up. The next few days might be a bit of a challenge though. My family should be here in a few hours. They are staying until Saturday so I won't have much access to my computer. Now that I have two kids I am down to only one extra bedroom. Before Emme we had an office and a guestroom. Now we have an office/guestroom. Its a little tight, but it works given that we rarely have overnight guests. I have toyed with the idea of making it an extra room for the girls. I'd most likely put a sofa in there for them, so I'd just get one with a pull out bed for the occasions when my family does visit. Of course my desk would still have to go in there due to lack of any place else to put it, but since there'd be much less furniture it shouldn't be as much of a squeeze. Of course if you want to know what I'd really like to do, its put in a game room and a small study in our current attic space. I have had one contractor look at it and he said we couldn't do it because of the way our ductwork was done. I plan on getting a second opinion. I'm not saying it would be easy or inexpensive, but surely it can be done. Until then my office/guestroom will have to do!!

Time Flies When You're Having Fun

Wow!! It's been one month exactly since I last posted. So much for commitment, huh? It isn't that I haven't wanted to post or that I haven't had anything to post about. I have just been so FREAKIN BUSY!!! The good news is that it is now the middle of February and my yearly torment known as tax season is a third of the way over. Even better, today is Mardi Gras Day, or Fat Tuesday. Personally as someone who did not grow up around Mardi Gras, I could really care less about it, except for the fact that I get a day off from work!!! I did actually go to a parade this year. Not in Mobile, but in downtown Fairhope. I enjoyed it a lot, although I went more for Haley than for myself. She had a blast getting beads and moon pies (her new favorite snack), but it was really too cold. I think it was somewhere around 32 or 33 degrees that night. I know...you're thinking, "Come on, its February. Its winter. Its SUPPOSED to be cold." Well, maybe it is in some places, but NOT in Mobile, AL. At least not this cold. I have lived here for almost seven years and I don't think I have experienced this cold of a winter here yet. I absolutely cannot wait for spring!!! I want to open up the windows to my house and let in the warm fresh air. I want to plant flowers in my yard. I want to spring clean my house. I want to run in the mornings again. Oh yeah, and I don't want to spend half of my weekends at the office. But that goes without saying. (For the record, I really do like my job. Its just a little crazy this time of year). Anyway, back to today. I am home and my girls are napping. My husband is at work painting his new office. I must say its nice to have some quiet time to myself. Its such a rare thing I almost didn't know what to do!! I've been doing some stuff around the house since we are having visitors the rest of the week. My dad and his wife are driving down from Huntsville tomorrow. Haley is out of school all week (Mardi Gras again) so I was in need of free babysitters and we haven't seen them since Thanksgiving. It should be a nice visit and Brent and I always look forward to extra helpers. I guess I better wrap this up before the little ones wake up. It nice to be back. I promise I will try not to stay away so long!