Thoughts by Steph

James' aunt got him these sunglasses for Easter. They used to have little bunny ears on them. He is obsessed with wearing them and today he wanted them on constantly. I got some pictures of him running back and forth through the kitchen with them. I was cracking up so hard I had to Skype my parents in Morocco really quick so they could see him too. Unfortunately I think he just broke one of the sides so they won't stay on. I may have to tape them until I can find a new pair as he's very attached!

I am too cool!

Look at me!

Where's my mic?

Last week it was really rainy on Friday and as James and I are used to going outside for at least part of the day, I decided that we just could not make it inside all day. So I coerced Jim into taking us to the McDonald's in town that has the indoor play place. It was at lunchtime and pretty busy because apparently all the other moms had the same idea. But there weren't many kids James' age so he got to play all by himself in the little "under 3" area under the big huge plastic tunnel-like thing. In true stay-at-home-mom fashion I figured, "it's rainy, it's just McDonald's in Spring Hill, I'll just throw on a sweat suit and go sans make up." Of course as soon as we get there we see a couple from our church with their kids. Oops! Oh well, we're good friends so it was all good

I wasn't quite ready for James to have the Happy Meal experience (can we say - NO nutritional value whatsoever!) so I actually brought him some food. He's not much for fast food anyways. I did get him to eat a few french fries and he devoured the little cookies that they give to the kids. They were really well equipped with clean high chairs on rollers with detachable trays. And the "under 3" play area was really great for him. All in all - a great trip! However, Mom and Dad did eat the lunch there and I'm leaning towards James growing up with the Chik-fil-A tradition since their food is SOOOO much better!

On the way to McD's!

Not quite sure about this yet

Eating my first McD's fry!

The cookies are good!

Playing

With Daddy

With Mommy

Let me outta here!

Things I loathe....

• Traffic
• Putting away my laundry
• Missing that one ingredient for the meal you are currently cooking

Things I love....

• Starbucks decaf Espresso Roast coffee
• Browsing books at Borders
• Lounging on the couch
• NOT feeling nauseous!! Hooray for Zofran!
• Meeting a friend for a last minute lunch
• Having friends that I can "talk smack" with about Catan and knowing that they (he) won't hold it against me if I lose!

Here are pics of the men in my life...Jim and James. Aren't they handsome??

James with Daddy on his slide

In the backyard

Well unfortunately I do not have my camera thus there are not pictures so this isn't a really real entry for the cool "Me and My Monday" group but overall I had a really cool "Monday" so the post title seemed appropriate.

My day started with me getting to sleep in. Yes - that's what I said - "sleep in". Mom of a 15 month old who hasn't "slept in" since December 26, 2006 - it was heaven! And this was all because my wonderful, incredible husband of almost 8 years got up and got our son ready for a day at grandma's and took him there for me. Thanks, honey!

So I got up around 9am, lazily ate breakfast while reading blogs and by 11am I took a nap on the couch. Woke up for lunch and ate leftovers with Jim while still in my bathrobe. I did actually clean the kitchen and get laudry started before heading back to the couch to do emails, make phone calls and watch TV. I fell back asleep during Rachael Ray and woke up in time to jump in the shower and get ready for a girls night out with my good friend Kristy.

We went to La Paz - yummy Mexican food! And then to Starbucks and talked the night away. Just got home and I'm sitting here with my aforementioned husband, quite satisfied and grateful for such a lovely Monday!!!

Loathe - feeling nauseous, whining, staying up too late, waking up and not being able to fall back asleep, overpriced food

Love - my clean kitchen, my incredibly attentive, supportive and all around wonderful hubby, Reese's chocolate peanut butter eggs, half price Easter candy, Smoothie King, fresh blackberries

I love Peeps and this picture made me laugh so hard!!

Funny-pictures-peep-show-easter-candy

I was born in Louisville, KY and moved to Dallas, TX when I was 4. I lived there until I was 16 when I moved to Nashville, TN and I've been here almost 14 years.

And yet I am still surprised that I turned out 81% Dixie on this dialect quiz!!

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html

James is finally asleep!! He had a pretty good day today considering but going to sleep at night is still so hard! Ugh! I find myself exhausted by the time he's finally out and even though I know I should be doing a million things to get caught up, I'm sitting her Voxing a bit and then I'm off to bed!!

I was just thinking though of these little annoyances that I really don't have time for but that must be taken care of. I guess this stuff was on my mind because I just paid the mountain of bills that were piling up and entered all our receipts that were also piling up. Ugh!

Someone knocked over our mailbox last week. And no they didn't stop to apologize or anything. We just woke up and it was knocked over and part of it cracked. Jim was headed out of town so he set it back enough for us to get mail but it's already fallen once. It's just so annoying. I've emailed our HOA to find out where to buy a new one. Who wants to spend money on that??

I order some facial stuff online and it gets shipped to my every month. Still haven't gotten this months shipment but they've already debited my account. So annoying! I've sent an email asking what's up but haven't heard back. Again one more thing I have to follow up on.

I paid our pest control people via Epay through our bank account in December and they claim they still haven't received the payment even though I see it on our bank statement. When I called them about it a month ago, I gave her my debit card number so they could go back to auto-debiting our account since I hate paper bills. Just got another paper bill in the mail with a past due notice for the Dec. payment. Again, just stuff I really don't have time for, but I know it has to be taken care of. Ugh again!

It sounds like I've had an "ugh" kind of day but really it was good. I took James for a 40 minute walk around the neighborhood this evening. It was gorgeous outside and is supposed to be nice again tomorrow. I'm so glad to get out and MOVE! I seriously need some exercise. Our new Spring Hill rec center opens on April 12th and it's 5 minutes from my house! I'm so excited! I will have NO EXCUSE not to exercise now! :)

Jim is still in California until Saturday (that's definitely an "ugh!") and I've hardly talked to him because he's two hours behind me.

And I must say that my schedule is so off right now! It's almost 9:30pm and I'm definitely tired but not sleepy. Hmm...I have to read Nathaniel Hawthorn stuff for my lit. class. I should probably start reading. Surely that will put me to sleep!

James' grandma just came to pick him up and take him to her house so I can have a break. He did better last night. Slept in 3 hour stretches which is fantastic compared to Sunday night, but I'm still zonked.

I've got about five hours of free time. I have tons to do around the house (of course) and home work that I could work on (although last week was Spring Break and I decided to get ahead and now I'm soooo glad I did since I probably won't do as much school work this week as normal).

But part of me would like to do something fun since there are no guarantees of free time tonight or tomorrow, esp. with Jim out of town...hmm...choices, choices.....

Our brand new Super Target and Kohl's just opened in Spring Hill over the weekend. I'm tempted to window shop a bit. And yet getting out would require a shower, make up, clean clothes etc. Maybe I do need a nap first... :)