Have you ever had one of those days that no matter what you did, how many times you started over, put that smile back up, and trudged through, it just kept getting worse… and then worse still… well that was my day.

I won’t bore you with the details but if you were hoping to catch me today, forget it. Save the convo and call tomorrow because today, I’m getting back in my pj’s and am going to try and forget the mishap that is tuesday.

This morning, I was reminded as to why i am the luckiest woman ever. I woke up to a stunning arrangement of tulips sitting next to an equally beautifully wrapped gift that i soon found out was a new ipod shuffle whom i have lovingly named “sweething” as that was the inscription on my valentine!

My old ipod, Bungy, having gasped out his last breath with my trip to DC, was a devastating loss and my husband, picking up on the subtleties of my distress, surprised me with this newfound contraption! I have to tell you, I could not be more ecstatic with its small, wonderfully thought out, brilliantly made just for me abilities!

So for all of you love birds out there, HAPPY V-DAY! Hope you had just as an eventful day!

I never had a predisposition about what motherhood would be like. I really had never given it any thought. i assumed that if Jaythan and i were ready, we would begin planning for a baby, and then would have a bouncy little boy/girl something like a year later. But I never thought about what it would feel like to be a mother. To actually be responsible for a little person. I mean there were no people and then there were people, it’s pretty crazy.

To be perfectly honest,up to this point, I feel that I’ve been pretty much self involved (and rightly so) as that self involvement helped to define me as me, but now that i have Noah, now that I’m teaching him, and loving him, helping him to get to that next little milestone, I’ve never done anything that has felt so important. I truly feel blessed to have been given this gift, this awareness that I think can only come with being a mother. He is our greatest accomplishment.

We have just begun to delve into the adventurous world of exersaucers and come out on the other end with “The Baby Einstein Musical Motion Activity Jumper” that Jaythan lovingly termed ” the death star.” Noah is LOVING it! He bounces. he slaps, he turns
(with a little assistance) At first I was skeptical that we needed ALL OF THIS for him to enjoy but for the good 10 minutes he’s in it unassisted, makes it all worth it!