Back to life

The Darren I met reappeared on Sunday, and by this I mean the man that wears cut off t-shirts and thinks it looks good.  After a good nap this past Sunday I found myself awakened by noise outside of our bedroom window and thinking it was the bunnies finding their way out I went to check but instead found Darren painting our fence and examining his work.  This made me smile, I cannot tell you how many times I have nodded at Darren as he tried to convince me how great a cut off is and I had to repeat to him time and again to get rid of those shirts.  Only once in the past 6 years can I recall letting him know that it might be a good day for a cutoff due to weather and our day’s events, only once, and I could not tell you whether he took that as a go ahead or passed it up altogether.  The shirts have slowly disappeared as his closet became more sweat wicking for all those runs and events.
I am telling you this because it made me so happy to know that I captured that moment that made me smile and appreciate that I have come back to our reality, we made it through our second tax season, spring has arrived, and I have never been so exhausted.
After a big weekend away on my own I was so glad to be home and to have spent lunch and the evening just the two of us, even made a big grocery trip to stock us up.  We have had a lot of nights of just being in front of the television and relaxing but our nights are now longer with my shorter hours and I finally made some dinners.  Darren took care of us during tax season but this was my week to conquer slowly.  Some laundry completed Monday and a lot of laying around as I realized it was only 5:00pm and I was done for the day.  Tuesday I made head way in the kitchen and dinner before we spent some time on Junior's room (its about 85% complete with things to wash and arrange), Wednesday it was dinner and small things and tonight dinner and some walking on the treadmill.  Hopefully I can keep it up and conquer a couple rooms tomorrow as we prepare for our last piece of furniture to arrive next week as well as meal plan to the max as I prepare Darren to the best of my abilities to his pickiness before his mini marathon.
It is so wonderful to be back at things again, to know that I can take care of us even though I am carrying around a squirmy little one.  Naps will be on the agenda with my 3 day weekends as well as some small preparations.  Just trying to enjoy us and the time we have together before we become a family of three.

Here we come Spring

So excited, busy season is about to wrap up, the weather is slowly evolving to the spring we have been long awaiting.  With spring came our weekend trip to Florida for the opening Indy Car race.  We survived had a great weekend away and then came back to reality.   Only bad part about this trip was that we took 1 picture.  That would be the absolute worst of us, we usually overtake photos but this time around at 7 months pregnant the exhaustion of traveling got the best of me and I just soaked in the days instead of documenting it all as usual.  But there would have been a lot of food photos, track photos and smiling ones that could have been taken to share.  With the traveling I was lucky enough to inherit swollen feet, so lucky to feel the pain and discomfort that I did not even think about being a part of this trip but it was.  My feet were so big and even though walking was nice it was also slightly painful.  Thankfully I have a wonderful husband in Darren and my feet are rubbed every night before this retention of water occurred, and since it occurred, during this trip my ankles also got some attention as they were almost unrecognizable.  I was going to take photos but it kinda grossed me out how much my feet had changed in less then 12 hours.  I also made a bad choice in not pack walking/tennis shoes, I only wear tennis shoes to workout but this time around the extra support of those or my boat shoes would have helped.  Lesson learned.
Flying back home alone was slightly scary as I am so pregnant but it went well.  Gaining a seat in the emergency exit row helped me stretch my legs and rotate my ankles for comfort.  I got to relax after being in the office and the swelling went away in a couple days time of being back to my normal routine and additional foot elevation.  It was nice to not have the swelling continue longer with as busy as we are in the office and to get things done around the house.
My schedule has loosened up from what it originally was set at the beginning of March but it is more than welcome as I can relax more and not overwhelm myself.  But we are about to hit another streak of crazy weekends.  Once tax season ends naps will be a mandate every 3 day weekend I can get it in, as I also scheduled myself tight for the following 2 weekends before Darren runs and we will both make time for naps that Saturday.
As it seems life is busy but extremely wonderful, I could not ask for anything more, except more hours for sleep.  Soon.  About to enter week 31with Junior kicking and punching in the ribs to make sure we are aware of how things are going, very great.