Spring Changes

Is summer here yet? I'm ready for a Boston trip!!

I HAVE to change the name of this blog - we are no longer waiting on a wedding, nor are we engaged. I think I'm having the same problem as my name change. The blog has always been Waiting on a Wedding. I started it when we got engaged. And one day you just have to up and change your legal name AND your blog name?!? What is up with that? Seriously. I'll get around to it one of these days.

Today is it rainy and just blah in Virginia. Christopher has been sick for the past week and it's only getting worse (just a bad chest cold). These two factors made me feel that the only way I could be a good wife today was to get some pity sleep for Christopher. So I woke up at nine, ate cereal, had 1/2 pot of coffee, talked to my sister, wrote one thank you note (slow process), and read myself back to sleep at 12:30. FIVE HOURS LATER I woke up and polished off the coffee (still warm thanks to my sweet Cuisinart pot from two of my favorite aunts) and Christopher had already left for work. Goodbye Saturday.

The kids are finally settling back into a routine at work. Don't get me wrong, they are still little maniacs (especially now that spring has arrived) but I think they're happy to know I'm not leaving again for the rest of the year. April is an AWESOME month in kindergarten. The kids just take off with reading and writing. They write the funniest things in their journals (e.g. "My mom's socks say no nonsense," or "My mom won't marry my dad.") They are starting to really experience the world around them and develop these little personalities. FYI - I am going to need a LOT of support June 11th when I have to move my babies to first grade. I know I'll cry my eyes out. Christopher wants to know what I'm going to do when we have kids since I get emotional when one of my kindergartners loses a first tooth. HAHAHA. It's weird though, you become very possessive of these kids. I know it's probably because they are my first class but they are my babies. I have them with me for SEVEN hours a day, five days a week. Their parents trust me to teach them and protect them and help raise them. Of course I'm going to cry with a loose tooth.

ON THE OTHER HAND, I am exhausted. Absolutely exhausted. I think it's mostly because things are finally slowing down. The wedding is over (still sad about this), our house is going up quickly (we have nothing to do but watch at this point - no more decision making) and I've learned to balance my work life and leave the building by 5:00 most nights. I feel like I'm coming down from a sugar high and I'm just crashing. The house is a mess and I have no energy to clean. I just want summer to be here so Stephanye is home and we can move into our new house and just BE. Just sit and BE for a few weeks. Christopher may be sadly disappointed to know that a summer job is nowhere in my future.

I'm still waiting on the professional wedding shots. I know Coe is taking his time and making them even MORE beautiful but I'm so anxious to see. I love photos - taking them, looking at them. I think it's amazing how you can capture one split second in time and have it with you forever. Ok, now I'm just getting sappy.

As an end note, please keep my friend Justin in your thoughts and prayers. I just found out his mother passed away last week from breast cancer.