7 Quick Takes

-1-

This morning Gabe and I walked to the tennis court and played.  It was a great way to get exercise and I hope we will do it more often, and maybe a little earlier in the morning so daddy won't get to work too late.  The boys had fun chasing the balls around for us too.  

-2-

The weather has been so nice lately.  Cool enough where I don't need to turn on the air.  I try to keep the fans on and the house dark during the day so it won't heat up too much.  I know hot sticky weather will be here before I know it, so I'm enjoying the breezy, relatively cooler weather (no humidity, high 80's) while I still can.  

-3-

Kieran is sleeping on his own now and it's so nice having the bed just for me and Gabe again. (Although it is rather large so we sleep so far apart just from habit)  I am also enjoying the longer hours of sleep.  It is so nice not to wake up in the middle of the night.  When Kieran does wake, (which he did a few times last night because he has a molar coming in) Gabe runs to the rescue.  Thank you honey!  

-4-

I have been starting to question my deep spring cleaning plan.  It is such a big job and taking so long.  I have been working on cleaning the kitchen for the past few days.  Taking everything out of the cupboards, wiping them down, and then scrubbing every spot off them.  I really would like to finish the rest of the house before Easter but I don't know if that's going to happen.  At least hopefully everything will be pretty much spotless by the end of the month.  

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Tomorrow I'm headed to Jacksonville with a friend for the Catholic Women's conference.  We have to leave at 6 am to get there for the 8 o'clock starting time.  It runs until 4:30 pm.  I am looking forward to a day of fellowship and encouragement in my Catholic faith.  Hopefully the boys will have fun with daddy and get some stuff done around the house for me!  :)

-6-

My Mom is flying in for Ben's graduation the first week in May.  She'll be staying at Melissa's so we're going to try and go down for a couple of days to visit.  It'll be nice to have some more of the family together again.  Ben will be flying back to WA with Mom, so we'll get to see him one last time before he leaves.  I also planned a little two night camping trip for us in May which I'm really excited about.  It's on the east coast so we'll have lots of beach time and hopefully not too hot of weather.  

-7-

I'm still watching tickets to fly back to CA in the summer for the family reunion camping trip which is the end of July-beginning of August.  It's going to be at Lake Tahoe.  I haven't been there before (I think Gabe's been once) but we would probably fly into LA, rent a car, and borrow some of Gabe's parent's camping equipment.  I guess we'll just have to see if flights go down, and everything works out.