Glorious Sun

I am so happy to see the sun shine today. Yeah, I wish it were a little warmer, but whatever. Spring is on it's way - that's what counts.

I had the morning off - my girlfriend and I trade off kid-watching every other week for our sanity's sake. So Chris and I met up at my favourite coffee shop to relax, chat, and flirt a little. It's so nice to get out and spend some time remembering that we're more than the people who make peanut butter and honey toast and wipe butts and noses and clean toilets together. We all need that from time to time.

We need another "real date" soon.

On the parenting front, it's been a busy and stressful few weeks. I've got my own "stuff" that I'm dealing with (and when I say "stuff" that's an understatement - more like a festering pile of doo-doo), and then to complicate things, the kids have been sick with this horrible cold that's been going around. They've been snotty, whiny, impatient, cranky...it's been very difficult remaining patient with them. And I will admit that I've lost my patience more than once with them in the last couple of weeks. It's hard for that not to happen sometimes, unfortunately.

Today I'm making a special effort to enjoy life. It's not easy many days, and I don't know if it's the sun shining or what, but at least for this day, it doesn't seem quite so bad.

I'm going to milk it for all it's worth.