SPRING DAY!

So, I am sitting typing in my kitchen with the kitchen windows open. A perfect breeze is blowing in and the smell of rain is permeating the room. We are expecting a thunderstorm tonight. It feels perfect. I love Maryland. It feels so nice that I live in a place where i feel fulfilled. I need this type of life. I need beauty all around me and I TRULY appreciate it. I thank God often while I drive for creating this view for me. It is so inspiring to me.

Today I did Jen's Brazillian Blowout and after it I was starving so we got in the car and I ran into WHole foods to get dinner for her dinner group and I. After that, being so hungry i ran into Chipotle and got three tacos for us to share. She stayed in the car. As I was coming out she had Mitchie's face up against the window screaming for me! yep that is Mitchie. Total momma's boy. I don't mind. I am obsessed! Obsessed is not the word for these boys. I really can't believe how much i am in LOVE LOVE LOVE with them. They are so beyond cute to me I can't stand it! I love this age because no matter what they do, they are so darling you can't stay too frustrated. And believe me Mitchell can frustrate me! he cries pretty much off and on from 3 every day until bed time. Matty too, but not like Mitchie! I hardly care though, because when i see that gappy grin i melt! When i see Matty's expressions on his face i am smitten! I know this sounds a bit much and wierd and corny, but this is exactly how I feel about them! Alexis is just a doll to me too! Sadly, I am wiped out and a busy whirlwind half of my day so the poor girl gets the brunt of my frustrations! I am really trying to remember she is 4 and not my peer! I really do adore her. We have been reading Junie B. Jones and really liking it! We just finished the 2nd book tonight and I know she LOVES when I read to her. I am trying to take more time just for her, because i know she is needing it! She wakes up in the night A LOT and jay and I are wondering if my lack of real uninterupted attention may be the culprit! Besides i love her and enjoy her so much that I am glad that I am trying to connect with her better. I always want to have a great relationship with her. Sometimes i place to much responsibility on her and I need to relax a bit.

SO, i later ran Jen's dinner to Anjie's for her because I like any excuse to be out and driving when it is such a beautiful day. Instead of going straight home I rolled down all the windows, blasted Vivaldi and we started driving on some back roads. I LOVE DOING THAT! I didn't know where we were going but both the boys were swaying to the music and ALexis was pretend sleeping allowing the fast wind to whip hair all around her face. Needless to say we all were liking the drive. The grass is so green right now and the leaves are on most the trees. Right now you can see BEAUTIFUL pink, hot pink and bright purple trees everywhere! I LOVE IT! I didn't even know there were purple trees like this! When i really noticed one it caught me off guard! I know there are lilac trees and crepe myrtles, but these are HUGE big honkin trees that are covered in bright lavendar blossoms! RIGHT UP MY ALLEY!!! I saw a small sign on one road that read "Old MILL FARM" So as we approached I saw a red barn and a white picket fence and about 20 goats or sheep. Sadly I am still confused as to which animal i was looking at. They were total goat faces, but were covered in wool. SO that was throwing me off. I , the desert rat, haven't seen a goat covered in WOOL? Someone give me the basics please. Finally the goats maaaaa'd instead of baaaaa'd so i figured we were talking to goats. I got the boys and alexis out and stood them against the fence and they stared for several minutes! It smelled so good outside and they were loving it! Alexis kept begging me to lift her over the fence or call the goats over , but to no avail. It was great! When we got home I couldn't bear taking them inside it was so nice out, so we played outside our house and I took them to our park, until Mitchie, yes MItchie lost all park priveleiges due to unnessesary crying and we left. I got home threw them all in the bath, hurried them out and tossed em' in bed. PURE EXHAUSTION! I DON'T GET TO STOP! I am in constant motion. I wouldn't have it any other way, honestly, but I am pooped! Then Jason and I talked and talked over grilled Shishkabobs as ALexis painted a birdhouse and listened. After we looked at the clock we realized I still needed to read Junie B. JOnes to her so we headed off. Then jason's haircut, then this journal entry now the kitchen! thank goodness Jason did most of it already, but still more to do. I am TIRED! Goodnight!