Here's what's up

* I have a love/hate relationship with my mornings since Josh started working at Cigna. He leaves our bed much too early, usually with me whining for him to quit his job and stay home and snuggle with me forever. I know, what a supportive wife, right? This is usually mumbled while I'm half awake, so by the time I have gone back to sleep Josh comes in with Elliot and lays him in the bed next to me. Most of the time Elliot quickly returns to sleep and we snuggle in bed for another half an hour. Why get up early when you can snuggle your chubby little boy under warm covers? Yes, the theme here is snuggling. Around 6:30 Josh comes back in to the room to kiss me goodbye...more whining commences and we have another round of "We don't need money to live, stay home!"

When I finally make it out of bed with the child, I am in full "I love mornings" mode. I give him his bottle, which he finishes in about 5 seconds, grab a hot cup of coffee and leave him to his devices while I enjoy a little time on the computer. I check on him over my shoulder every so often and usually catch a scene like this:

The love is usually inspired by the fact that I am close to 2 years of not working. This glorious period may end very soon since bills continue to pour in with a $1000 price tag on them, so for now I am going to love every moment of it.

* I am obsessed with this peanut butter:

I have always been a big fan of peanut butter, but this is truly White Chocolate Wonderful. I bought this second jar so I could make a batch of peanut butter cookies for our Monday night Bible study group. The first jar never made it's way on to anything...I ate the entire thing by the spoonful over a few days. Actually, I may have had a few bites with banana until I felt the banana was impeding the delicious flavor of the White Chocolate Wonderful itself.

* Joshua and I both had our cars serviced on Monday. On the upside, Josh took a vacation day so we would be able to get both cars done at once. On the downside, our Focus required new tires ($$$) and the Fusion required a new battery, battery connector and air filter along with the oil change (more $$$).

I am watching our lovely tax return that was supposed to pay off our credit card go very quickly towards a whole bunch of other things. Life refuses to take these lemons and make me a glass of refreshing lemonade. It just keep squirting the lemon juice in my eyes.

* Elliot is finally crawling!! I briefly mentioned this in my last blog but I feel it needs some more attention. After 9 whole months of refusing to do anything other than work on his "Downward Facing Dog" and various other yoga moves, he finally is CRAWLING. I somehow think my excitement over his mobility will be short lived. 

* We had to wait till Tuesday to pick up the Fusion from Exeter. Once we got the carseat transferred back to the Fusion, we decided another round of Frosty King's delicious seasoned fries was in order. I prompted Josh to call some friends of ours, Jason and Katey, to see what was up and how their son, Nolan, is doing. Apparently every Tuesday Exeter has a small farmer's market which was happening just around the corner from where we were eating. Katey sells handmade soaps at a booth there, so Jason met up with us when he got off work and we all walked to her booth and played catch up for awhile. Usually I am a total crab about unplanned nights like that, but it was a lot of fun to run in to people and see how they have been doing. 

Plus, I love babies. So, bonus!

I am going to attempt to try out my sewing machine today. I may decide I have no energy to leave the house and play around with my crocheting instead. We will see.