Good evening!
We are having the fiercest storm here tonight, pounding rain,
booming thunder and lightning bright enough to power my house for a day or so! It is always a cozy feeling to be tucked away inside my nice and dry house in moments like these...although I am hoping the Mother Nature quells her rage by tomorrow afternoon...My Son's 2nd birthday party begins at 1!!
Due to this fact, I have been feeling super nostalgic seeing as how I blinked and all of a sudden my sweet baby boy is no longer babbling and cooing but instead walking (I really mean running) and talking in almost complete sentences!
I went with a "CARS" birthday theme...He is really into Lightning McQueen these days...hence his room decor is pretty much as "CARSY" as you can get (his TV is even shaped like Mr. McQueen himself)! I am very excited for everyone to get here tomorrow and spend time with one another...it just doesn't happen often enough anymore.
I have worked super hard in preparing this party and have no qualms taking FULL credit for it...I just unfortunately have the OCD type personality in which everything MUST be PERFECT or I will possibly have a mini panic attack. Some days this is no issue (though it drives my husband NUTS) but on days like today and tomorrow...everything must go smoothly in order for me to enjoy myself. The napkins have to be just so.....ok now I am scaring myself!!!
On another note, tomorrow will be one of those days in which I will feel that familiar pang that is associated with missing my Brother. He is overseas right now on his first deployment with the U.S. Navy. Needless to say I am EXTREMELY proud of him...but the fact that I haven't seen his face in a few months now tends to pull on the heartstrings. He did however manage to call me yesterday which lifted my spirits tremendously. I have come to cherish these stolen moments, even the ones that have to last only seconds (classified issues, etc.)
Another pang that hits this time of year is that Sunday is my Honey's (grandpa) birthday...he was taken from us 5 years ago and is now walking with the Lord and pain-free...but it saddens me to this day that my son will never get to meet this wonderful man I had the privilege to grow up with. I can only share stories with him as he grows up...
All in all, it has been a pretty productive day. It only takes having a massive amount of people over to get my butt into deep cleaning mode...which really should be done weekly, but lately I do what I can and spend as much time with my son as possible...so shoot me...and take that OCD!!!!!
~Peace
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