Hel-loooooooooo, Sunshine!

Ahh.... this is the time of year I wait for--late spring, with its almost summer-like weather... Soooo nice!

Today was absolutely gorgeous! Bright, sunny, hot.... Perfect! Jeremiah and I were gonna head to the pool, but unfortunately, it doesn't open until 4 during the week until the kiddies are out of school. The heck with all the Moms and their young children, who don't want to go to the pool when it's full of older kids, jumping and splashing around! I may just head out to Warrenton instead, and go in the parents' pool. Anyone wanna join me?

Oh, and btw, since it is pool season, just thought I'd let ya know: If you're using public pools, and you smell chlorine, that means there's not enough chlorine in the water, not that there's too much. This can cause skin and eye irritation, but otherwise, it's more annoying than anything else (and means they need to add more chlorine to properly ward off the badness that's floating around you...) Just an FYI.

Other than the nice weather, not much else going on. All of our shows are now over (Boston Legal was the only one left this week), small group is over, and soon, even the Union and the 7:30 Frontline service at Mclean will be over (for the summer). Our schedule just opened up an additional 11 hours a week! Wow! So far, we've done nothing with those extra hours.... Jeremy's playing a few more video games, I've done a bit more shopping, but that's about it.

That's alright. We could use a few days of "nothing" after being outta town for 3 days. That was an interesting trip.

In case you didn't read my post from last Friday, Jeremy, Jeremiah and I headed to "upstate NY" to visit the Penn Cabin and visit with family. Jeremiah got to see his "Grandmom", whom he hadn't seen since birth (he promptly began to cry, too, when she held him at first, but that's normal for him now... there were a lot of new faces, and he freaked. Even cried at Mommy and Daddy! Sheesh... so sensitive...) Now, I'm not an outdoors-y person. I can appreciate the cabin, in that it's a way to "get away", but I was perfectly "away" in our B&B. The only way for us to "get away" now would be to leave Jeremiah at Grandma's for the weekend, and get away without him, because it's tough to feel like you're on vacation with a baby--he still needs his regular naps, still needs to be fed, changed, rocked, hugged, held, loved, etc. For me, these are my day-to-day activities. So while we may have been away from home, I was still "working". If anything, my job was more difficult, because at the cabin, there's really no place you can put a sleeping baby that's away from everyone (where it's quiet and he'd be undisturbed). That was if you could get him to sleep to begin with! Too many people, plus too much new stuff to look at equals too little sleep for Jeremiah. The entire weekend, he went to bed 2-3 hours past his normal bedtime, and had very few naps.... So yeah, not very relaxing for Mommy.

Daddy, on the other hand, doesn't get to do so much with Jeremiah during the week, so I guess it was still an "away" time for him. And he got to do some shooting, and visit with his family, so he enjoyed himself. I'm not saying I DIDN'T enjoy myself.... It was nice seeing Jeremy's family again. It was just difficult to "relax" with Jeremiah in tow.

Jeremiah survived the drive well. We had to stop more often than if it were just us two, so that Jeremiah could get changed and fed, but otherwise it was okay. Jeremy got a good upper body stretch a couple of times, and Jeremiah would get hungry outta nowhere, so Jeremy would feed him while driving (I had to do it yesterday--couldn't take the screaming anymore while stuck in traffic... I don't recommend it... Sore today.)

Aside from a bad pedicure that now has me on antibiotics (not fun...), nothing else is new! Hopefully we'll get to the pool this week. That's my goal in life (for this week at least). I try to shoot for the stars, y'know? :-)