Wonderful Day

What a wonderful day. First, Aaron got up with the kids this morning so Austin and I could sleep in, then it is like 70 degrees today and BEAUTIFUL, so I have all the windows open, a book-on-tape in the player, and am getting my house clean. I've come to realize that as sick as it may seem, I think I sometimes like to clean my house, it just gives me so much satisfaction and such a sense of peace to have it all clean......or maybe i'm just going crazy! lol Always nice to be able to clean it during the day without anyone under my feet and it staying clean. Then on top of all this, my friend Pam is comming in today from Des Moines. I can't wait to catch up. I haven't seen her since October when Mackenzie and I went up to stay with her after she had has her little girl.
We had a few friends over for the Superbowl last night. It was nice to have some other people around to talk to and feel like I was geting to be a little social. My dad also came up yesterday for my birthday, and it is always great to have him here. the kids love him SOOO much, it is just wonderful to sit back and watch them all interact. Just pure love and joy come out of them all. My dad was always the strong "real country guy" type and I don't remember ever seeing much emotion out of him, but when he is around his grandkids, you can literally SEE his heart melt.
Austin is still doing great. He has a crying spell each night around 8-10, but besides that he is still an angel. I can't get over how wonderful it has been to bring him home. really, not even once have I had the moment when I was like "what the heck was I thinking". It couldn't feel any more natural to have him here in my arms, even when it is shile I'm soaping up two other kids in the bathtub or changing poopy diapers. Aaron and i are both totally taken by it, and needless to say, has made us think even more that we'll have to do this again...I mean just to see if this was just a fluke that it was this easy! lol I completely think that the vast majority though of it being so nice this time is the easy recovery that I had and no problems since coming home from the hospital (except for those pesky headaches at the beginiing, but really that was so insignificant now). I wish everyone could experience this. Maybe I'm just on the right meds this time!!!
Anyways, enough of my "it's a wonderful life story". As everyone knows there are always hard times, but life is really good lately and I'm just going to soak it all in and not be waiting for the ball to drop. Maybe reading this gave you a smile today too, and then it can become contagious.

BTW..we got our proofs but I don't have any way to scan them to post online. But we got some amazing family photos and some good ones of me and Aaron alone. Just wanted a couple shots alone as the physical reminder that we aren't always mom and dad, we are husband and wife too.