Spring

I am so ready for spring!! Even though it was technically the first day of spring yesterday, spring doesn't actually arrive in Calgary until late May. Last year we had snow on May 23! Regardless, it has been warm and spring-like the last few weeks and for that I am grateful. I cannot wait for long days spent outside playing in parks and basking in the beautiful sunshine...breathing in the earth, the scent of the grass, feeling the ground beneath me beat with the lifeblood of summer.

This weekend is bathroom renovation weekend! Jesse and a good friend of ours are re-tiling the bathtub areas in both our main upstairs bathroom and the basement suite bathroom. Today consisted of a lot of tile removal (holy crap was that LOUD), re-plumbing, replacing mouldy/mildewy (not sure which) drywall behind the tiles and applying some new tiles to the downstairs bathroom. Tomorrow brings more tiling and then grouting! I was kind of pissed that Jesse and his friend picked this weekend to do the reno, but now I am kind of happy that it ended up this weekend. Surprisingly, Jesse has both today and Monday off (his work usually does not observe holidays other than Easter and federal stat holidays) so this is kind of a perfect weekend to be doing this. Four whole days to make sure the job is done and done right. Today it meant that I ended up occupying 5 children aged 5 and under, one of whom is severely mentally handicapped, but it wasn't so bad. I am currently drowning my residual stress in several bottles of Corona ;) Tomorrow we will hang out for part of the morning, then me and my kids are headed to a birthday party in the afternoon which should be a nice change of scenery. Hopefully by the time we return home all the re-tiling will be finished! I am excited to see how it looks when all is said and done. All this home reno business is a pain in the ass, but also really fun and exciting too.

Speaking of Coronas...man do I have a need for some drinking and DANCING lately. I cannot believe how much I am dying to just drink and dance the night away. I don't do it often, but every few months or so I just NEED to dance it off. I don't really get why, as I am quite happy in my "mom" life for the most part...but I guess sometimes I just need to act like a 25 year old and get my dance and drink on. My best girl is coming down from Edmonton in 2 weeks and I have every intention of stealing her for a night, leaving Jesse with the kids and a bunch of pumped milk (already in the freezer!) and dancing my ass off.

My resolution to not eat sugar today totally failed...I ended up with a lot of chocolate in me...dammit. Today was a bad choice for starting, honestly...I forgot that I was going to have my three plus two more (who are parented *very* differently and are full of sugar and piss and vinegar most of the time). Stress got the best of me and I caved and bought some chocolate and scarfed it back. Gah. I WILL do better tomorrow.