It's here

Spring. Can you smell it? It started last Saturday when we spent a beautiful, sunny, warm day at the park with Chase. He looked like such a big boy going down all the slides and running all over the place. I didn't even wear a jacket.

Today I got our patio furniture out of hibernation so Chase and I could sit out and enjoy the sun. I blew bubbles. Tim's made daquiris. I imagined the smell of barbecue and chlorine (noticeably absent from my daydream)

Home depot has all their flowers out. Target has swimsuits. And the huge pile of snow surrounding our mailbox has melted.

Hooray! It's here. Finally! Is it just me or has this winter seemed INCREDIBLY long?

I hate winter. Really really. I hate winter. I'm celebrating the arrival of spring by shopping more than I should. Usually I am really good about money and save up extra 'play money' in a jar.

Currently my jar is empty.

This is why:







I guess spring and summer clothes give me hope that warmth is right around the corner. I cannot WAIT. I won't even post all the things I want to buy for Chase.

On a happy note, Tim and I unwittingly participated in Spring Cleaning on Saturday. I started by putting away all the Valentine's decorations and replacing them with shamrocks and leprechauns. Then I started cleaning out our closet. Let's just say I have clothes that range from size 1 to size 6. The majority of things in my closet don't actually fit me. I find this so incredibly annoying!! Losing weight is great, don't get me wrong. I appreciate the fact that Chase's baby weight melted off in a couple weeks. I know I am lucky and that no one wants to hear me complain about it. But it didn't stop there. I slowly keep changing sizes STILL even though I haven't even been nursing for 5 months. None of my clothes from last summer fit. Definitely none of my clothes from two summers ago when I was 5 months pregnant, and buying a size up, fit. And none of my clothes from three, four, five summers ago fit either. So I have tons of summer clothes, yes. But none that are my size. How ANNOYING. Quite literally, a closet full of clothes and nothing to wear.

So. I got out two huge garbage bags. One for DI, and one for 'clothes that maybe i can wear again someday when i'm a little bit pregnant'. Tim got rid of a bunch of old jackets and shirts he never wears. He actually threw away all his jeans that have been duck-taped together because of numerous holes (he never does that for me). He even got rid of some of his creepy mission ties. We had a mountain of clothes on our bedroom floor. Seriously. a MOUNTAIN. It was amazing. And refreshing. We ended up going through EVERYTHING; and we got rid of a ton of stuff. It felt good.

And now I have an ENTIRE RACK of free closet space. For all the new things I will be buying this Spring of course


Ok, I can't resist. I'll just post one thing for Chase:

Usually it really bothers me if everything doesn't match... For some reason, I love this. Maybe just because the little model looks a lot bit like Chase.