a dose of 'this and that'

I watched "The Notebook" last night for the first time. I loved it. Such a beautiful story and I look forward to watching it again.

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"It's not gonna be easy, it's gonna be really hard.
We're gonna have to work at this every day.
But I wanna do that because I want you.
I want all of you.
Forever.
You and me...
everyday."

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Sweet P is fighting off a wee bit of a cold. Whenever she gets a runny nose or needs to blow her nose, she'll come up to us pointing at her nose saying "bubble". Super cute and I love it.
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I'm super happy that my love is on his way home! I was a little nervous going back to the solo-parenting gig since its been nearly 2 1/2 months of sleeping under the same roof...which, sadly, is probably the longest number of consecutive nights we've been under the same roof since moving into this house nearly three years ago. But honestly, it wasn't bad at all. I jumped back into it like an old habit.

And seriously, what is it about totally being able to open a jar or sippy cut without assistance (with ease, mind you) and the second he walks back through the door with his travel bags, that ability goes out the window?

Ugh. So not ready to face the coming deployment. I'll just bury that one and try and forget about it creeping closer and closer.
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I did something uncharacteristic of me today. I let the dishes sit in the sink...with food still on them no less. Yuck. I'm not proud. For whatever reason, I'm sharing it with you. I will say, to my defense, that on Sundays nap time comes quicker than you can blink since we get out of church on the later than ideal side. As soon as we get home, we grab a quick bite to eat and roll right into nap time. Doing the solo-parenting thing, the dishes sat. Today, after getting the kiddo down, I crashed too because the electricity kept going out last night...which caused our house alarm to ring every 15 seconds saying "hey, there's no power here." So I'd have to get up, push the buttons to say "yeah, I know, made well aware of by you--now shut up...trying to sleep here".
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I'm digging where my new blog design is going and having fun being creative again in the whole graphic department. Not sure how long I'll have this design up...probably until I get hit with the "lets play with it again" bug. Regardless of whether its good design in a critic's eyes, I don't care. I'm having fun and see it more as an outlet.