Summer's Here!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you tell that summer is definitely here? The lack of posts lately gives that away! So, I'll catch up a little here. I recently cut back my percentage at work, which has been heavenly!! I will work two 12 hour shifts and one 8 hour shift a week...it makes a huge difference...there for awhile I was working 4 days a week, which for someone who's aiming to be a stay-at-home mom that was complete torture!! Okay, I know currently I couldn't totally be a stay at home mom, but for the most part I want to be home raising my kiddo(s)! I never thought that would be such a strong desire for me before I became a mom. It was never even on my radar. I just thought I'd be a working mom and be fine with it...doing the professional thing and getting my master's degree in a couple years...working my way up the career ladder in nursing. B-L-E-H. That's about how desirable that sounds to me right now. Now, I'm all about finding a way to soak up and savor every last minute of my life with this incredibly fun, outrageously cute, kissable, bundle of love that wakes me up with giggles and baby babble every morning. Ohmigosh, she brightens my life! Such a bummer that she won't be 19 months old forever...

My other half has been out of town for the past week. Another indicator that summer is definitely here. He's been a working fool lately! God bless him for it...he really enjoys working, believe it or not. He typically has side-jobs that he tends to on the weekends, so even his days "off" are busy. When he's not working on someone else's house, he's working on ours...which is in desperate need of a paint job, I might add. He's getting home from Louisiana tomorrow morning sometime...and plans to start prepping our house for painting in the afternoon. I hope he realizes that I won't let it happen...the man needs a day of rest!!! He's funny though...when I tell him to sit down and take a load off, and maybe even take a nap, he'll relax about a 1/2 hour before he's all antsy and restless, telling me "well, better work in the yard before it rains" (even though there is no rain in the forecast for the next 3 days!) or "I should get out in the garage and organize some stuff". I just say, "Ok hunny, whatever floats your boat." That's my husband though...he's such a tinker-er...I guess it's one of the thousands of reasons why I love him. Well, that, and who doesn't love watching a handsome handy-man in a cut-off t-shirt and rugged camo shorts man handling a power washer? I mean, come on... ;)

As for Ava...well, she's just been doing her thing lately...learning the ropes of this world and being super cute while she's at it. ;) The girl gives me butterflies...and belly laughs...and I just wanna squeeeeeze her all day long! Sometimes I even try to...it's not well-received...apparently she doesn't realize that mothers like to squeeze their babies when they're as snuggable (I think I just made that word up) as she is....