Cabin Fever!!

I'm starting to get a little cabin fever here lately.  I feel like we have been stuck in this house for too many days now!  Ashley has been fighting off a cold and hasn't really been interested in leaving the house to go on many adventures lately.  So I decided to leave her in her pj's for the good part of the morning and watch some Mickey House (that's what she calls Mickey Mouse Clubhouse).

We did get to have lunch with daddy today which always makes us happy.  We like it when he is stuck covering Bethesda North for the week and therefore he comes home for lunch (and I love the fact that it takes him 15 minutes to get home from work and let's be honest, I'm usually dying for a second set of hands and someone to entertain our child). 

I've asked myself/decided a few things over the course of the day...1) why do I bother picking up the playroom???  I spent at least 20 minutes on cleaning up the toys and putting them in their designated bins yesterday while Ashley was at school.  In a matter of .2 seconds it looks like this:

Seriously, every single toy we own is on the floor!!  Arrrggghhh.  I think I should just clean the playroom once a week and just deal with the fact that you have to constantly step over and around things!

 2) my favorite time of the day is when Ashley wakes up, either in the morning or from her nap.  Not a day goes by that I don't crack up at this time of the day.  My alarm clock in the morning is almost always "MOM...MOMMY...WAKE UP!"  Yes, I could get up before my child does and get stuff done but for any of you that really know me know how much I love my sleep and getting up a minute before I absolutely have to is just absurd!  This afternoon when Ashley got up from her nap I hear her rustling around through the monitor for a little bit and then "MOMMY, ALL DONE, OPEN THE DOOR!".  So bossy and demanding but I can't help but chuckle.  She definitely puts a smile on my face. 

We had some girlie time before dinner and I gave Ashley a manicure - she loves having her nails painted.  It amazes me how girlie she is because I was never a girlie girl growing up but I do love it now especially when you get to share it with a little cutie :)

Shannon