Countdown Mode

It's Monday and my life is officially one big series of Countdowns! There are two more days until Matthew comes home again, 14 days until my birthday, 17 days till Ally's last day in day care, 24 days until my last day of work, 25 days until we start our vacation at the lake, 32 days until Matthew and I go away together for the first time to the Outer Banks (we're leaving Ally with her grandparents), and finally... 50 days until Matthew leaves for a seven month deployment. I'm really torn because I want to look forward to the first six events that I mentioned, but with each fun event comes the knowledge that our time together is going to be much too short. I'm doing my best to stay positive and to not get too upset and bitter, but it's going to be tough. As I've learned over the past 7 weeks that he's been away- a deployment with a baby is going to be a whole new ballgame for both of us. Okay- enough of that depressing stuff!

We had a nice weekend and once I got used to the quiet house again I was actually able to enjoy it and take a few naps! We had several visits from Ray & Dee- they babysat for Ally on Saturday afternoon so I was able to attend a luncheon for a friend. My friend Linette, whose husband is also out on the Bataan, came over for pizza and a movie on Saturday night- it was nice to have the company and to have someone with whom I could complain about this lousy work up schedule! Yesterday I worked in the church nursery and really enjoyed seeing how Ally interacted with the other babies in there. I think she's going to grow up to be the class clown type- she was a total ham and seemed to be trying to entertain all the adults- it was quite a kick. We had a nice lunch afterwards with friends Bonnie & Dean at Panera which was only slightly less enjoyable than normal due to an unfortunate incident of projectile vomiting of recently consumed green beans & bananas. Sorry about that guys- thanks for helping with the clean up! (Just in case it wasn't clear- Ally was the source of the projectile vomit!)

Here are a few pictures of our weekend- enjoy & thanks for checking in!

Silly girls!

Happy Ally

We sent this one to daddy with the caption "Ally loves you THIS much!"

Pretty in purple