It's quiet tonight...

My mom & dad are watching Jack and giving us the night off tonight. ( I really had to twist their arms.) It's so lonely and quiet when he's not here. It's always nice to be able to catch up on housework (& SLEEP!) or accomplish an errand more quickly, but gosh, I miss him.

I needed to go shopping tonight for a new outfit to wear to a wedding we will be attending in Tuscaloosa this weekend. Honestly, people - I hate shopping for clothes. Sweet Fancy Moses. Precious Phillip labored through the process with me...and despite THREE hours of looking we came home empty handed. I am certainly not a skinny person, but my caboose can very easily fit into just one seat in a movie theater - so why can I never find clothes to fit? Do men have this problem? Do other women have this problem, or is this just my own personal cross to bear? Geesh, I seriously feel like I have been beaten. What a crappy way to spend the evening. There, I feel better now. =)

Tomorrow is a day of housework and unfortunately more shopping for me. We're leaving on Saturday morning for this wedding - one of Phillip's high school friends is getting married. Jeremy, Marsha, Spencer and the GrandDuncans will all be there. We'll be meeting Phillip's parents on the U of A campus at the bookstore before lunch. It makes me feel a little nostalgic thinking about it because it was at that same bookstore we told them (with an ultrasound photo in a frame that said "Bama's littlest fan!") that we were expecting. I think it came as a great surprise, and it was just the neatest day. So, Jack will be returning to that bookstore on Saturday, only this time much bigger than the" gummy bear" he was at the time. Goodness, that makes me want to cry. (OK, so I admit, I am actually crying.) I just can't believe how big he is!! As I close, I'll post a recent picture of him, taken shortly after waking up one morning.

Goodnight - and Happy St. Paddy's Day!