Looking Up

Life is improving in leaps and bounds over here suddenly.

Misterpie has been taking a course that took every Saturday I wasn't at work as well as one evening, while I work two other nights. Add in soccer another night, swimming lessons on the day off and a few bouts of illnesses, and it's been a whirlwind.

But suddenly, we're approaching the end of the tunnel. Spring is here, and with it the end of cold and flu season, warmer weather with less layers, and lighter evenings. Misterpie's Saturdays are done, and he has only a couple more evening classes. There are only one more swim class and one or two more nights of soccer.

The Bun has started sleeping through consistently - oh frabjous day! Calloo, callay! - so I am better rested than I have been in a couple of years. Does that ever make a difference.

I have some new dresses in my closet, and have found that my old favourite summer skirts fit just fine (though I need new Tshirts to replace some warped and shrunken old one older than my children), so I can go to work feeling fairly put together, which I appreciate.

And best of all, Misterpie and I have managed to take people up on babysitting offers twice in the past month and go out for dinner! Alone! Without children! It was wonderful. And we've found that we enjoyed it so much, now that can do it without worry because The Bun is sleeping reliably (he doesn't wake well), that we are resolving to start going out for a date night! Just once a month, which we think we can manage, but is still a major step up from once or twice a year. A chance to reconnect, badly needed after such a manic spring. It's like a tiny slice of heaven.

All put together, I feel like I'm emerging from darkness into light, and am looking forward to an even more relaxed summer, with some vacation time coming, The Bun moving to the same care site as Pumpkinpie, and Misterpie off, as well. If we manage to finish off the last bits of the closet and sort the remaining boxes out of our house over the summer with some of that time, I might just be the happiest kitten alive.

Aaah...

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On a separate note - I am holding a giveaway on my review site for older kids and teens books - kittenpie reads kidlit. I will be drawing a winner at the end of this week, so if you would like a shot at winning a copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, go on over and drop a comment!