Busy, busy, busy.  Seems as soon as you get one day that remotely says that Spring is here, the buzz starts.  The house seems less gloomy, curtains are opened wide, winter cob webs are removed and the world wakes from it’s winter coma.  We’re suppose to get in the 60’s tomorrow and I can’t wait.  It’s my day off and I’m looking forward to taking Gavin outside for some much needed fresh air.  Unfortunetly, Spring also means.. the dreaded spring cleaning.  We need it bad.  I swore that over the winter I would spend just 15-20 minutes each day in my basement, and figured I have it cleared out by spring.  But did I follow through? Nada.  For starters, my computer is in the basement. So I may start of going down there to organize, but then end up "taking a break" and sitting at the computer.  We want to house shop this year, so I know we’ve got to get it done eventually.  I’d love to just have a few days alone at home to get it done.  I don’t know why, but I hate trying to clean or organize around Dave.  He turns into this General and ruins my whole motivation to want to get organized.  Kind of like how when you were younger and you had to do chores.  You knew you had to do them, but when your parents remind of those chores, it maked you want to do them even less.  It’s like this extra little dig that really annoys me.  Plus, I keep imagining getting into these little tiffs with Dave as we’ll probably disagree on several things regarding the whole "keep-toss-donate" scenario.  Ugh, I just don’t want to deal with it.

This past weekend was great.  Dave was off Sunday and Monday.  My normal weekend is Saturday thru Monday; and ordinarily, when Dave is off the same days, I end up going crazy.  I can’t be around him 24/7, I just can’t do it.  But this weekend was quite pleasant.  Dave called home Saturday to say that since he is off, why don’t I book a room at the Sterling Inn.  The Sterling Inn has a little indoor water park.  So that’s what we ended up doing.  We took off mid-Sunday afternoon, it’s only about half an hours drive, and we spent one night at the Sterling Inn.  We truly enjoyed ourselves.  The water park there is, of course, much smaller than say those at Great Wolf Lodge where we go at least once a year, but we really needed this little get away, even if for only a night.  Gavin had a blast. He just loves the water park.  It was his naptime when we left home, thinking he’d take a little cat nap during the drive, but he faught it the whole way.  At one point he drifted off and in his sleep was reciting, "I wanna go to the water park."  We were cracking up.  Pictures here are just promotional pictures I found on the net, but I took several while we were there, I’ll post some this week.  I know I still need to post pics from date night last weekend.  Dave and I were pretty intoxicated and got pretty silly, it shows in some of the pictures.  I’ll try and get those up tonight after Gavin is in bed.  My sisters visit 2 weekends ago was great. She was here for my neices birthday. It was great to see my neices again.  They’re growing up so fast.

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