sun=joy

(this is me. prancing with the birds in the sunshine. because sun=joy, don't you know?!)

we had a great day yesterday. yes, the mere sight of the sun is like a magic drug that makes us all inexplicably glad and positive and excited. my guess is it's most likely because we were created to be in the sun absorbing all that marvelous vitamin D. we were NOT created to be inside. that's why when we are inside, we are mad. and we want to be outside. it's the magic drug calling our name. so let me talk about why i'm high on vitamin D and love everything right now, especially yesterday and today.

1) this goes without saying, but: the weather...is...warm!

2) elias got to play at the playground at watson pond with his buddy aidan (and run around with sticks. and throw pine cones. good times!)

3) which meant that i got to hang out with yvette and chat (i had an adult conversation! with another mother! who's fabulous and pregnant, too! and i mostly kept an eye on my kids!)

4) and meant piper got to follow aidan around and make girly eyes at him. she might have been even happier than elias to see aidan :)

5) when i got home, i realized i got a little color on my face and chest. and i kept catching myself doing double takes like 'why am i pink?' and then i'd remember...and my heart was glad.

6) i got to take a nap. so maybe elias was knocking over lamps and jumping on the bed. i still fell asleep a couple times i think!

7) i spend some time in the backyard raking and realized my tulips were trying to push up through all the wet piles of leaves. tulips and lilacs are my faves and i want nothing more than vases all over my house filled with freshly cut flowers.

8) i was happy to rake. and yes, i was wearing a skirt. that's how i roll.

9) dave snuck home long enough for us to all go out and pick out some more paint swatches at home depot and get fried food for dinner (that's what baby wanted. gotta give 'em what they want!)

10) it was still light out after dinner!

11) i gave the kids a bath and read in bed while they splashed water all over the place. i'm reading point of impact, a stephen hunter book with bob lee swagger, the legendary sniper. (perhaps you remember the movie "shooter" with mark wahlberg. it was loosely based on this book.)

12) the kids went to bed, and i read in bed until dave got home. and then read some more. i didn't touch the dishes, i didn't clean the toy room, i didn't put the laundry away. i just...relaxed.

13) oh. and i'm PREGNANT! woo-hoo!

today is going to be another great day. i'm taking take eli and pip to the playground in west bridgewater to meet up with lee/cadie/jax/madie, and then i have the honor of helping to pick some paint colors for brockton christian. i LOVE paint. but, i'm sure you know that by now.

so what about you? is this sunshine making you all nutty happy cuckoo, too?

ain't no sunshine

(remember this?)

this may be my fault. i might have jinxed it.

i put my air conditioners in a couple weeks ago...and it's been raining and grey ever since. and ever since i put my shade up in my kitchen window the sun has refused to shine. i have yet to actually USE this shade. it has not moved. there has yet to be any sunshine in my eyes.

AND I AM ABOUT TO FREAK OUT.

it's JUNE.
almost JULY.

no sun presents a few problems. not including the fact that i am getting a little crazier every day.

1. there are about a thousand mushrooms growing in my new patch of sod. awesome.
2. miss piper is too big for all her warm clothes, so she's an a two or three outfit rotation, while all her pretty summer clothes hang in her closet. yuck.
3. and elias, is DYING to go swimming/go outside/do anything that is not inside, and it's been so wet and rainy, i haven't been able to exercise him like he needs (does that make him sound like my pet, or something? ah well. it's true).

our garden, on the other hand, will probably be a jungle by the time we get back from vacation. look at the bright side, right?! wait a minute...what does bright look like?

i need to be get a move on with packing and gearing up for vacation. and i swear i need vitamin D to be productive and get excited.
is anyone else like that?

for now, i am just waiting for the sun to come out. like annie or something. since pastor's wives don't have any more pull with God when it comes to weather, i guess i'll just have to be patient ;)
*sigh*

fickle fickle

yesterday: it was 65 degrees outside.
i mean, i wore a sundress...flip flops! and walked with elias down to one of our lunch spots, gilly's pub, after church.

it was warm. sunny. breezy.

what a difference a day made.

24 little hours.
and today: it is torrentially...snowing? weird. but so classic here in new england, isn't it?

it's hard for a gal like me not to get all excited when it's warm like it was yesterday. i'm immediately like, 'yay! spring is here! pack up the sweaters! hooray!'

truth is, if there wasn't still snow on the ground yesterday, i might have made a break for the beach. in march. mmm. a little crazy. but the sunshine makes me that way. all giddy and happy and silly and excited.

and today, i'm in my pajamas still. i took a two hour nap this morning (thank you Jesus dave is home on mondays). i haven't accomplished one single thing besides feeding myself and my children. and i'm totally fine with it. it's gross out. and it's wet and cold and snowy and windy and rotten. and i feel a little similar.

in light of this roller coaster of emotions, i've deduced that i am simply solar-powered. if there is sun, i am happy despite all circumstances. and if there is not...well, i can go either way.

it's a bit psycho, i think...
...and you know what? it made me think of how we love God. when we feel close to him- warm sun on our faces- we're invincible, positive, ready, willing, capable, adoring. but when the clouds get in our way, and we can't feel that warmth, we get all distant and cold and figure we'll just wait for the next sunny day.

it's so easy to forget, mostly because we are fickle like the weather (ahem, michelle), God is not fickle in the least. he never goes anywhere, even if we feel like he might have moved.

when you're omnipresent, getting away is probably pretty tricky.

so i'm working on keeping my sunshine going in the snow and rain and clouds and blah. because he's there. even when we like to pretend he's not.

anyone else out there fickle like new england weather?

"Am I only a God nearby," declares the LORD, "and not a God far away?" Jeremiah 23:22-24