Good-bye January...HELLO February!

Thank goodness January is nearly over!!! This month truly might have come from the devil himself and I will wave good-bye to it with a smile on my face, without looking back.

Alex has been EXTREMELY busy at work ever since Christmas was over. His job requires submitting applications for this year's projects and this year Alex was solely responsible for completing them. I don't have a very good grasp on what this entails but I do know that he was out of the house before the sun was up and didn't get home until the sun went down. He went into the office on weekends and worked through the holidays that he should have had off. He then got disgustingly ill for about three weeks of the month which meant he had very little energy to go around once he got home. Most nights he either went to bed right after dinner or once the kids went down for bed. He worked so hard and I'm so proud to be a wife of such a hard-working man, but all of his hard work and time at the office meant all of that time I was spending alone with both kids. Not all of you may understand what a chore that was but let me tell you, I'm greeting the month of February with sommersaults and cartwheels!

I'm pretty sure Cale and Riley have had enough "mommy time" and are ready for some one-on-one time with Dad. I can be pretty cool but not for that many consecutive days!

As I type this I am reminded of an article I read in Parents magazine. It was written by a single mom who was so tired of hearing other moms complain about what their husbands did wrong, such as not putting on a diaper correctly or forgetting to put the bottle back in the fridge. The single mom was, rightfully so, annoyed that these moms were fretting over such little things when what they should have been doing was been grateful they had a partner to help raise their children.

Yes, I was exhausted this past month and my patience was tested day after day, but at the end of it all I am just thankful that Alex is my partner in this great journey of parenting. My hat goes off to the moms out there that do it all by themselves. I certainly could not and I have great respect for those who can and do.