Good Morning Everyone!! Went to the gym last night and man it makes a difference!! I didn’t get that much sleep last night, but I still feel great!! Tyler also took a long 2.5 hour nap yesterday so I had some time to get things done and relax.

Sunday Lorena and Bryan invited us over for some fun in the sun. We had such a great time! Tyler had a blast in the pool and then took a good nap. We have a ton of cute pics that Chris took. It was just nice to have a lazy day at the pool..not worry about chores. We just hung out with the fam. At the end of the day we went and got some yummy Greek food which I hadn’t eaten in a while.

I was really getting tired by the end of the day - I think the weekend had worn on me as I had gotten up early with Tyler both days and hadn’t gotten a lot of sleep. Sunday night, Tyler woke up three times, so I was a zombie Monday. I am so glad that I went to the gym anyway, because I just felt better. It was a real wake up call that going to the gym MUST be a priority for me.

In other notes, my Dad is really starting to change. It is sad to watch a person slowly deteriorate. I am so happy that we have Tyler and are spending as much time as we can with him. My Mom and I have become much closer through this as we have both become caretakers at the same time. It has been so nice to have her to lean on. And Dad loves Tyler - he gets such joy from his grandson….

I will leave you guys with some shots of Tyler swimming in his Aunt and Uncle’s pool.

I could get used to this lazy day in the pool stuff!

Uh, Mom I dropped my rings….

Hold on tight Grandpa!

Tyler thinks his Aunt is funny!

Well, couldn’t do that so here it is:

Tyler took a 2 hour nap right after I got home from Susan’s today. He hadn’t taken a monster nap like that in a while. I miss that part of the daycare routine. Anyway, I got everything on my list done while he was asleep. Most of it was phone calls and bill paying.

Anyway, I felt so much better!! Just getting some time to myself and getting some things done really lifted my spirits. So, tomorrow is Friday and I am feeling MUCH better. Thinking about using my Mother’s Day Spa gift certificate SOON!

The other day Chris and I gave Tyler a double “kissy attack” - that is where we both give him little kisses all over his little cheeks and face. He giggled - it was so cute….

Sometimes I think we could all use one of those….though, we might be a little more selective about who gives them to us… :-p

Ya know - overall this has been a crappy week and I don’t know why. As I told Charles, just life I suppose - ups and downs and all. I have been tired and my brain has been scattered. I have had a hard time focusing at work. Dunno, Friday will be here soon and I will have the weekend to re-energize.

I guess the thing I feel the worst about is that Chris bears the brunt of my moods. He thinks I blog and say negative things about him, because when I am upset I say some not so nice things. What he doesn’t know is that by the time I get to my blog, I feel at fault and awful about the episode. In the end, I had a bad day and took it out on him….

Tyler uses up a lot of my patience, so on days when I am tired, I have less of that to go around. Dunno… I think the hardest part about having a child is that your time is so incredibly limited and your schedule is fairly unpredictable. You have to manage your life around that and it can be hard.

I have always held fairly unrealistic expectations for myself. Couple that with my fear of failure (see June 16th blog) and you see that I create a daily “no-win” situation for myself. Just another life lesson that Tyler will force me to learn and one that I have needed to learn for quite some time….. I don’t want my child to go through life beating himself up like I do. I need to model more healthy behaviours, ya know?

Anyway, need to get back to work. Thanks for listening…hope you enjoy the Tyler pics.. They always bring me a smile even on a not so great day..

So the other day when I was blogging about my neo-soul mood, I received a recommendation to check out Robi Draco Rosa, “Mad Love”. Wow…great stuff! He is hard to categorize - the closest I can come to is a Latin Sting - even then maybe just Sting because his music isn’t just “Latin”. Some songs have a Latin flavor, but his music is so rich and covers several different genres. He can be soft and romantic, rock out, be jazzy, and several blends in between. He has some great hooks and writes great music.

I recommend “Lie Without A Lover”, “Crash Push”, “California”, “Try Me”, “Solitary Man”, and “Never Know the Truth”… I guess the whole album really - I am on song 11 (of 16) and have only found one song and was so-so. Kind of reminds me of John Mayer - stuff you could listen to again and again without getting bored….

Thanks for the recommendation! So nice to find good music that would have escaped my attention…

I like being naked in the bath because I have easy access to my toes and can get them into my mouth…watch this: