Happy 30th Birthday, My Love!

Today is my husband's 30th birthday!  (I'm about to turn 33 in April, and most of his friends are my age, so it's old news for him, already, but we had fun, anyway.)  The only thing that gets me this far into the winter without curling up under the covers for 3 straight months, is my husband's birthday on Feb. 28th.  And this year, I had my son's first birthday on Jan. 6th, too, so it was even better!  Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), however, is in full effect, no question.  And then being sick on top of it, I feel badly for my husband, today.  He said, "Babe, I can tell in your demeanor that you don't feel well, at all."  I did manage to make him a fab dinner of steak and baked potato, with cupcakes and ice cream for dessert.  I think that made up for my "sickly demeanor", lol.  I'm pretty sure he was hoping for a special "gift" after the boy went to bed, but it just isn't in me.  Hopefully, the steak and potatoes were enough for tonight.  ;)

The real festivities were Friday and Saturday last weekend.  I set us up to have massages together Friday, then we checked in to a hotel where we got a room with a jacuzzi tub and went to dinner at a fancy Italian restaurant where the food was delicious.  Everything we did I either got for 50% off on Groupon, or through some other deal website like Restaurant.com.  It was nice having my brother and then my mother-in-law keeping the boy for the night, so that we could enjoy each other for a day!

Saturday, we got up and headed to our friends' son's first birthday party (always a blast to watch DJ play with other kids around his age, not to mention the refreshing flush of clean energy that engulfs me when I get to hug my girl, who I've known since we were in middle school, maybe before) and came back home in time to clean up and host a "surprise" party at our place with all D's friends.  It really wasn't a surprise, because the three of us got sick on Wednesday, so I had to tell him, in case he wasn't feeling up to it and I had to cancel.  But, luckily, it all went well.

But guess what... I'm EXHAUSTED.  lol  I can't wait until the day when I can blog and say that I'm NOT exhausted.  It has to happen, eventually, it has to.  I took two naps today and at 9:30pm, I'm ready to go to bed.  I can't help but laugh, because I sort of feel like a gerbil in an exercise wheel.  No matter how fast I run, or if I just sit in one spot and do nothing, I'm still in the same place, and I still feel just as tired.  lol

Tomorrow is the last day that I don't have to leave the house for something until into next week, so I guess I'll get started on my rest for the night.  Hopefully, between tonight and tomorrow, I'll be much closer to healthy.

As the saying goes, "Laughter is the best medicine," so here is a video of the first time that DJ ever laughed!