busy.

I apologize for my lack of words recently. I have been busy trying to be a good wife/nurse, go to work, keep the house clean, and general trying-not-to-lose-my-mind busyness. Things are going well here...we got another light dusting of snow today but I think most of it centered a little farther south (I heard that my parents got a nice bit from a too-cute text message from my mom...). I am off work tomorrow and I get to spend the next two full days with Chad and I could not be more excited.
I had these great plans for his valentine's present...he has some really neat photography that he has taken - close ups of flowers and water droplets on plants. I copied them onto a CD and was going to take them to work with me and get them printed at Wolf Camera after work. Well...I accidentally left the pictures pulled up on my computer and Chad saw them while I was gone. So, basically he knows what I am doing for him and so I told him he could come help me pick out mats and stuff for it tomorrow. I still want to do something for him that is a surprise but I am literally out of ideas...help me out folks!

worse nurse.

I still feel like an even worse nurse when I leave him all day to go to work...he is really doing good now. He can do pretty much everything for himself and is much more mobile so maybe I just feel bad that I can't stay home and hang out with him all week like I really want to. It might be worth taking vacation time for but I am also thinking about saving all of it so when we buy a house I can take a few days off to move-in and start getting things like we want them.
It is pouring rain at the moment but thankfully not cold enough to freeze quite yet because I have no choice but to drive myself to work! Gwendolen would not get out of bed and leave Chad long enough to go walk this morning so he has to walk her when he gets up. Wooby on the other hand was up plenty early this morning and has had a lot to talk about...like how she sprinkled dried cat nip all over the living room rug and then wallowed in it with great pleasure the other night while we were watching the Super Bowl. She is mad at me for vacuuming it up yesterday morning and is still yelling at me for it...
Not too much to report. Chad and I are trying to decide what we are going to do for V-Day this weekend. Something low key that doesn't require a lot of physical activity (which is quite opposite from most of our activity plans!). Yoga class tonight then NCIS...I love Tuesdays!

inhale, exhale.

I could not breathe a bigger sigh of relief that I do not have to work tomorrow - that HL is always closed on Sundays. We will miss church for the second week in a row (services were cancelled last week due to the weather craziness) and Chad doesn't feel like he is quite ready to make it off the couch for that long just yet. It will be so wonderful to just spend the day hanging out with him. I have absolutely hated leaving him at home every day this week then coming back and being so tired that I'm not too much entertainment anyway...
We are deep in the house hunting madness. It is really public knowledge now anyway...we would really like to buy by April to take advantage of the tax credit but this process is so arduous and frustrating. I think I also have a lot of hesitation about such a big purchase! It is a big deal to make the right decision and I have no clue what the right decision it...terrifying.
I also think I have an idea in my head of what I want and (not saying I am spoiled or have expensive taste or anything...cough, cough) but I am sure we can't afford what I would really love to have. I know that we can do a lot of inexpensive things to make it our own but I am just terrified of buying something only because we can afford it and getting a house that we don't really love.
Oh dear...
Other than that...it was a good day. HL was super busy so I am pretty tired and need to figure out what we will do for dinner. We are possibly getting more snow tonight - thankfully we have no place to be tomorrow!

quotation.

This is a direct quote from my Chad..."When you get on your blog next time, please thank everyone for checking up on me."
So there.
Thank you.

thank you!

Thank you for your prayers...Chad and I got back home from the hospital about 11 after stopping at the drugstore to pick up pain meds and antibiotics. He is doing well - lounging on the couch preparing to play two weeks of video games while healing. He is a little snuggly and needy in a really sweet way so I don't mind one single bit; it is nice to be needed and wanted.
We are going to hang out (currently watching the TN governors "state of the state" address on the budget...I know, we are exciting folks!), watch movies, and enjoy each other until I have to go back to work tomorrow. Ugh!