It was so gorgeous outside today!  I didn't even realize it until about 3:00 when I needed a break from work, and when I got outside I really regretted not playing hooky.  What a perfect day to not go to work - it was warm and it was sunny and it was Friday. And you never know which day is going to be the last really nice day of the year.  Today just might have been it.

My son was born in late January, and I don't know about anybody else, but to me February 2008 felt like The Longest Month Ever Since The Beginning Of Time.  It was so snowy and cold, and I would sit on the sofa with this newborn, and we were trying to get to know each other, and I swear my whole maternity leave felt like one episode of Dr. Phil after another, and I would just think about how I couldn't wait for summer so we could be outside and take walks and hang out in the yard.  And now, in a flash, we have trees that are bare already and the first reports of snow flurries.  How did that happen?  It's like I blinked my eyes and my kid was nine months old and the summer was over.

 Well, I guess we can't do anything about it now; it's going to get colder.  One thing I am looking forward to is getting cozy on the bed with the husband and the kid and two cats and a pile of blankets.  I figure I have one more free winter before I will be forced to, *gasp*, go outside and play in the snow.  The horror!

 Man, I really, really wish I had called in sick today!