dear mama

perhaps i'm feeling a bit sentimental right now.  that's very likely.

jason has more than supported my proclamation of "i gotta get outta here and take a break!"

 i'm by myself in la quinta, california.  california?  really?

sometimes i have to pinch myself.  am i really a girl from north carolina who has moved from north carolina to new jersey to california?

yep.  that's me.

i think i've always been a bit restless that way.  always needing to be in the "center of it all".  whatever that means...so here's to raleigh, new york and los angeles....

but by no means was it ever an excuse to get away from you and daddy.  that was never a thought.  it was simply me needing to spread by wings in the way i knew how.  once i figured out the kernersville wasn't the center of the universe (a HUGE shock to me by the way) i needed to see it all.

so here i sit.  last night i was cuddling with my best boy cashel.  we cuddle as much as possible.  it's both of our favorite form of entertainment.  i can't imagine life without my cuddles with cashel.  then i got to thinking.  i've heard some mothers say that their child isn't much of a cuddler.  how sad.  i cannot...cannot.....cannot imagine that.  it breaks my heart.  cashel would rather cuddle with me than drink chocolate milk....and that's a super hard thing to top!

mama.  my point is this.  when we are together - which is not nearly enough these days,  i want to cuddle with you.  as much as i would prefer to be the cuddler than the cuddlie, i will do it for you.  i know how special it is to be able to cuddle with your little one.

and cashel has reminded me how special it is to cuddle with mommy and i want to do that with you.

till this summer.....

a smattering of thoughts

i've looked back at posts and realized that i've really slacked off.

life.

its been really great lately. so much so it's gotten in the way of blogging.  i suppose there are worse problems to have.

where to start?

ok. i never blogged about his birthday.  back in november we had cashel's birthday party at griffith park.  this is the invitation:

then we had thanksgiving, christmas, new years, blah blah blah

you can see all of these awesome pictures on my flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/84024656@N02/sets

right now it's march.  last week's weather was awesome - mid to upper 70's!  this week we're back in the 60's.  booooooooo

we're so spoiled here in so cal!

let me think....some highlights (and lowlights) off the top of my head:

-the schedule between halloween and new year's just about killed me last year. we were way too busy.
-how do people with more than one kid do it?
-cashel was in a soccer/baseball class with an amazing coach - coach akeim with "little boy joseph" and celia
-cashel resumed gymnastics where he can jump jump jump
-cashel started a theater class at theater 360.  he is playing the big billy goat of "the three billy goat's gruff"
-we play hide and go seek every.single.day.as.many.times.as.we.can.fit.it
-we also play a lot of freeze dance
-his go-to birthday present for friends is napkins and a can of green beans
-cashel has little interest in actually skiing but really wants to throw snow balls at jason as he snowboards
-he is spiderman much of the time
-he'll approach me and say - "ok mom. i have to say something......tag you're it!" and he dashes off
-he says "i like pirates much more than many things"
-"dad, you're reading to me tonight?  that's not cool"

and my favorite....when we were in raleigh we were on the ncsu campus and saw the bell tower and he said, "dad! is that the tower that mom was in when you saved her from the dragon?" and our response? "yep"