weekend update:

-eric mowed the lawn. i offered, but he did it. and that is because he is awesome and i am lucky. no other real explanation there.
-i did weed around the tulips and hyacinths.
-i planted the petunias and lots of other plants i purchased on saturday morning. BUT i couldn't have done it, at all, without the help from rachel, katie and ali who came over and got dirty with me... and held the baby while i got dirty.
-we planted the hanging baskets.
-i completely forgot about the sunflower seeds, yikes! they're still in my purse. have to get them out next weekend, i suppose.
-didn't trim the bushes, woops.
-didn't purchase deck chairs or table. eric is in the process of redoing our kitchen and we had to unexpectedly call a plumber last week to reattach the sink that he successfully took apart but needed help reattaching since the size of the new counter was different... bye bye furniture budget!
-i would like to think i was a good mommy.... while eric was off having bachelor party extravaganza with some friends, i took care of adam all weekend. he had some potty issues, causing his first awful diaper rash... let's just say, it was not pretty. or nice-smelling... ick.
-almost forgot, i taught yoga on sunday night! woo-woo!

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courage....

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ~theodore roosevelt