A near perfect day

Today was a near perfect day! It might sound weird but I LOVE Saturdays that are full of being at home with the two special people I love the most - and I truly enjoy cleaning, laundry, shopping, and cooking. I love the feeling at the end of a day when all is quiet and clean and all the lamps are on in the house. and nothing is left to be done Awww, let me tell you about our near perfect day.

It started with us bringing Bella into bed with us while she was waking up. And, then we had a great 45 minutes of playing/tickling/laughing in pj's! Then breakfast of eggs and sausage made by the hubby. The little gal went down for her long morning nap (3 hours, praise the Lord!) That gave me time to clean out two closets (we organized and cleaned her closet since I still had some of her 3-6 outfits in there...am I in denial or what?), clean the whole house, do the weekly shopping at Walmart, start the laundry, and make turkey chili in the crock pot. Then, the little cutie got up, she ate her lunch - cheese, banana, bread, green beans. We did some major playing with toy eggs from last Easter. We went shopping at Target (I told you it was a near perfect day - hence, the Target trip). We came home. She ran around and around the couch playing peek-a-boo. I finished laundry. Finished supper. Had supper. Played some more. Put the laundry up. Pushed Bella around in the laundry basket. Listened to her cute squeal. Gave the cutie a bath. Rocked her to sleep. And, now i'm sitting in a clean house with clean clothes and grocery shopping done. This near perfect day gets better because tomorrow is truly a Sabbath! - a day of rest - a day of enjoyment with those you love. awww. Love it! And, could this day get better? Yes, I think so. "How", you ask? Well, my little gal gave me kisses today for the first time! We can now ask for a kiss and she'll plant a big, wet one right on our lips. Precious! Mike and I usually just look at eachother with that look of "did you see that" when she kisses.

I haven't gotten pictures of that yet but I hope this will suffice for now.

She had her first Valentine's Day party at day care. Mike walked in the door with Bella and her little goody bag of Valentine favors and I had a near-breakdown. What? My kiddo is not big enough to be getting Valentine's or bringing things home that she "made". Isn't it adorable? The feet and arms on the cute "Happy Valentine's Day" heart are her hand and foot prints. That is refrigerator or photo frame worthy! I'm still surprising myself, y'all. I never thought I would be the type of mother who thought these little were adorable. My, my, how things change when it's your kiddo. I'm loving this mom stuff!

Here she is coming around the corner to "scare" me.

Enjoy your day everyone and the Sabbath tomorrow!