rain, rain ... thank god you're here!

This, my friends, is our forecast for the next few days:

Now, usually, I would be all,

"Rain?!?!? You have *got* to be kidding me?!?!?! I hate the rain. We'll be stuck in the house...with nothing to do!!!!!!"

But, in all honesty, John and I have been excitedly checking the forecast over the last few days making sure that it would be raining all.weekend.long. At one point he was on the Weather Channel and screamed,

"Ack! They have just clouds on Sunday. JUST CLOUDS!"

So we had to switch it to NBC's HD Weather which still promised us rain. Thank goodness!

So what's up with the love of the rain? Well, the fact of the matter is that I'm tired. Really really tired. You see, John has been out of town 4 of the last 5 weekends (you know, since Labor Day). Three of the four weekends was just me and the girls. The fourth one (last weekend), I'm still hungover recovering from. The one weekend he was home? Well, that was Sweet Baby A's birthday so it wasn't what you could call "quiet."

Since I'm so freaking worn down from these last few weeks that I'm relishing a quiet weekend stuck at home. There's talk of movie (and, of course, football) watching. Maybe making some chili. Maybe even baking some cookies. There might even be an attempt to make the girls' Halloween costumes. But other than that we're plan-free.

And, right now, that's the way I like it.