Top Secret

My life is very full right now and I am very excited, but if I tell you anything more, I would have to kill you.

I can only talk about the sad things. For the past month, and probably for at least the coming month, Mike has been working out in East Texas during the week and coming home only on the weekends. This week because of bad weather, he was not even able to come home on Friday night. The week before that he only stayed Friday night and had to leave Saturday afternoon because he had deadlines on Monday that meant millions of dollars for the company. My time with him has been very limited.

The upside is that we have been going out on actual dates on the weekends and we enjoy each others company more. I also have more time during the week to work on the other stuff I am not currently talking about.

I absolutely adore my baby girls. I am having so much fun and taking so much time to play and learn with them and read to them. It makes it really easy when Anastasia says things like "You are the best mom in the whole world." I was taking dinner out of the oven tonight and she gasped like she had never seen me before and said "You're so pretty. That's why you need a prince." I said, "That's why I have Daddy." We have successfully played Candy Land a couple of times, but it does not work if anyone else is with me and the babies. They do not have the attention span to sit through anybody else's turn besides mine and sisters.

I have a rough draft for a research paper that is due tomorrow that I have not started, but I have a hard time caring because it doesn't matter what I write, the teachers say "nice job" and give me full credit. Getting mediocre feedback inspires me to be a mediocre student. Why excel when there is no reward for it? I only say that because of the massive amounts of mental energy that I put into my assignments. It is not an effective use of my time--except that I am using every paper I write as something that ties all of the knowledge of my other classes together to eventually become a book.

I am super sleepy. Good night.