Catching up from the weekend? Check out the posts & weekly features:

• Roasted Eggplant Panini (recipe) & Elliptical Intervals
• How Do YOU Define Sexy?
• Dinner With Friends & A Day at the Park
• This Week’s FFF Features – Butt Burners & Baby B Video
• Self Love Reflection of the Week: Inner Beauty

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So, the last two nights were pretty rough. Rough with a capital “R”. Actually, I take that back. They were ROUGH in all caps. What happened to my easy sleeper?

Someone once asked me what mothers do when they are short on sleep. Well, I know first hand this morning so I will tell you.

I toss my hair back in a ponytail and throw on sweats. I don’t recommend this every day, because prettying up in general helps me feel better, but sometimes its just downright necessary.

On the especially hard days, I do turn to caffeine. Oh, the sweet nectar of the sleep-deprived come to me!!

I bite my tongue a lot. I pray a lot.  A calm demeanor is not my virtue when tired.

And I just do it. I get through because I have to. Sometimes with tears and that’s okay too. It passes. I keep telling myself it passes.

That’s all I can muster for a post right now. So, pretty please with a cherry on top click over to my guest post at Samantha from Bikini Birthday’s blog. Trust me that you would much rather read that post than anything sleep-deprived I could whip up right now.

Question of the Day – What do you do when you are sleep deprived, but can’t get a good nap?

I had no clue what to title this post, so I just went with “No Clue”. Don’t you just love my creative genius? *cough* Yet again, I need the sarcasm font that is yet to exist.

So, did you all have a fabulous weekend? We sure enjoyed ourselves around these parts! It’s amazing what a social life and some sunshine can do for a person.

Some of our good friends invited us over for dinner on Saturday night. I could not turn down a chance to get out and enjoy the company of some of my closest pals.

It was a full house with us girls, the husbands, and the four kiddos. In my opinion, a house full of friends is never a bad thing. Just like dinner cooked by my friend Angie is never a bad thing. She prepared a wonderful salad and pasta dinner for us.

What goes better with salad, pasta, and a Saturday night than a small glass of wine?

Nothing. That’s what I say. Well…except for maybe a small plate of dessert…

Lemon curd pie and a “magic cookie bar”. They’re magic because they’re super duper healthy! I like to play pretend like all of our little ones too. 😉

Today the good stuff continued. We went to church in the morning, with plenty of time to spare. It felt nice to go unrushed. The afternoon continued much in the same calm demeanor. I leisurely went grocery shopping without children. Then, took in some sunshine and 70 degree temps with the family.

The park!!! I have missed the park. Free and fun family entertainment? My kind of way to spend the afternoon. And the perfect way to break up the ickiness of January and February.

It felt incredible to get outside. What’s that you say? Oh. Rain tomorrow. Well at least we got out while we could!

Question of the Evening – Did you get to enjoy nice weather this weekend?