Today was a day of rest for me. I was blessed with my most favorite birthday gifts ever: a spa day. Spa days rejuvenate me. They revive me. The comfort me. They relax me. They remind me that I'm still a human being, even though I'm immersed in kid-ness all day long. Kids just have a magical way about them.

Something that stood out to me, over the course of my wonderful relaxation day, is how tired I am. Multiple times today, I almost fell asleep. This is very unlike me. I think it's something that washes over mothers when their kids aren't around. When we finally get out of the high intensity alert mode, our whole bodies crash. It's like our brains finally say to themselves it's okay. We can relax now. And what happens when we relax? We fall asleep!

Everything today was exactly how I'd imagined it to be. I was blessed to enjoy the wonderful pamper day. The children and I had a lot of laughs this afternoon. Then I got to have adult conversation with one of my Army sisters. I learned about a couple of schools near my house that I'm going to talk to the Lobster about.

My back is still not back to normal, but I can move and function, just carefully.

I miss the lobster. I wish he was here.