Spring Break is Over!

It is already nearing the end of April. I can't believe it. It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating mom's birthday in Annapolis. That's Anna taking a picture below of Main St, downtown. It was a really fun day. Levi had to go to the bathroom 600 times before we left to get on the road home, though. I still can't figure out if he was pulling my leg or if he really had to go. #kids

Bought me my standard sweatshirt. <3 nbsp="" p="">

Mom enjoyed herself, too. She had a light salad for lunch, but then ate a snickers bar and had hot chocolate for a treat later. Rock on!

Since then we've had some fun things happen, but mostly Levi was on spring break for about a week and a half. He had his friend Sean over to play one day and had a few baseball practices in between. We saw daddy get promoted with the Army and made a glorious cake for Easter.

Overall, this is what spring break looked like... LOL. With me working at home and Isaac gone, there tends to be more iPad time than I care to admit when he's not in school, but hey, ya gotta do what ya gotta do sometimes. 

Now that spring break is over things are downhill until the end of the school year. We've got teacher appreciation week to tackle, more baseball games, April picture projects to finish, the school picnic, and his Kindergarten graduation. And with summer around the corner we've got Tiffany and Mariah's graduations to look forward to (yay family fun and parties!), Outer Banks beach vacay, and a trip to Florida in July. WOO! A full schedule and we are full steam ahead! 

Sports mom.

I love baseball. It's so American and country.

I've dreamt of the day when I could be a sports mom, driving my kids around in a truck to practices and games for baseball or soccer and cheering them on from the sidelines.

Levi made me a mom and he also made me a sports mom!

There's something special about having a little boy to share the sports team life with. And whether you as a parent used to play sports yourself or not, it's still so much fun to watch them be a part of something that develops character and physical skills.

Ever since Levi turned five I've been wanting to sign him up for some activities. Typical mom-guilt had me feeling like I was behind on the sign-up curve and he would be too big up against some of the other kids. Much to my surprise, he seems to be one of the teeniest ones on his team. I don't know why I stress sometimes. Pressures of Instagram and Facebook feeds have me like (insert embarrassed emoji). But then, I sip my wine, text my bff who gets me, and it's all OK.

Levi's first tee-ball game was today. It's spring here in NOVA, but it was not a picturesque spring day with flowers blooming and birds chirping. It was your typical "April showers" day, if you will. Cold, rainy, and muddy.

This past year, starting with Kindergarten last fall, has been quite a whirlwind. Lots of firsts have taken place: carpool lines, learning to read and write, taking swimming lessons and finally, joining tee-ball. It's all been wonderful.

Tee-ball has been a special edition to my heart, ending the school year on a high note and entering spring with a bang. I love the dirt and the sound of the bat hitting the ball while summer is just around the corner. Cotton candy and hot dogs for sale, and the heat creeping upon us.

Despite the mud and rain and cold it was a great day. One that I'll mark in my books as remembering always. Levi did something with others, in a uniform, that he has loved for years. He was assertive, he is making new friends, he had fun and he made me a sports mom.

Fit to the Beats

Hi.  My name is Melissa (cry laughing emoji).

I haven't written in a MINUTE. I mean it's been a WHILE.

I like writing. I do. But I've been distracted. And I haven't known what to write, honestly.

So, here I am. January 29th, a random day, writing.

It's 8:26. And I'm sitting on my bed, listening to Ed Sheeran. I'm trying to get inspiration while I hold out for the moment I turn Hulu to catch up on D.C. (Dawson's Creek).

I just put Levi to bed. He thought it was funny because when I was reading our story tonight, I read it in an English accent. That kid cracks me up. It was funny. (I secretly wish I had one, an accent that is).

I also secretly wish I had my own fitness studio, right in Old Town, teaching dance fitness classes to ladies, moms, who want to burn calories while having fun to good music.

Fit to the Beats was born the day I realized I loved to workout to music. To the beat. With steps. And a repetitive routine. I''m not talking some remix of 'Good Vibrations' while doing squats. I'm talking 'Can't Stop the Feeling' Justin Timberlake step-touch, add the arms, tap the feet, FEEL THE BEAT, workout. My heart.

Listen...working out is hard some days. Brutal even. Some days...you just don't wanna do it. PERIOD. But when you feel the beat to songs you love and beats you love, with moves you love...you've got a win.

You're driving down that windy road in your truck, windows are down, that song comes on that you love. What do you do? You picture yourself dancing, singing, on stage, like a pro, with a million in the crowd watching you. Don't deny it, you know it's true. That is what working out to music is like. Taking all those moves you envision in your head, putting them to music with each beat and repeating moves to the choruses and verses. Feeling the beat to EVERY move you make. Working it out to EVERY move. Envisioning yourself  taking on the world. Feeling empowered.

Enter...Fit to the Beats.

Music. A workout to the beat. Every step, every time. Let's do this.