The home inspection is today. I'm like insanely nervous. I need to get off my butt and change the cat box (which was changed on Sunday and scooped twice a day but I have no idea if other people smell cat box in my house because I'm pretty immune to it unless it's really dirty ( Read more... )

It is sleeting today. Yuck. I need to "briskly walk" one mile for my online gym class. that is hard to do with three kids and this yuck weather and not being a gym member. I want a treadmill so bad!!!!! It's hard to work out because the space I work out in suddenly became smaller in this house- not as much room to do my moves, even a lunge is ( Read more... )

Wow. Yay! Today was very productive. We got the lower kitchen cabinets in, the pantry in and all appliances in, except the microwave. Tomorrow we put on doors and mount the upper cabinets. Is it cabinets or cupboards? I keep interchanging the words and I am not sure if cupboards are something different than cabinets. Hm. Oh, and Ray laid the ( Read more... )

I got a good start on Rachael's room yesterday. I painted the ceiling and there is NOTHING worse than painting a popcorn ceiling. I had a special roller, but my hair was full of little popcorn pieces by the time I was done. Ew. Then I painted three walls pink and they just need the upper part of the wall done and a second coat. I am painting ( Read more... )

I am kind of bummed the kids will be going back to school today. OMG, I am missing homeschooling right now. *sigh* Rachael is excited to go back and see her friends. I think Trevor would rather eat swamp mud than go back to school. He has been making it quite clear he does not want to think about going back and every time we mention it he ( Read more... )

I have pictures of the kids on the other blog. Rachael was Cinderella, Trevor was a pirate skeleton and Ariel was a cat. They were all supercute. It was such a busy day, though, yesterday! I decided to head up to the library and volunteer on Friday, but got there 30 minutes early. I managed to make myself busy until 11:15 when Ariel was just ( Read more... )