Of Curtains, bruises, organization and more

Curtainage

Well, the lack of curtainage in our house is still trying to be remedied. I haven't been able to find anything for our Living room/Dining room. Or should I rephrase that as I haven't been able to find anything nice that was not extremely expensive for our living/dining room. So, I thought I'd try sewing something. Can you believe that curtain fabric and lining, 50% off mind you, would cost almost $100 a window! Scrap that idea. Tonight my Mom and I and some kiddies went to Jo-Ann and then after finding out the crazy price it would cost to sew curtains, we hit up JcPenney again (no success) and thought we'd try Boscov's. Ya'll, Boscov's has so cheap curtainage. I *think* I have found the curtains, yay! They were only $14.99, which is a bit different than Jo-Ann's price and I don't have to sew!

Bruises

Dear Son,

I do my very best to protect you in any way possible. I didn't think you could get into the bathroom and pull the new cabinet down on top of yourself yesterday. You are pretty dextrous little man. I had nothing to do with your bruised nose and lip today. Just for the record.

Love,
Mom

Organization

I am getting organized. I'm not naturally inclined to organization as is my sister, whom I affectionately refer to as the Organizational Guru, but I think I am realizing where I want to keep things in this house. I'm so glad. I was still asking Graeme to move back to Haas St. last week. :) I really do love our new house and above all love it's location, it's just taken me a long time to get my life back in order. It still isn't in order, but it's slowly getting there. I don't want to move again for a long, long time. :)

We passed a house in our neighborhood that is for sale, and the people finally sold it and were moving this weekend and it reminded me of how far we have come. It still seems like I am dissheveled, but I'm so glad I'm not packing everything in boxes right now. I'm thankful that is over. It was a very exciting time though!

And More...

Am I the only one who gets weird comments? I didn't think about my title on the last post perhaps drawing the wrong crowd. So, I changed the title, but even before that I get comments from people asking me to click on a link. I have never clicked, but is this normal? Is there something I am doing wrong? Who are these people? Just my question for tonight.

The male-ness runs thick in our family

There is a big construction site near our house with all sorts of construction equipment. As we were driving by, we were trying to figure out the names of all the vehicles. I didn't know what all the machines were, but our construction vehicle enthusiast child Elijah knew their names: articulated dump truck, bulldozer, excavator, compactor, pipe driller, etc. The love runs deep with him. Apparently, the testosterone runs thick because Sophia piped up from the back seat, "construction equipment is very versatile, Mom". My little girl has been totally endoctrinated with the maleness...quick get that girl a baby doll. :)

We now have four nails in the wall!

I am happy to report that we have our first pictures hanging up...in the children's bathroom no less. :)

This has been an unusual week for me. Last week I listed many items on ebay...I'm doing the spring clean out. I *thought* all of our information was changed with both paypal and ebay, and it was....except for one minor detail. The page where you create the listing was pre-filled with our old e-mail address. This "minor" problem has become a major problem and it's been interesting trying to convince people through e-mail that I cannot receive the payments that they are sending to me. :) There is a solution, but it's a little difficult. Some buyers have caught on and others haven't....I hope this doesn't hurt my feedback score. So it's been a week of frustration in some senses. In times like these I need to be reminded as we were in Sunday School this Sunday that all that happens to me happens because it is part of God's greater plan for my life. Somehow, it takes effort to think of that in the middle of a mini-crisis such as this. It's not a huge life crisis or anything, but it's just a little chipping away done by the Lord to create a more refined heart in me...if I stop and realize that that is just what is happending. I think that is one of my greatest challenges; realizing that my problem is part of God's plan for me and not simply reacting. An important lesson...learned from ebay? See buying and selling can be a spiritual thing. :)

102nd Way to use a plastic grocery bag

Isn't he such a handsome sticky, crumby, gooey, plastic bag wearin' boy! :)

Too Mutt Dunk!

When Elijah was a little younger he must have heard a lot about de-cluttering and organizing around the house because when his toys were a mess he used to say, "too mutt dunk!" (too much junk). I heartily agree! I am overwhlemed by all "da junk". Our move happened to fast that I had no time to further de-junk (or de-clutter to put it nicer ;)) so I am tackling it now. I listed things for sale on ebay this week, stuff on Craig's list and a whole WHOLE lotta yard sale stuff and I haven't even gotten through all the boxes yet. I hope our development holds a community wide yard sale and I hope it's not too soon because I need to get ready for it...wanna come!?

We went to the fish hatchery today and the fish fragrance still will not leave me. I've changed and washed my hands sooo many times, but I still smell the fish...yucky! TTFN!

Baby Has a Sandbox

Baby has a sandbox,

He fills it up with trucks,

He adds a few long necked giraffes

And little baby ducks,

He sprinkles in some little men

And little women too, Then stirs them all together

To make a sandbox goo.

Baby plays there until ten and then it's time for nap,

Mama comes and takes him in

Poor Mama's sandy lap.



But Mama doesn't mind at all her sand baby's toys,

'Cause Mama knows that life is best with sandy baby boys.

From the book: Good Morning Sweetie Pie A nice collection of poetry, by Cynthia Rylant and beautifully illustrated by Jane Dyer. My big kids really like this book, it's fun and the pictures are sooo pretty!

*I'm not sure that I have all the words right as I can't find the book right now so I wrote it from memory...yeah, that's how many times we've read this book. ;)

**Elijah 4/06 and Noah 4/08

A taste of things to come....

Because it is taking forever for us to hang anything on our walls (we've been too busy painting), here is a picture of the paint on our bedroom walls. There are "before" pictures on Antique Mommy's post on my now famous bedroom.

I am totally in love with the color. It was fun to paint a dark, rich color and I like waking up to it every morning. I also love my white furniture because even though it is dusty you can't see the dust. :)

Soon, it shall be done, I hope. I will post more pictures when we get the pictures on the walls.