Colonial/Constitution Day

The middle school had Colonial/Constitution Day on Monday.  Josh has to dress up.  I cheated....found a costume on line and bought it.  I'm not handy enough to make one of my own.  He also had to do a report on Daniel Carroll from Maryland who worked a lot with George Washington.  (they were each assigned a special person to report on)

Gi Gi's

The danger of reading other people's blogs is that you try something they mentioned and you get hooked!!  Last Saturday Josh had football practice followed by a pizza/pool party.  Jenna and I didn't want to go to the pool and hang out with all the boys and men (none of the mom's ended up going) so we dropped Josh off and had girl time......guess what was about 6 miles away....Gi Gi's in Cary!  Jenna got a cupcake and I tried one of their new cheesecakes.  We were feeling so nice that we brought some home for dessert.  A couple of them got knocked down, but they still tasted good.  I really liked the strawberry one.  The banana one was really good too.  I didn't get to try Jacob's cookie dough or Joshua's cinnamon roll, but that's ok.....I had plenty of calories for the day:) (and week too)

bathroom re-do

I was sick of the cheap white floors the builder put down.  I'm convinced our builder took many shortcuts to this house.  We did our kitchen and our bathroom over a year ago, but now I wanted the last of the cheap white floors gone.  I love this kind of floor in that it was under $30 to do.  Unfortunately, this was one of the projects I started, messed up, got in too deep and had to have Jack rescue me, which is not what he wanted to spend his time on.  Thank you honey for helping.  I'm glad the white floors are gone.

trying again

so I'm still looking for ideas for my new computer corner and my kitchen.  I did move the microwave cart out of the kitchen and I'm getting rid of it.  I moved my dad's cabinet over by the door.  I'm not sure if I want to leave the microwave on top or if I want to move it to my countertop.

More changes and help!

So we are working on getting our house in tip top shape.  It takes one step at a time as money allows.  We wanted to move the ugly file cabinet and computer "desk" out of our room.  I'll show pictures of that later.  We found this cute little desk that fits perfectly in our living room.  It has a place where the kids can roll out a part so that they can use the computer or work on school work.  It also has a place for pens, paper etc.  I also love the little chair.  We moved the shelf to the kitchen.  First question.....should I put up anything over the desk and if so, any suggestions?  The desk is right beside the love seat and over the love seat we have a plate and two art works.  Second question....do you think the shelf looks ok in the kitchen?  I'm still looking for something for my bare wall.  I was thinking of maybe putting plates on display on it.  I might get my mom's blue willow china, and I could put some of that on display.  I really want to find a place for this shelf because my dad made it for me.  I miss having all the pictures on display, but I hope to make a wall collage in my room of all the photos. 

room makeover

For the past several weeks we have been working on the boys room.  We started off by giving their bunk beds away to someone in need.  While the beds were out, we painted the room orange.  Don't ask me why we went with this color.....I just wanted something different.  It was a pain in the neck.  I about cried the first night.  I went through a gallon of paint and could still see blue (the color before).  It took another gallon and a half to paint that small room.  Next, we got new beds for them.  We went with captains beds.  They now have their own drawers with their own clothes instead of sharing a dresser.  Our house is small, and the rooms are small, so with two beds in there, we really couldn't fit much in there.  Last, we added new comforters and a curtain and two shelves so they could each put their "treasures".  We are still looking for a small trunk or something small to put at the end of their beds because they seem to have a lot of "treasures".  We were also going to do carpet while the beds were out, but Lowes acted like they didn't care (and now they do) and the price was too high.  I think we will wait or maybe try to do it ourselves with carpet squares.

Baptism

About a month ago, Pastor started talking about having a baptism.  I didn't say anything to the kids about it.  A couple of Sundays later I was cooking lunch and Jacob and Jenna came in and said "we need to talk to you"....of course I was in the middle of something so my response was not good.....and then they told me they wanted to get baptized.  (ok, now I'm really feeling bad!!).  I told them they would have to talk to pastor and they wanted me to do it right away.  They asked me to text him and set up a meeting for that night and I did.  It was a great joy to see my children follow God and get baptized.  It was a great joy to see all 16 get baptized!!