Ok, taking a break as the kids are playing down here and my back is killing me from standing for so long. I've been doing lots of kitchen stuff (I forgot how much having daycare kids here during the day means I'm in the kitchen cooking, making snack, washing TONS of dishes, etc.)

 

Yeah, the thing tomorrow may actually be a good thing but I think I'm just ticked that we were lead to believe it was a small group thing. So, knowing that I'm ticked, it makes me want to boycott it. Plus, my good friends in the group won't be there. lol Dumb excuse. But, now that I have it in my head that we could have a date, I'd much rather do that.

 

We do have a large rug in the front hall when you come in. We could have a long one down the hall but I think it would look funny. Plus, I'm finding it almost harder to deal with the rugs than if I just have the empty floor space to sweep. I put it off more if there's things to deal with on the floor, as sad as that is! Changing that tile is most definitely on our short term to do list. The kitchen has the original tile (we think) so a lot of it is cracked plus it's off-white. Looks REALLY bad with the white with light green swirled ceramic. My word, I hate that white tile. I'd almost take the off-white, worn looking stuff over this bright, green swirly stuff. I think I'd go with darker tile so when picking out the counter, we're trying to keep that in mind. Very hard though!

 

lol, that's what I'm afraid of doing (like you did with the camera.) But, so far, I've managed. I want to hint to the girls too but then I know something will come out. We watched A Christmas Story and it just made me so antsy. I really hope my plan works!! Of course, it's been less than 24 hrs oh wait, just OVER 24 hrs! hehe 20 days to go!

 

That sounds like a cool store! I'm not sure we have one like that around here. Woohoo on the gift for your sister too. Very sneaky of you. lol

 

Hmm, so your sister won't participate in Christmas with you? That's a load off your shoulders if it is! I couldn't imagine jumping into Christmas right now having not celebrated it all my life.

 

I ended up finding small little craft/bead organizers and using egg cartons for the rest of the days (I think it only had 15 squares.) So, they looked bad and tacky but they worked and the kids were happy!

 

Good job on the thank you card!

 

Whoa, 3 months of meals?! Yeah, that's a lot! lol I wonder if the plain thing is a kid thing. My kids are pretty plain too.

 

Yes, I need to do the counters. augh, it's a big stress cause I'm afraid we'll pick the wrong one. I was that way a bit with paint but I knew that paint was relatively cheap and could easily be changed. Counters, uh, not so much. I see stuff I like, I just don't know if it goes with the cherry wood we have a lot of and I'd like to replace the cupboards way down the road with that. Plus the flooring. ack It's hard to picture that in my head and not care if it doesn't match now. of course, if it's absolutely gross, I won't go with that cause chances are, we'll have to live with whatever we choose for a while, without change. Ah, I hope that made sense. lol

 

Yup, that definitely sounds like Andrew's work. It just ticks me off HUGELY. If they're getting the work done, what is the big freakin' deal if they are 2 mins late? They expect you to be ready to go for 9 meaning you should actually be getting there beforehand and using that time to check mail and make your to do lists, etc. Um, sorry, no. If it's work related, it should be on work's time, not your own time. Andrew says all he has to do is walk in, sit down and turn on his computer and he's ready. he doesn't need 15 mins to do that.

 

Hmm, I've never heard of Pristiq. I wonder how I would have felt if I was on a time-release pill. I'm fairly sure mine was not.

 

I laughed my head off at reading about the 2 fighting cats. I almost feel that way with Timmy and Winnie. Though, one is human of course. Who knew I'd be a referee between a cat and kid?!

 

Ok, I think I answered what I wanted to! I'm REALLY hoping to be done daycare in 45 mins. Well, hopefully sooner but I'm not going to count on that. I will be quite disappointed if their dad shows up later than the normal pick up time. grrr I'm extremely wiped. Timmy went down for a later nap, almost 2 and I think it'll be a long nap because he went to bed late last night and woke up early. So, it would be awesome if I could catch a really quick cat nap with T after the kids go home. Shoot, Braelyn is supposed to be here 4-5. Hmmm I'll hope they'll be late. hehe

 

Working on some more baking. I'm hoping to whip up a choc. cake (I found it on this cool blog site pioneerwoman.com?? not sure of the exact site.) She claims it's the best choc. cake ever made. I've made her twice-baked potatoes (can you believe I've never made those before?) and Andrew loooved them, so did I. I'm making these muffins right now and I'm hoping to make another rave recipe of cinnamon rolls. I need some instant coffee for the icing though. Oh yeah, she posts these recipes from a Pastor friend, I think. I tried his pasta carbonara. It was quite good! I like these sites cause they usually post pictures, it comes from 'real' people so I tend to think the recipe will turn out if they say it will. And, it gives me the kick I need to make something good for my family.

 

Ok, gotta get off the chair before I fall asleep.