Changes

Stella and I are thinking about moving out to Burlington. There may be some big changes in store for us :)

Stella @ Four

Stella learned how to shake hands and to drop and roll this winter and she's also trying to grow out her bangs. I hate growing out bangs, wonder what she thinks about it. Poor thing, I think they make her look sad.

The Verdict

I spent Sunday afternoon putting the last coat of paint on the scrap room walls. Yesterday, I took off the painters tape and cleaned the room. What I've learned from the whole experience is to never pick up a paintbrush again. I've evolved into a SH!TTY painter. I used to be a good painter but I can't see well enough to do a good job painting around a ceiling. Funny thing is that I see well enough to see all the mistakes AFTER I'm done! The only fix now would be to paint the ceiling to match the walls and I am not about to do tackle that one!
Oh well, I'm going to call it good enough and keep my fingers crossed that no one looks up when they come into this room.

Painful Convenience

In our previous house, I had to climb two flights of stairs to do laundry. I hated it. I couldn't wait to have a main floor laundry room. I finally got one almost ten years ago.

I've just realized that what I hate about having a main floor laundry room is that you also have another room that needs to be scrubbed down on a regular basis.

You know, I don't think climbing stairs would be all that bad and just think of all the great exercise I would be getting!

Getting Old Sucks!

I've decided I need some new paint colors around here so I went to Menards and picked out a color for my computer room. I figured I'd start there because it doesn't have very much wall space.
DUH!!! What was I thinking? It has tons of cabinets and cabinets= taping!
So I spent the whole day yesterday taping and priming the computer room. My back aches, my neck is sore and I sure as HELL don't want to start on the top coat. Luckily I'm busy until Sunday so maybe my muscles will quiet down by then.

P.S. I also found out I don't see as well as I used to. I taped the ceilings but there were a couple spots I couldn't reach to tape. You can sure tell by the sloppy job I did eyeballing it! UGH!

Loving it!!

My girls bought me an Ipad2 for Mother's Day. I recieved it Monday and after much hassle, it's finally up and working! YAY! I was even able to get my e-mail on it all by myself!! I've added Words With Friends and Angry Birds so far and am loving being able to pick up my WWF people again!

Over It!

I haven't done any scrapping for a few years. Seems like after I spent a ton of money on a custom scrap room, the motivation to scrap dried up. However, I had a room with enough paper, tools, adhesives, embellishments and storage systems that rivaled most scrapbook stores. It made me feel guilty for not using it and I couldn't just toss thousands of dollars worth of perfectly good stuff.

Jane's daughter Megan e-mailed me recently and asked about storage systems. She is starting to get into card making. I urged her not to buy anything paper crafting related until she could come over here. Well, Saturday night was the night! She hauled so much stuff out of here that the back of her Mom's Navigator was full to the top :)

I spent yesterday morning cleaning out drawers and cupboards and still got 8 garbage bags full of stuff to throw out. Bet the garbage men were pleased when they stopped here this morning. But I have now got a clean and tidy craft room :)

YUCK!

Stella spent Wednesday night with Allison and Karter. Being the scavenger that she is, she must have found some of the foil wrapped candy the boys got from the egg hunt on Saturday because she woke me up in the middle of the night last night puking. This morning, I found she had puked big globs of foil in three different spots. When she was little and would puke, I'd rush her into my bathroom so it was easier to clean up. Evidently that lesson stuck because she puked (mostly) in the bathroom. Poor baby!

Mother's Day

I had a busy Mother's Day weekend with the boys. Allison had to work and Karter went paddlefishing so Grandma filled in. They can be monsters like all kids but they were pretty darned good this weekend :)

We had dinner at their house yesterday, I brought the main course, Ellen brought potatoes and a salad and Paul made dessert. They stopped and got my mother and brought her out as well.

Karter and the boys went out yesterday afternoon and got Allison and I each a bouquet of fresh flowers and my girls got me an I-Pad. How sweet and generous is that and how spoiled am I??

My Mom was thrilled with her Amazon gift cards. She uses them to buy books for her Kindle and she's a reading machine!

The Ultimate Two Year Old Compliment

Tom-Tom has always been a little hesitant about me when I come to visit. Breaks my heart but I try not to take it personally. It usually takes my whole visit before he's semi comfortable with me.
Luckily, this trip he warmed up much quicker. At one point a few days before I went home, he and I were sitting beside each other on the couch watching TV. He reached his pudgy little hand over and patted me on the belly and said, "Good boy, Grumma."
It sure made my day!