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Friday, February 6, 2009

I love these pillows!

To spruce up Adalynn's room I found this super cute Amy Butler sewing pattern for Gum Drop Pillows. This is the smaller size, I think I may make a larger one to keep it company too. Adalynn already loves crawling, climbing, and rolling over it.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

2.4.09: Diary

7:38am Pitter-patter of little feet traveling into our room, resulting in the stretching and shaking of our dogs as they wake for the morn. Collective groans from the man laying next to me and I as we realize that our sleep is done for the night. (worse for trav a high-school buddy is visiting and they were up playing wii until 3:30)

8am Roll out of bed. Outdoor thermometer reads -5deg. Freeze my arse while letting out Kels. I'd be nice about it, but this is seriously arse-freezing weather.

8:30am Eat T's breakfast sandwhich with a cup of coffee. Mmmm....coffee. Thanks babes.

9:30am Nina from the Closet Factory makes her grand arrival. After reviewing her company and closet options with us, she reviews our sad closet and makes her recommendations. We opt to have them organize the back wall of the closet. It'll be fabulous, come Feb 18. Well, maybe 19, when it's over.

Mid-morning Adalynn naps while I puttered around the house. I Cleaned up my poor, neglected, forlorn plant from Mother's Day last year.

And released pent-up agression my mutilating our kitchen cupboards with a drill and screwdriver. Or maybe not, it didn't turn out too bad. (note the sparkling new cupboard knobs....there ya go.)

Afternoon Travis, Carl, Adalynn and I traveled to Grandville to enter an adventure that we won't soon forget. In true craigslist fashion, you never know what an ad will lead you to. This listing for white cupboards led us to a decent looking house. Inside hid addiction and neglect. Adalynn and I stayed in the truck. We did end up buying the cupboards, and they will be great in the 3rd stall until they are cleaned up.

Evening After a faux fire call Trav's off at class again so I took a minute to write this blog. I've been researching master's programs at Ferris and e-mailing parents back to initiate consulting with them on their children's Occupational Therapy needs. It seems that God's plans for these kiddos and their families maybe do include me, after all. Outdoor thermometer fluctuates between no reading and 3deg. So maybe, just maybe it's warming up. A little.

Thank you, Ryan, for the pity comment. I feel so lov-ed. Really. (just think, this summer and for your next 4 years i can torment you up-close and in person. i so can't wait.)

Monday, February 2, 2009

We're WiNNerS!!!

I feel lucky...I'm still fairly amazed by this recent blessing that has come our way. After all, we don't normally win on a random whim.

First though, viewers beware. The next few pictures is for bold eyes only. Seriously, it's not pretty. And you have to promise not to judge me. I know that this is baaaad, very baaaad. But, on the list of priorities, it's fallen short. After all, shut a door when people visit, and no one knows. Except me, and my consience. It tells me every day what a sin I am living in.

Seriously, I'm so embarrassed.

And let's just pretend that these 2 pictures aren't of the same area of the closet...and while we're at it let's pretend that we don't have a dresser hidden in the corner with my ratty t-shirts and underclothes hanging out, gasping for clean air. And that our unsuccessful storage I've forced under the hanging clothes is not lying in a haphazard fashion. Or that the large tupperware full of lost maternity clothes that have no place to hang, no home of their own, really does belong there and isn't in the walkway.

When we moved into our home I was proud of the large walk-in closet that we called our own. Now it's hardly a walk-in...more of a laundry room minus the washer and dryer. Oops.

We've slowly been working on closets, first Adalynn's (pictures to come later, it's not exactly done yet), and we've been thinking about ours. But really, with T's class and Wed night church and Mary Free Bed and Weekend Work Trips, and Fire and the BASEMENT, it's not been something we've been able to jump on.

But, this weekend we might've caught a break. While we were at the home show, placing our name in drawings here and there with very high hopes, we found one for a $250 gift cert for the Closet Factory. So I returned Nina's call, and she's going to travel out here (I wonder if she really know's how far it is?) on Wednesday and evaluate. (yikes, seriously, guess I've gotta clear a pathway now!)

I'm a little scared that our $250 gift certificate may not take us too far. Looking at the website, we're wondering if we can get a drawer for $250? Or maybe a shoe rack?