October 20, 2008

• Good Monday Morning to You!

  Not only did I sleep like a log yesterday afternoon for several hours, I slept the same way last night.  VERY hard to get up this morning!  I feel like a hibernating bear!

  I think I’m acting like a bear, too!  The idea has gone through my head that lots of
  toys need to be thrown away.  There is such a mess in the girls’ rooms,
  again.  No one can find anything to play with and I frequently hear the whine,
  “I don’t have anything to dooooo.”  Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!  The current popular toy is their Leapsters; doll strollers, which haul
  anything from dolls, to animals, to random toys; and Rissy’s tape
  recorder so they can sing songs.  Maybe I should put stuff in the
  garage again and start rotating their toys.  We have a battle every
  night, and again mid-day, with cleaning up rooms.  Less stuff means less mess. 
  Or, at least, that’s what it’s supposed to mean!  Before church, yesterday, Luci couldn’t find her slip and was in hysterics.  I found it in a box of wooden blocks – still on its hanger!  I wonder why no one thought to look inside the blocks box for a slip???!!! LOL
  
  I was barely awake when the painter, Don, arrived today.  He had just a bit more to touch up and now we won’t see him any more.  He’s become like a family member over the past few weeks and, actually, he’s been here more often than Jesse!!!  He had to touch up the kitchen cabinets and hang a few doors.  But, even though it’s wet, here’s the last of his work.

  Beautiful, smooth, clean white cabinets and drawers.
  
  I love them!

  And slightly wet, but clean, white drawers and cabinets – these look cream, but they aren’t.
  
  I’ve threatened the girls within an inch of their lives if they so much as “THINK” about closing a door or drawer!
  

  Speaking of “thinking” . . . I need to think about
  something to fix for dinner, tonight.  We ate leftovers for dinner last night.  After church we had
  beer battered fried fish, waffle fries, and canned peas for our lunch. 
  It was just “okay” and not great.  Don’t think I’ll serve that again. 
  My family is learning to love leftover nights and Sunday seems like a great day
  for that.  Less work for me.
  

  As far as work, this is my next project.  The guest room.  It is also a newly painted surface and very bland.
  
  It’s kind of like a blank canvas, right now.  I haven’t a clue as to what to put on the walls.  Something neutral, I guess.  Most likely we’ll have girls, but there might be that occasional little boy brother thrown in there.  I don’t want him living in a room filled with girl-things!  I’ve also been looking at bed cover sets that weren’t so girlish and I’m thinking a solid green or blue might be best for a boy. 

  AND, I have to decide on the window treatment.
  
  Pretty barren looking, isn’t it?

  I’ll need to go through the cupboards and shelves in there to make room for the new children’s things.  That way they can express themselves with “whatevers”!  I think it’s the cream color I chose that makes it look so barren.  It’s screaming for some personality!
  

  Speaking of personality . . . here’s my bar.  Another neat, tidy day on the bar!  Full of empty hangers.
  

  The hangers are what used to hold these.
  
  Most of the spring/summer clothes from the girls’ closets.  I’m contemplating going through the closets one more time and pulling many short sleeved t-shirts.  Surely, if they have a few short sleeve t-shirts, that will be plenty to wear between now and the permanent cool weather.  We keep our house pretty cool in winter, so, long sleeve t-shirts are necessary.

  We are supposed to have a cold blast of weather by Wednesday and not be
  back to the upper 60′s until the next weekend.  Thus, the reason for
  the push to trade out clothes and get my mind back to thinking about
  casseroles and things that we haven’t had over the hot summer.  I’m also going to start folding their t-shirts and putting them in their dresser drawers instead of hanging in the closet.  Right now, everything is in an upheaval with not much in their drawers or their closets.
  

  My poor little girls have nothing to wear but their smiles!
  
  Rissy

  
  Luci

  
  I have a lovely new electric blanket for the girls’ king size bed and
  an old twin one to put back on my side of our king bed.  At least my cord
  is already run down the center of our bed and I only have to plug in
  mine.  I’m afraid Jesse will have to help me with the one on the girls’ king
  size mattress.  Besides it being awkward, their mattress weighs 2 tons!  It’s something like 22″ thick and requires high dollar sheets.  That’s the one we bought for us and hated because you sink down about 4″ when you get in bed.  There is a hump in the middle where we never slept. 

  I guess that’s all the pictures and story for today.
  

  Chirper knows when the camera is out, I’ll soon be heading to the computer.  So, here he is . . . waiting for me!
  

  Today I am teaching school (the hard stuff – math, language arts, etc.) a little later than usual.  Since Don was here, I didn’t get around soon enough to get things together.  We’ll have to do school after lunch.  THEN, I *must” fold the summer clothes and put them up in the attic.  Then . . . the attic’s warm clothes need to come down and be washed.  I’ve already done 3 loads of laundry this morning.  I have no idea what I will find up there.  I hope there will be enough to keep my girls warm!  I know I have bigger, new bathrobes up there.  Not *new* but *used* and new to them.

  So . . . why am I sitting here at the computer?

  Better go!  Bye!

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