April 7, 2010

• I have some pictures today of the girls, when JanaLyn came over for Annamarie's birthday.

  It's been almost a whole week since I last wrote.  That almost NEVER happens!  I talk too much!  LOL!!!

                          

  I haven't been disconnected from the computer, either.  When the painter moved out my desk, he plugged everything back in, when he was finished painting the wall behind the desk.  Then, unplugged it again when he added another coat of paint.

  So, I can't use the painter as an excuse!

  I have been keeping busy with many, many chores around here.  Rissy even commented, "I guess this is what they call spring cleaning!?!"  I guess it is.

                          

  The carpet beneath the china cabinet was so filthy!  We haven't vacuumed under there since we moved here five + years ago!  In fact, it's contents have never been emptied out, since November 2005.  The wood's been polished, the glass doors and shelves were polished, and the mirrored back was polished  (even the cobwebs under the base was dusted).  It probably hasn't been this clean since we bought it, eons ago!

  I took the time to rearrange the upper shelves, the ones you can see.  My china dishes are now stacked on the bottom of the shelving behind the glass doors - easy to get to for Sunday dinners.  I have all of my decorative bone china cups and saucers cleaned and ready to use.  I just have to open the glass door in the morning and choose which pretty cup I want to use that day. 

          

  I also took all of the stuff that was in the marble chest (the cabinet with the glass walls and doors that Annamarie broke) and I've temporarily stored those items in the bottom of the china cabinet, until the glass can be replaced in the marble chest.  The china cabinet job took two days because I washed and polished everything.  I still have to polish the few sterling silver pieces that were in the cabinet.  They are incredibly dark with tarnish..

  When the painter moved the desk and file cabinets, we found the carpet was filthy.  We can take the vacuum's hose and get behind the desk, because we (well, not "we" technically, more like one of the girls!!!) can crawl under the desk.  But behind the file cabinets it looks like dryer lint has accumulated!  Yuck!

             

  He moved my formal sofa and my grandmother's desk and it was pretty dusty, but not like the china cabinet carpet! 

  I'm sure our bedroom will be the same, when he gets to that.  We haven't moved furniture in the 5+ years we've been here.  We have a large bedroom, but large furniture, too.  There isn't any place to move it to clean.  So we haven't cleaned the nooks and crannies.

   

  I continue sorting the winter clothes (folding them and putting them in storage bins) and finding clothes from the spring/summer plastic bins that fit the girls this year.  Jesse's sister, JoAnn, sent the girls two large boxes of clothes and porcelain dolls.  Annamarie received two snow globes.  JoAnn remembered that Annamarie wanted some because Rissy collects them, so she gave her two.  Annamarie was thrilled.  I'm thrilled to have the box out of our bedroom!!!

  That's the next place I need to work because the painter will start there, probably next week.

  I have a few letters I want to write and there are still quite a few medical phone calls that need to be made.  I'm culling some of my books and giving those away.  AND, there is the every day teaching, cooking, bathing . . .

                   

  My list seems endless!

  My GI test came back "fairly normal" and the doctor wants me to schedule another test that is very uncomfortable.  A small tube goes up your nose and down to your stomach.  They don't put you out for the test, because you have to "participate" during the test.  I think he said they ask you to breath in, breath out, swallow, etc.  The only consolation I have is that a nurse told me the tubing was VERY small.

  Moving on to ANOTHER subject . . . (!!!)

  I made a new cake on Friday.  Apple and Pineapple Dump Cake.  REALLY good.

         

  Then, I made a layer cake on Monday that calls for mashed fresh strawberries.  We have one day left and we'll polish that one off!  It turned out pretty, and it tasted really good with the real strawberries, rather than the fake strawberry flavoring.

  Let's see . . .

  That may be all of the news.

  That's what has been happening for this past week.  I'll be glad when traditional school is finished.  I'm not telling the girls, but I have spring fever as bad as they do regarding school work!!!

  Be Blessed  ~

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