Daily Life

Hi…

April 29, 2009 By kelly 2 Comments

Yikes! It’s been way too long since I updated my blog. I didn’t mean to let time get away from me, but somehow it did. I did so well updating daily over Lent, but since Easter has passed I have missed several days. I need to get back into the good swing of posting more regularly. I’ll do my best. 🙂
I’m still floating on a cloud from our trip to Nashville last week. I just can’t say how much it meant to me that Mickey planned that all as a huge surprise for me. He worked it all out just perfectly and we had a wonderful WONDERFUL time!! On Saturday we got up and went over to meet up with my mom and the girls and that was fun too. The girls had a blast with Nana, of course. We spent all of Saturday in TN and then came home on Sunday. It was a beautiful weekend all around.
This week we’ve been reconnecting to the “real” world. It was hard to come back to reality after such a great travel weekend, but at least reality is a nice place to be too. (wink)
The girls are both in their last weeks of school which is REALLY hard to believe. Macey has 17 more school days left in her Kindergarten year. How crazy is that?! Mariana has 8 school days of preschool left counting today. That just boggles the mind too. I have heard it said that when kids are growing up the days can be long, but the years are short. I wholeheartedly agree!! I can’t believe how quickly it all goes and I just want to savor every moment that we possibly can in these amazing years.
I have a couple of book reviews that I need to post, so hopefully I can get to those later today. I ordered several books lately, so it’s nice to have a stack of them to work through when I have chances.
The weather has been just SOOO gorgeous here lately. Finally we are having nice warm spring days. Love temps in the 80s, they are my favorite kind of days.
Guess I should go so that I can get Mickey, Mariana and me ready for today. (Macey’s already at school)

Have a beautiful day,
Kelly

This week is shaping up to be a busy one for me. Every day there is at least one “thing to do” on my Google Calendar. Good thing the calendar will send text messages to my cell to keep me on top of things. 😉 Most of this week’s activities are going to be fun, especially Macey’s class field trip to the children’s museum on Thursday, but some are just necessities like check-ups at the ENT for Mariana. Still, with something to get out of the house to do every day, we’ll have a hopping week.

Now that Lent is over, I am back on Facebook. It was actually kind of nice to give it up. Don’t get me wrong, I missed the interactions there, but it was a good Lenten sacrifice because it really freed up time for me. I have discovered that a lot has changed on there in time time I was away, but I’m adapting well so far.

Speaking of Lent, I hope everyone had a beautiful Easter. Ours was great! We went to our church’s contemporary service (which is normal for us) and the message was just incredible. We had a very low-key afternoon at home which was also nice. We pondered going to the zoo for awhile in the afternoon, but opted to stay home and relax which was a great decision.

I got my hair cut and colored today. I just love my hair stylist, Jenna! She is so sweet and does a great job with my hair. In addition to “doing hair”, she is also director of children’s ministry at a church in a nearby town, so we always have a lot to talk about on that note too.

The weather here has been nuts lately. This morning we had a good bit of rain with crazy wind. Lots of limbs and debris around our neighborhood. From what we have seen, nothing bad happed, so that’s good. The power went out at our church, so Mickey couldn’t work today and the kids all had to be picked up from preschool early. Crazy crazy!

Guess I should wrap this up and figure out supper. It’s getting close to that time.

Have a great evening, all…

Blessings,
Kelly

Snow…

April 7, 2009 By kelly Leave a Comment

We have had snow flurries off/on all morning. At times the flurries have been pretty significant. Nothing is sticking, of course, so there is no accumulation, but it still baffles the mind of this Southern girl to see snow in April. Brrrr.

Here is a screen shot from The Weather Channel:

snow_april_09

In true crazy Georgia weather fashion, spring is due to make a comeback tomorrow with temps in the 60s. Go figure. 😉 Here is our forecast screen shot:

f_cast Like I said – CRAZY. Gotta love it!

Accomplished.

April 6, 2009 By kelly 2 Comments

I have gotten a good bit done today. Now, granted, the entire house is not clean, but I still managed to get a lot done. For instance, I cleaned some of our downstairs carpet today. I did the half-bath, hallway and family room. Only the study and dining room didn’t get a carpet cleaning today. Not bad. I tried again to get the ceiling dust out of the kitchen and made more headway there. Got the dining room straightened up pretty well. Kept the kids fed and mostly happy too. Went to the grocery store and the bank branch inside the store. Even made dinner. Not bad at all. 😉

Tomorrow is going to need to be upstairs cleaning day. AND laundry day. Laundry never ever ends around here, that’s for sure. I’m also going to need to pack for the time we’ll be away in South GA. Also need to find time to get a haircut for Mariana. Whew! Another busy day ahead, it seems.

I’m also ready for warmer weather. It’s supposed to get down to freezing here tonight. Seriously. And our high tomorrow is supposed to top out at like 40. With wind. Brrrrrrr!

Hope all is well all over today,
Kelly

Winding Down…

April 5, 2009 By kelly 5 Comments

We are winding down here after a busy weekend.
Yesterday, of course, was a “honey do” day with Mickey and me working on home improvement projects.
Mickey worked SO hard in our kitchen getting the popcorn ceiling down and then having to sand and scrap the texture that was left. That was the dustiest job I have ever seen. Seriously. I cleaned up last night and there is still dust today. But, at least the hardest part is done. We hope. ;)The ceiling still needs to be repainted, but that little project can wait for now. We may have to re-sand part of the ceiling and we are just not ready to tackle that again yet.
I worked in our half-bath downstairs yesterday. That bathroom had been just one of those rooms that I really didn’t like, but didn’t deal yet. The walls were this off-white/yellowish color and just look dingy to me. So, we did away with that. We repainted a nice chocolate brown on the walls and even on the ceiling. The trim is all white. The vanity has double doors in the front and I painted the inside panel of each door brown and left the rest white. We took down the huge wall-mounted mirror over the vanity as well as the outdated light fixture and towel ring. We replaced all of the older fixtures with brushed nickle fixtures and they look SOOO good with the chocolate colored paint. Yay! I forgot to take “before” photos, but I’ll try to remember to take “afters” once we finish up the little details like touching up the paint in places it’s needed.
The girls spend the day with Papa & MiMi (my dad and step-mom) at their house yesterday and had a ball. They have talked and talked about it since they got home.
Today hasn’t been all that busy, but it was busy enough.
I knocked out a Wal-Mart run with Mariana’s help. Mickey worked on mowing the lawn and Macey was here with him. Those were our biggest home accomplishments today. And, that’s enough.
Wait. I did try to remove some paint that I splattered on the carpet. So far most of it isn’t coming out, but I’m making progress. Does anyone know how to get latex paint (dried) out of carpet? Ideally, I’d just say let’s ripe out the carpet and put down new flooring, but…well, not right now. LOL!!
It was a gorgeous weekend here, weather-wise. That is changing rapidly though. It’s been rainy all around us today, but we have missed most of the rain in our direct area. However, the temps are taking a nosedive. We were in the 70s yesterday and today, but tomorrow the high is supposed to be 40-ish. And, it’s supposed to be windy. Brrr. Come back, Spring!
Well, it’s almost time to put the girlies to bed. Mickey and I are going to just chill out and watch a movie tonight. I recorded Baby Mama on our DVR, so we are going to watch that since there is no Amazing Race tonight.

Hope everyone has had a great weekend,
Kelly