Today is a “Play Date Day” in our house. Macey will be bringing two friends home from school with her this afternoon. Oh, she is SO excited! To tell the truth, I’m excited too. I’m excited for her because I know how much she’s looking forward to it. Sure, this means I have to really get on the ball and clean the house today, but there shouldn’t have to be an excuse for that anyway, right? This house ought to be pretty lively this afternoon with four little girls here. How exciting! 🙂
Kids
Ready for a beautiful day…
- Good morning from South Georgia!!
- We had supper with my brother Charlie and his family last night. That was so nice!! We haven’t gotten to see them much lately, so we were all glad to catch up. Jackson (nephew) is getting so big and is completely adorable! We’re excited to see the three cousins play together soon.
- The girls “rewarded” us by sleeping ’til almost 8 this morning. Ahhh! Of course, calling 8am “sleeping in” is a definite indicator that we’re parents of younger kids, right?!
- We’re hoping to get together with my friend Terri and her girls today. Our daughters are close in age and get along great. It’ll be so much fun to see them together. And, of course, it will be wonderful to spend time with Terri. Can’t wait!
- I also have to go to the eye doctor while I’m here. Lately I haven’t been able to wear my contacts because my eyes are so red and irritated. So, since I am on record at the eye doctor here, I’ll take this opportunity to go. Hope they have my RX for contacts in stock. I like my glasses alright, but I much prefer my contacts.
- We only brought one Boz dvd and Mariana has watched it twice already this morning. Well, she doesn’t just sit glued to it, but it’s on the tv. I’m about over it already. LOL!!
- Off to get ready for a great day!
Blessings,
Kelly
Winding Down…
- 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
Gotta Love Payless Shoes!
I had a 20% coupon for Payless ShoeSource, so I decided to use it today for the girls and me.
First, for the girls, I got each of them a pair of these DARLING shoes!
Those shoes are more vibrant and even cuter in person! Mariana has already taken off the sparkly tennis shoes she had on today in favor of wearing these cuties around the house. I may just have to talk myself (and Mickey – lol) into getting these in the next half size up because they go with SO many of the girls’ spring and summer outfits. Don’t want to chance them not fitting all summer. 😉
For me, I got three pair of adorable shoes. I am so excited to have some CUTE new shoes!
Mickey often jokes that all of my shoes look alike to him. Well, he cannot say that about these hot little numbers:
These are even cuter in person and are really lightweight too. I can’t wait to wear them. I think they are so fun and versatile. I don’t have anything even remotely like them in my closet and I am eager to put them to lots of good wearing!
Now, admittedly, these are pretty standard for me as shoes go. Black and versatile. But, SOOOOO cute too!
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Love all my new shoes and the ones for the girls. I am so excited about SPRING and getting back into sandals and slides again. Gotta love Payless and new shoes!
Happy Thursday!
Happy Thursday!
- Macey’s class gets to participate in a Sock Hop today at PE. The school collected  donations  recently for a local food bank and so much food was collected that the students are getting rewarded with a sock hop. Sounds like a fun day in PE to me. 🙂 Macey wanted to wear her poodle skirt, but it’s too small for her now. So, she’s in button-up white shirt, rolled up jeans and white socks. Her hair is in a ponytail with a pink “scarf” hanging down. Entirely too cute for words!
- Can I just say that it is SOOOOOOOOO nice to have our hot water back. Oh my word. It’s incredible! We take it for granted every day and it is fantastic to have that luxury back again. We had a little scare last night because when we got home from church supper, the pilot light was out again. Ack!! We called the plumbing company and the dispatcher tried to find someone to come right out, but no one was available. So, we set up a service call for first thing this morning. Well, Mickey went down to try to relight the pilot himself and it worked. It’s still working. YAY!!! Hopefully that little outage last night was a fluke.
- We are supposed to get the results back from our ceiling lab work today. PLEASE pray with us that there is no asbestos. This house was built in the mid-80s, so there is a slight likelihood that asbestos could be present, but we hope and pray that it’s NOT!!
- The girls have portrait appointments first thing Monday morning. I am SOOOO excited about this! Now I have to decide what they are going to wear. Decisions, decisions!
- We are supposed to get rain again today. This is the most rainy spring that I can recall in quite awhile. Not complaining, of course. Everything is SO green. Water levels up are up too. I just hope that this doesn’t trigger irresponsibility in people for them to waste water just because. I mean, honestly, lawns do not NEED irrigation when it rains four out of seven days in a week when the weather is mild. Â We’ve been under drought conditions here for SO long that it’s nice to have a reprieve.
- I should get going. Mariana is ready to change clothes for the first time today. It won’t be the last, I’m sure.
- Please continue to pray for sweet Stellan and his precious family!