Long time no post

Time to start posting again. Rather than trying to catch everyone up on what's been happening, I figured I would just jump in with the present:

Friday:

Friday... trying to remember what I did on Friday. Oh yeah! Gary and I fixed the oven all by ourselves!!! An error code showed and it was beeping. I googled the error code and found out what the problem was, the thermostat sensor. Gary checked the OHMS reading and, yup, sure enough it was dead. He called around, found someone who carried the part and we fixed it.

In order to fix it, we had to pull the oven out. We have been living here for 6.5 years and I have never pulled the oven out. I still have memories of the movers worrying about if it would fit, so I didn't want to mess with it. Turns out, its easy to get in and out, if you slide it. Needless to say, it was quite a mess under there so I took the opportunity and cleaned the floor, the sides of the cabinets and the sides of the stove.

The kids and I made some window clingers (those are great) and played some XBox. I also cleaned the toy room to prepare for Saturdays renovations.

Friday afternoon, since Gary took the day off, I headed to Curves for my first visit. It was great. I can't get over how "normal" all the women there were. I'm looking forward to going back.

Friday night, Cara and I went to the funeral home. My friend's father passed away, so Cara made her a card from our playgroup and we brought it by. This was my first time in a funeral home since my mother passed away. It was really, really hard. My eyes are filling just thinking of it. Lise's mother must think I'm insane or something Thank heavens Cara was with me, cause that kind of forced me to hold it in. Then I talked Cara into letting me come to the mall with her I saw the cutest hoodie at Garage and its only $25 so I'm strongly thinking of buying it.

Saturday:

Saturday started at 4:30am with Darrelyn waking up with a fever. Since she wasn't feeling well on Friday night, she was already sleeping with me. I gave her some Tylenol and hoped she would go back to sleep. No such luck. She moaned for the first half hour until the Tylenol started working and then she decided it was a good time to talk... endlessly I think I did get about 45 minutes of sleep before I had to get up. In the morning, I went to a parenting class on "Raising your spirited child". Turns out I have two "spirited" children. One is an introvert and one is an extrovert. Fun, fun, fun. At least I am learning that I'm not alone and getting great tips from the other moms and the coordinators of the course. Then I picked up milk, did recycling and headed home to a house full of people. Linda, Rusty and the children were there. Gary was upstairs watching the children while Linda and Rusty put up the ceiling in the former playroom now family room. They had just finished lunch and all the mess was still there, so I got to work cleaning the kitchen. Once the kitchen was cleaned, I started making preparations for supper and played with the children.

Sunday:

What a busy day today! I woke up, made coffee and immediately went to work downstairs. First thing was to clean the floors. Then I started moving items out of the "back room" I found a place for almost everything, which I am quite proud of

Then I started putting the toys in the "back room", now officially known as the toy room. Wow, was it ever hard to fit everything in! We ended up moving all the books to Darrelyn's room and the toy chest with all the stuffed toys to Breanna's room. Darrelyn was quite worried there wouldn't be enough room for her to ride her bike in the basement

Then, after we hung the blinds in the family room, we started clearning off our computer desks to move downstairs. I couldn't get over how much stuff Gary had in and around his! Lets just say he now has a buffet table beside his desk to hold all his "stuff". I evened it out though by putting up my own buffet table for scrapbooking

After the desks were cleaned off, I made supper while Gary unhooked everything. After supper, we carried the desks downstairs. That was not fun! I left Gary to hook everything up while I tackled the living room.

You would not believe the amount of dust that can build up behind computer desks!!! I think it was a whole community of dust bunnies.

At about 7:30 I finished the living room, put the girls to bed and watched Grey's Anatomy. I will wait to tackle the rest of the house tomorrow.

I'm thinking I need a glass of wine!

If you made it this far, boy do you have alot of time on your hands... wanna come over