Random updates

Not so much an update...but a funny thing happened the other day...the first one of my kids to do this...I was sitting in the kitchen and Si was on the john. He yelled to me that he was done (he can go #1 by himself but needs help with the follow up on #2). I said "okay be right there!"
Apparently I didn't get "right there" quite fast enough because the next thing I hear is a big THUD and him with a scream and crying. I run in and find him headfirst off the toilet and on the floor and (sorry) butt up in the air. No idea which thought came first - "grab him!" or "grab the camera!" The motherly instinct kicked in and hygiene came first...so I got him back on the pot...poor kid. He got right back on the horse though with no issues so apparently he's not scarred for life.

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2nd update - you saw a few weeks back at tool club time that Justin had started working on our new garden area. He took advantage of the decently nice weather yesterday and here is the result!

We've got a garden area that we can keep the rabbits out of (but probably not the kids). We are going to plant tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes (so we can make our radish butter :) snap peas, possibly sweet corn, the kids want more sunflowers, peppers (all the fixings for good salsa!).

Have I mentioned that I love my handy-manny-man?!

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Another update (#3) I said that I'd share...Indian Lake...the girls (me, Beth, Jen, Jodi, Jill, Becky, Brenda and Heather - recipe for trouble?) all went for a girls' get-a-way recently - Thanks to Jill and her family's willingness to let us trash the place! It was a fantastic weekend. We had a great time, the weather was perfect. Some of us sat by the lake and built a bonfire. It was divine.

While the masking tape served us well that evening, I'm on the lookout for a great set of wine charms as a thank you gift! :-)


More updates to come....

Looove my handyman

Last weekend we cleaned and cleaned and cleaned in our Master bedroom. It was a room that had just been ignored for too long - lots of clutter, clothes, junk. Not a room that I really wanted to be in unless it was dark and I was asleep.

One item in there was this white....thing...it had come with a tea candle infuser and oils, which is now used elsewhere in the room. I really liked this holder though, so Justin and I came up with the idea to make it into a jewelry box of sorts (I didn't have anyplace to hang my necklaces). I bought some eye hooks and he drilled them and and now I have a cute little place to put my necklaces and bracelets on my newly cleaned off dresser top!



The 2nd handy thing my lovely handyman (lovely and handyman don't quite go together...how about "hunky"?) did was put an organizer over the toilet. Much needed because Justin was really sick of looking at my "feminine products" scattered about and now they won't get barfed on again if Ella doesn't quite make the toilet. The little wood/silver thing on the left is the infuser that came out of the white jewelry box.

I'm excited to move on to another room of the house now...
like our front room. It needs a LOT of work!

Such a Handy Man!

When I got the new desk, I started looking for a new filing cabinet or storage piece of some sort for the front room. I found this online at an unfinished wood place. I thought it was nice and Justin could stain it to match the desk. Well, it came in 1000 pieces that had to be glued and screwed together so he spent all day Saturday doing that. But only after he made some modifications to it as well. Here is what the piece looks like now - after it's been Pimp My Cart -ified



It is a dark, dark brown like the desk AND notice that he squared out all the door handles and cut groves in each door to match the desk - he's either a FREAK or pretty good at this kind of stuff :) Either way, I love it!!