Movie: P.S. I Love You
http://psiloveyoumovie.warnerbros.com/
A movie that will make you happy and sad all at the same time.
CookBooks:
Lots of good information and pictures. I just got this one so I haven't tried many of the recipes yet.
Easy, yummy recipes!
CD: Sugarland -Love on the Inside
Andy surprised me with this cd recently. This cd makes long car rides much more enjoyable and I love the bonus live tracks. I did not want to skip any of the songs the first time through it! Now I have favorites that I skip around to listen to.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
I am sitting on my fabulous couch enjoying my last few days before rejoining the working world. It is funny to me that before the days at home went by so slowly with me counting the hours until Andy would be home from work and now they go by so fast as I look around at all of the things that I want to get accomplished between now and then.
I will be working as a social worker at a kidney center with dialysis patients. I am excited and nervous about the new job because it is completely different than what I have been doing in the past. I have a lot of different feelings because I felt like child welfare was my calling and now I will not be involved in child welfare at all unless I am able to do some volunteer work which is my hope, but I also want to get started on LCSW supervision so I do not know how much time I will have. Although I feel on the one hand like I have abandoned my calling on the other hand I have a sense of relief, because I will not have to make such huge decision as what adoptive family should a child be paced with or does this child need to be removed or are they safe at home. As a case-manager I was constantly having to question whether or not I could trust people. I will definitely miss just hanging out with all my kids. We will see how it goes at CKC once I get started. I have to believe that was the right choice because of the way everything fell into place.
I went to my parent's house for a few days last week to visit with my great aunt from PA. It was nice to spend time with my family other than what is normally a very quick weekend visit. My aunt makes fabulous homemade bread and cinnamon rolls, which was an added bonus. As I result of the trip I now have more boxes to unpack and figure out where to put remnants of my childhood and teenage years. I don't have as much as I was hoping to bring though because my mom is somewhat reluctant to let me take things as she is concerned that I will throw every thing away. As I look over things it makes me think about parts of me I am glad that I outgrew and other parts of me that I want to work on bringing back. I guess I just want to keep striving to become the person I was put here to be and not grow complacent and lazy.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Home Depot put paint on sale over Labor Day (actually a stupid rebate thing) and we bought in. Jess had been looking at paint chips for a while and picked out Liberty for the dinning room, Colorado Springs for the master bedroom and Tate Olive for the main guest bedroom.
Just remember-- you can't spell paint without pain!
Dinning Room Before
Dinning room after
Guest before (after putty and sanding)
Guest after ... or during
Master before
Master After
No painting project has ever been perfect. Here are a few goof ups, including Jess's footprint,
Toe vs. Hammer and the Tennessee Blue-tail dog. The pictures pretty much explain themselves.
Our dads helped us with a few projects right off the bat at the house. I built this door so the crawl space wouldn't turn into a dog house. My dad hung it. The fact that any door ever closes is a miracle to me.
The fathers also wired and mounted motion-sensing lights for us.
Though the house has plenty of space we decided to put some shelving up in the top of Jess's closet. We went to the world's longest yard sale and bought some white wire shelving for 50 cents.
Then we got the anchors and hardware an
d put it u
p.
We were given this bedroom furniture by my parents. It's been around a while (I believe it has marks on it from mine and Adam's baby bottles). We decided that instead of buying new furniture we would paint it and get new hardware. We were happy with the way it turned out.
Before
During
After
The only problem is that our nightstand now smiles at us.
Wrigley and O'malley love chasing squirrels and digging.
The dogs treed a possum. Or fenced him. Whatever.
Wrigley brought this nasty thing inside and tried to eat it. I saw one outside and thought it was a humming bird. It's much bigger than my thumb. Can anyone identify it? Should I be worried about them flying off with Jess?
The house has a detached garage and out building. It is a one car garage on asphalt and two other decently sized rooms attached on wood. Plenty of room for extra stuff. Especially extra stuff with blades and power cords attached. These photos are proof that at least one time all of the tools were in the right place.
(Dad if any of the tools look familiar it is purely by coincidence).
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