Sunday Funny

Sitting at the table, eating breakfast.

LMS looks out the window and says:

Look mom, critters! (Critters are squirrels) They're pushing each other!

I look over, and two squirrels are getting "frisky" on a tree right outside our dining room window.

Yes, kiddo, they're just playing around. (and we'll just leave it at that...)

Possibly one of the culprits. Hard to tell, though, since we have ten zillion squirrels in the oak and walnut trees all around our house. This little guy was happily munching on a walnut.

What I've been up to lately

We're all moved into our new house, the rental house is cleaned out, we have our deposit back, and I've pretty much decided where I want to put everything in our new house. Everything is unpacked and put away except for my fabric stash- now that I have space, I need to build a shelf unit to store it all so I can get it out of the bins and see what I actually have.

I've got LMS' room mostly finished. The walls in the house ended up being in worse condition than we thought, so every room will need to be painted sooner rather than later.

 Hideous builder's beige everywhere, nasty pastel fan, massive marks on the walls.

More builder's beige. Nice floors, though.

Close up of the wall- the kid in this room must have jumped on his bed a lot to make marks this dark and deep on the walls.

 First I painted the ceiling and the ceiling fan white. Then I painted the top half of the walls purple.

Then I put beadboard on the lower half of the walls. Then I repainted the top half of the walls lavender because the purple was too overwhelmingly dark and too violet. Then I added trim to the beadboard. Then I added some crown moulding to cover my inept paint job. Then I taped everything off (which I hadn't done before) and painted the crown moulding, beadboard, trim, and closets white.

 I love the lavender walls and the white woodwork! It was extra time and money to repaint, but I am much happier with the results, and it's not going to bug me everytime I go in there.

(because I'm OCD like that)

I still need to paint the bedroom door white- the builder's beige just looks so dirty next to the nice, crisp white of all the other woodwork. And I want to add some cute knobs to the closet doors- green, purple, lavender, something that will give a pop of color to the doors.

 Then I painted the closet green with leftover paint from when the previous owners painted the master bedroom and bath. Solid green in the bathroom, sponged green in the bedroom. Meh. I actually don't mind the green in the bathroom by itself, but it completely clashes with our towels and is a bit too vibrant for a bathroom. Because of the sponge treatment it's not as vibrant in the bedroom, but in LMS's words: "that's not my favorite". However, it's a nice pop of color in the closet and ties in nicely with the green and purple color scheme (same as in her last bedroom).

I still need to finish painting the ceiling fan and put it back together. I also need to find and put on new outlet covers for the outlets- something cuter than the cheap off-white plastic ones that were on them.  And I decided LMS's dresser would work better in our room, so I will build shelves for her clothes in her closet (it's a big closet for one little kid).

We've got most of her furniture moved in now, but I have to get her clothes organized still. Once I get that done, I'll post some more pics.

I love how her room is turning out! Just don't look too closely or you'll see all the mistakes I've made :)

Sunday Funny

LMS has been very good lately about making sure we have fresh flowers in the house. I thought it was because she appreciated pretty flowers.

The other night I found out the real reason she makes sure we keep buying flowers.

We put most of a can of Sierra Mist Natural in the vase with the flowers to prolong their life, but we each get a swallow too. Apparently she really looks forward to that sip of soda.

Even though it's got regular sugar instead of corn syrup, it's still a lot of refined sugar. We've managed to cut out most of the refined sugar in our diet, so the affect of even a few swallows is quite noticeable. She gets very cranky, though she denies it :)