Today's THE day...

We're off to our walk-thru, then closing this morning, so keep us in your prayers please!

Hopefully this afternoon, I'll be shopping for my new appliances - yay! So this is your last chance to purchase stock in Home Depot before it really sees a BIG return - hehe!

Happy Closing on our House Day to you family and friends!

Check me out...

Most of you already know that I'm computer illiterate, well, well, well, turn up your speakers because I have music on my blog! I.KNOW.WOW! Jess will be so proud of me - we were "chatting" over at j4k about one of the girlie's blog that had music on it and I made the comment that my blog readers should just hum a little something while they read my blog because I'd never be able to figure out how to put music on my blog. So this is what I do with my time when it's dark and quiet in the apartment and have no access to my scrappy supplies, I get my computer geek on! (that and read poineer woman, if you have not read any of her stuff, go there right now! Are you back? Did you read some of her stuff? She hasn't been her usual hilarious blogger lately, so she's due some good stuff!)

When was the last time that you were up until 4am and it wasn't because you were caring for a sick child or scrappin your heart out? Until last night, it's probably been since way before Alex was born that I was up that late and it most likely was due to partyin WAY too much, thus sleepin it off the next day. So was I getting my groove on last night? NO. I was laughing and crying like a mad woman - I was reading PS, I Love You! I had started it a few nights ago, so I was about 1/4 of the way through it, but I just couldn't put it down, I finished it a little after 4am! It was SO good, I highly suggest it, BUT now I'm not sure that I want to see the movie, I'm afraid I'll be disappointed. Oh well, it was just a good book - I literally laughed out loud at parts (in the middle because in the last parts of the book, I sobbed - be warned, have kleenex!).

Speaking of reading, have you read anything good lately? I'm looking for a new book, so please let me know if you have something to recommend - thanks!

All righty then, I'm off to bed. Nightie-night!

What have I gotten myself into....

Holy buckets!! (as Jess would say!) I'm sitting here listening to the 10pm news and the 5-day forcast is NOT good - they said starting Wednesday, the highs are going to be in the single digits and the lows, they're in the negatives. GULP. What in the heck? Hot chocolate. Check. Apple cider. Check. Bailey's. Check. Rum. Check. Down comforterS. Check (yes, plural on that one, we need more lots of warm blankies!). Fresh pot of homemade loaded baked potato soup. Check. A good book. Check (PS I Love you, so I'd better check to make sure I have kleenex).


Yes, I'm a Southern girl through and through, I'm not cut out for this kind of weather, I'll just hibernate and come out when the snow melts - when do you think that might be? GULP. What have I gotten myself into?




One of Alex's favorite things about staying in the apartment is that there is an elevator and even though we're just on the first floor, we ride the elevator (it's kinda small so we take turns riding it with him). Here he is pushing the button:





Other thing that he likes is taking turns with Daddy hiding in the doorways along the hall to jump out and scare me:






So I am having definite papercrafting withdraws, I brought yarn and looms with me to work on while we're in temp housing, but it's just not cutting the mustard. I need to play with paper, adhesive, foam dots, ink, acrylic stamps, cropadials, ribbon, embellies - I MISS my stuff! On a good note though is that my craft room is going to be big and it's painted lilac (yes two rooms in this house are lilic and one is mine and the other is Haley's - we've finally been given the princess rooms that we deserve!) - how did that happen? My craft room is decorated in green and purple, so I'm just lovin the idea of having a total girlie craft space complete with lilac walls - yay! So I'll be patient because it will be so nice to have my craft room back and all neat, at least until I start a project!





Here's a little something that I finished up tonight:

These are for my sweet little neices, Lily and Maddy. They have new favorite colors, so they need new scarves to match their colors! Lily used to love purple, but now she loves pink and Maddy used to love yellow, but now she loves orange. I have a little of sherbert yarn left that I want to make a set for sweet baby Katy, but cannot find the contrasting yarn anymore, it was from Hobby Lobby and they discontinued it. Darn it, looks like I might have to go to JoAnn's tomorrow to look for something for her. I've been avoiding JoAnn's, especially since it's a JoAnn's Etc. (I've never been in one, but heard it RoCkS) because I have no crafting self-control, but to make something for sweet baby Katy, I'll suck it up and go shopping at JoAnn's - hehe!




Hope your Monday starts of bright and sunny!