It's gonna snow....

Big honkin flakes too, they said it'll be a storm that we have to dig out of...yikes.

Well, I sucked what little life was left in the camera battery out to take a few pics of the house...

Here's the kitchen with my new frig:

Kitchen with new stove:

My new faucet, isn't she lovely?!:

Here's the living room (please ignore half naked child, he thinks we live in a nudest colony and luckily I've talked him into being half dressed since we're in MN - yea, our mail lady in OK has seen Alex in the buff more than once!):

Here's Alex's bedroom:

The playroom:

Sorry for the crick you'll have to get in your neck to see this one, I flipped it on the camera, but it didn't stay, obviously! This is Alex's bathroom:

And just because I know (crossing my fingers) you'll still love me after seeing the distaster that is my craft room, I just had to share. I get so overwhelmed that I don't know where to start, so I go do a load of laundry, BUT I'm really wanting to work on it this weekend so I can scrap next week while Alex is in school!

Do you still want to be my friend? I promise, I don't have a craft problem, lots of the boxes are holiday decorations/all office related things/and wrapping paper/recycled gift bags, etc. that WILL find a home NOT in my room!

I spoke with Alex's teacher yesterday, she's such a sweetheart! She wanted to let me know that the lady from bussing was going to call and she did...the bus will come at 8:30 to pick him up and drop him off at 1:30! I have 5 hours to myself, whew, see why I have to get my craft room done? That time will be like gold, but on the down side, I am SO nervous about him going to school on the bus. I have always taken him, handed him to his teacher and known that he was safely in the school and the only two times he rode the bus to school it was with the two sweetest, grandmotherly bus ladies God has put on this earth, these ladies cried on his last day and gave both of us so many hugs - I felt perfectly safe giving my baby to them, I knew he'd be safe with them. Whew, but to put him on the bus with a stranger...I might be driving behind the bus (is that too freaky?). I think I'll call my sis and ask her about Logan's first time taking the bus to school. I'm about to have a panic attack just writing about it, I'm gonna be a wreck Monday morning and Andy won't be here! He would definitely follow that bus to school!! But he'll be in WVA at a meeting, so if you hear on the news about some physcho lady in a white Maxima who got arrested for stalking a school bus in MN, please send bail money!

Okay, I'm off to try to conquer my craft room - have a great weekend!

School starts....

MONDAY!! We went for our classroom visit today and it was so wonderful - when we got to the room, Alex saw his locker with his name on it, took off his jacket and hung it in his locker! We got to see the teacher, her 3 assistants, Alex's 6 other classmates, the speech therapist and the occupational therapist. Talk about awesome student/teacher ratios!!

Met one of our neighbors today - a sweet lady braved the frigid temps to come over bearing a fresh banana bread and a container of Winter Spice coffee, just delightful! As luck would have it, she was in the door 2 seconds before the phone starting ringing and Alex started shouting for me from the basement - she just chuckled and said that she was happy to meet me, enjoy the bread & coffee and we'll visit & get to know each other in the summer! Haha, it's not just me that wants to hibernate!!

Speaking of hibernation and the weather, I thought I was just being a pansy, so I chatted with Wiemann and she perfectly described my feelings about the single digit temp and negative 20 wind-chill factors - it's NOT NORMAL! The wind is blowing harder than it ever did in Oklahoma (and that's saying a LOT!), but to boot, it's bone-chilling cold. Andy has gotten used to coming home from work to find Alex already in a blanket sleeper and me in some flannel pj's! But just in case he thought we had just stayed in our jammas all day, he just looks at the purchases piled up in the dining room to see that we indeed did leave the house, fully dressed!

Okay, I'm off to have another cup of coffee and maybe another slice of banana bread - yum! Nite;)

I love doin laundry...

I hope you weren't sippin your morning coffee/tea/diet Coke and spit it out when you read the heading of this post because you KNOW there's no way that I love to do laundry! Well dear friend, I am lovin laundry right now, next week I probably will loath it again, but for now, aaaahhhh, love it.

So, what's the secret? Live for a month and a half in an apartment with one of those little stacked washer/dryer deals that you can only fit three pairs of jeans (Alex's, not mine!) in and when you finally get your regular sized washer and brand new gas dryer, you'll be LOVIN laundry! My machine is so big, I feel like I could get in there and swim laps and the dryer, WOW, it's HUGE, I could fit Andy in there (now I'm spitting my coffee out at the thought of that!!).

Today Alex and I are going to visit his new classroom and meet the students. They are also supposed to be able to tell us when our IEP meeting will be and what his start day will be (crossing my fingers that's soon, with the weather turning frigid again, he needs to get out of this house and I'm sure he's ready for a break from mommy!).

Have a terrific Tuesday!

Good Monday morning...

So we're having a heat wave up here, it's going to rain and be 40, then tomorrow it's going to be 1, so fun that the rain will freeze into a sheet of ice - doesn't Mother Nature know that I have to be someplace tomorrow and I cannot drive on ice???

How was the roast? Well, next time I'll once again go back to my good ole crock pot - Andy was sweet about it, no "I told you so's", he just said that I might have gotten a bad roast - helllllllllo, it was Black Angus, isn't that supposed to be darn good? Maybe I just didn't cook it long enough, I don't know, but like Kristi said, too many steps, the crock is the way to go...lesson learned! (and I bet Pioneer Woman's beef is THE best, it is fresh right there from HOT Marlboro Man - whew, have you seen the pics of him in chaps?!)

Okay, I'm back - had to go splash cold water on my face...

How's the unpacking? Yesterday I put Alex's bedroom and bathroom together, cleaned an old stacking shelf to organize puzzles/games in the playroom, cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner, organized my kitchen drawers/cabinets (I had gotten to the point that I just threw stuff into drawers/cabinets to make the kitchen workable, slacker, I know), wrapped child up like a little eskimo to go outside to play, unwrapped said child, cleaned the kitchen floor and collapsed at 9! Yesterday Andy, set up a fish tank, set up his theater and cleaned a dryer vent for me. Priorities around here are slightly different, wouldn't you say? As we were sitting eating our chewy roast, I asked Alex if was excited about sleeping in his bed on his new flannel Transformer sheets - Andy said, "I didn't get to fix his bed yet" (it's an antique bed and a major piece came unglued and just needed to be reglued) and I smiled, took a sip of wine and victoriously said, "I fixed it, his room is completely set up except for his shelves that you need to hang" (now, I am capable of hanging those shelves, but all heck would break loose if I were to actually affix anything to walls - that's his job), I took another sip of wine, hiding my cheshire-cat grin behind my glass. It took me two minutes to glue that piece on and I didn't call spouse into the room so they could see my craftmanship and ask spouse, "Who's the damn man?". But hey, the only place that has pictures hung on walls in the basement theater - bitter am I? No, I'm just glad it's Monday...I'm sipping on my coffee chatting with you while the "damn man" is at work!

I'm really wanting to get to the playroom today, that's my goal to have it done today. Then next will be my craft room, BUT I really want to take "before" and "after" pics of it because you just would not believe how explosive it looks right now. So why not take the before pic and get on it? The camera batteries are dead (someone left the camera in the truck and the below freezing temps sucked the life out of both batteries) and we cannot locate the charger - I haven't seen it since Christmas in Tally, but Andy swears in a bag/basket that came from the apartment and I just haven't unpacked it. What to do?? Hmmm...I think I'll go to sony.com and get myself a new one. Bitter? No....just happy it's Monday!

Okay, the plumber should be here any minute and little man is asking for a popcicle for his mid-morning snack - have a great Monday, I am!

What's for dinner...

Beef, that's what! I'm fixin to fix this pot roast that's a recipe from Pioneer Woman (if you haven't read her blog, go there now, she's a hoot!), I'll let you know how it turns out. Andy is beside himself that I'm doing a roast without my crock-pot, but everytime I do one in there it's more stew-ish because there's too much liquid.

Speakin of hubby, he's outside right now on a ridiculously tall ladder cleaning out the dryer vent so that I can do laundry. Now you know that I detest doing laundry, but it's been a week and a half since I've done laundry and I only have one pair of winter undies left, so that means laundry needs to be done, now! (yes, I said winter undies because it's SO dadgum cold here that you have to forego the cute undies that you can wear year-round in the south because up here, you have to have full-coverage so you won't chap your cheeks, if you know what I mean).

Whew, that's way more than you needed to know about me, I just hope that my dad doesn't read my blog because he's the only male to my knowledge that's ever wandered over here. Sorry Daddy if you're still a loyal reader, I will refrain from talking about my under-mentionables from here on out!

Take care, I'm off to roastland!