Redemption?

I've been scrapping the last couple of days. Rearranging my office has given me a bit of inspiration. I finished this layout of my DH and thought I'd share.

Maybe I feel bad for my rantings the other day. I'm not saying I was wrong to feel the way I felt, but maybe I shouldn't have blogged about it. I love my husband and he takes great care of his family. He may not be the richest, the strongest or the most handsome man in the world, but he's perfect to me.

Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend. Remember those who have served and continue to serve.

Looks like a lawn sale

I have to be honest, my weekend completely sucked! My girls were with their father (he's finally back from Louisiana after over four months, and they missed him terribly), so I was home with my husband and my youngest. I had plans to do some planting in the flower garden - good thing I didn't because we actually had a frost a couple of nights ago - and catch a movie. Neither happened. Instead I had to deal with a delusional husband. Let me tell you, if we weren't married and I wasn't a sane woman, I think I would have knocked him out and tied him to a tree somewhere deep in the woods for mother nature to take care of. I can not even begin to fathom where he's going to go next in his warped mind. Don't get me wrong, I love the man to bits, but I sometimes do not like him at all. I know you can relate.

Anywho, I spent a good deal of time cleaning and rearranging furniture. Yup, that's what this gal does when she's either stressed or upset. I was both. I did the girls room, the living room and my office (for the second time in less than a month)! I have a pile of junk - or another's treasure - for a nice huge lawn sale. Maybe I'll make enough for a vacation somewhere far far away.

Happy Friday!

I finally got enough of a mojo momentum going to finish a project. It's a birthday gift for my cousin. A couple of pictures of her granddaughter (back-to-back) to hang from the rear view mirror of her car. A little something to remind her of Miss Lydia whenever they're apart.


front side

reverse side

TGIF!! I have to tell you that this week crawled by. I was extremely busy with Girl Scouts and the usual daily things, but I didn't think that Friday would ever get here. Now that it is, no more housework or laundry...my rules! Weekends are for fun. I'm thinking I'll get some flowers planted along my fence and maybe catch a movie. Have a great weekend!!!

A Hard Lesson Learned

Everything was spiraling out of control...out of MY control anyway. I know it's been said a hundred thousand times before, but there are never enough hours in a day to complete all that NEEDS to get done. We won't even discuss the WANTS. The shitty part of it all is the things that I enjoy get put on the back burner...a sacrifice I willingly make because we're talking about my family, but I don't necessarily have to like it all the time.

My blog has gone neglected, my scrapping supplies have gathered dust and my laundry pile is so huge that I might have to file a flight plan just to get to the top of it. I love the first two and they tend to go by the wayside whenever life overwhelms. The third - laundry - I absolutely HATE doing, so it's always last on my list anyway. My children have to complain about not having underwear before I trudge down those steps to the "bitches" in the basement. A term of *ahem* endearment for my washer and dryer. They're beeping reminders force a personality change in a normally sane and delightful person. I hate them so!!

You say "out of control"? Well, let's see, my youngest was hospitalized with pneumonia for a week, I was then the lucky winner to host the pneumonia virus for over a week, my oldest turned nine in there somewhere and so a party had to be planned and executed, my middle daughter fell off her bike and nearly lost her two front teeth and a pinky toe, my husband was sent to Alabama for four days on business, I had to continue to watch my two nephews before and after school, meals for the kids (people tend to look down on not feeding your children), Girl Scouts and swimming lessons....oh, I could go on. The point is, I'm one person with lungs full of yellow sputum trying to survive. And I did!!!

My life is back to normal - well, except for the laundry. Now I'm just scared of it. I finally have time to just sit down. Don't get me wrong there are still dishes in the sink that need to be done, and dust you can actually play tic-tac-toe in, but I'm okay with that. I've learned that what is important is to enjoy each and every day as if tomorrow might not arrive. Prioritize. It will all fall into place eventually.