Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Fun and Games

I went into the shop to work for a short while, leaving the repair guys at the house to bang away on sub-floors and ceiling tiles. Which is going very well and quickly. Again, it puts to rest all my theories about just "popping it together" or "whipping it into place" . These guys make it all look so easy. My poor husband has been telling me for years it takes time to get things done. The laugh is on him right now. I think I be enjoying this "hire" the work out idea from now on! Honey can go right on working and I'll be a hiring:-)

Anyhoo, after all emerceny crisis tasks were dealt with it was nice to come home and relax. To maybe spend some quality time with the kids. After watching Super Nanny last night I was feeling a little guilty for not playing with my kids enough. So I busted out some of the games we have around here. They are mostly games from my childhood that I couldn't bear mom throwing out and so I have them. They are great games but much to my dismay, many little pieces are now missing making play hard. Imagine playing "Cats Eye" with 4 marbles (when there should be about 40. Oh, the kids had a blast anyway seeing who could get the 4 first. You got to love a 4 & 2yr old!!

So once we determined that that was enough, I found some chalk and we played hop-scotch on the kitchen floor. It worked great since it's all press board right now and it had pre-scored squares on it. I drew the boxes and numbered them. Then we used peanuts in the shell for our marker except the dog kept sneaking them off and eating them. We resorted to hot pads. They worked great.

Needless to say it was a much more productive time with the kids and the day ended with a good night book and kisses.

Children are a precious gift from God.

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Wow, what can I say.... 2007 is here and God is already doing amazing things from what looked hopeless. That little New Years Eve incedent, you know that little water fall, well it looks like we are going to get all new carpet upstairs in the laundry room and down the stairs and the entire basement. Plus, are you ready, new kitchen flooring. Yeh!!!! Water seeped under the wall and under the lenolium causing damage also. Whoda thunk. A little hose problem to all new flooring. Now it's time to go shopping.
But the coolist part is that it's something we have wanted to do since we decided to put the house up for sale. Lack of funds and time left us to sell as is with an option to include new stuff. Now we can have it all done on the insurance and not have to loose any dollars on the sale of the home. God knew what he was doing all along. We have to just learn to be patient and in His time. I can't wait to see what He has in store for us next.

On a different note, tonight we had some friends over that have two little boys age 5 and 3. Ever since we knew that B. was a girl they have predicted there youngest and her together. We'll B. had stars in her eyes tonight when she looked at him. She ran round all flirty like all night long. She's only 23 months old. Daddy already says he's worried about her. It was so cute though to see her personality starting to bloom. J. played hard all night as spiderman, his new love. Shooting spiderwebs all over the house. Needless to say they both crashed hard tonight at bedtime. Yeh for me.

Now to pack up all things needing to be moved for the new installation starting tomorrow. Late night ahead, Endless construction for the next few weeks.