Family Fun Day

Today I spent family fun day with my brother and first cousin. We went bowling and out to eat! We bowled two games, my brother played a racing game, and we played air hockey. Afterward, we went to Pizza Hut for a fun dinner! We had a great Day!






Can you tell he likes to make silly faces when taking pictures?



This is the only bowling alley that we have close to home. It used to be family friendly, well some would say it still is. But anyway, they got new computers and screens, and now every time you get a gutter ball a picture of a woman bending over in a little red dress showing an enormous amount of cleavage pops up with the saying "I was distracted!" Why something like that would be put in a family centered atmosphere is beyond me...

Home Sweet Home

We have been back in our house for one week exactly now, even though it is still not complete. We still need paneling and baseboards in the living room, paint through out the entire house, carpets steam cleaned, house siding, decks, and stairs pressure washed, and all decks and stairs sealed. We are so happy to be back in our home! Since we've been home, my old routines from my mothers house no longer work for me here. So I will be making new routines within the next week and will probably post them here. I'm also in the process of a complete makeover to my home management binder!

My mother is currently living with us. She is wanting a divorce from her husband (my step-father). Although I'm not sure if she'll go through with it or not. She left him this past Sunday (due to circumstances I will not discuss on this blog), its been almost a week now. Doesn't seem like its been that long, time passes by so quickly these days.

A friend and I are currently discussing the possibility of studying the bible together. I'm so excited about this! We are thinking of starting from the very beginning in Genesis and working our way all through Revelations. Our plan is to read a certain number of chapters per day, and every day have a brief discussion about those chapters. We haven't got all the details worked out yet, but hopefully we can get started this coming week.

Tired....

All of the construction was supposed to be completed by this past Friday, but that did not happen. But no worries, it got completed on Tuesday. So, I started taking down wallpaper yesterday. What a job! I started taking it down at 11 a.m. and worked on it until 10 p.m. last night! I still did not get it all down. I'd say the bottom layer of wallpaper has probably been on there for 20 or 30 years. And once you get the wall paper off then there is this horrible glue you have to scrub off the walls! My aunt suggested using 1 part Downy mixed with 1 part water and spraying it on the walls. I took her suggestion of the Downy and water mixture except I did not put it in a spray bottle, I poured it in a paint try and used a paint roller. It done a pretty good job, with a lot of hard work! I was just wondering if there is anything easier out there to get wallpaper and wallpaper glue off? Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated! I am so tired! I haven't worked that hard, non-stop, in a while! I'm going to rest and do my normal chores today, and call and set up appointments for inspections, getting our phone turned back on, our air conditioner and gas furnace checked out and the gas turned back on. Then I'll start back on the wallpaper tomorrow. I'll also be pulling up linoleum flooring and prepping our hardwood floors for sanding and refinishing, which we'll be doing on Saturday. I should have a few people helping me Saturday. Pray that God will give us the knowledge and wisdom to know what to do, and the strength and energy to do it!

Easy Banner

I finally figured out how to make myself a banner! Yay! It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, It was quiet fun! I made my banner in Paint. I found me a pretty background and some pictures. I just opened everything in different pages and adjusted the sizes. I copied and pasted my photos onto the background, then outlined the photos with different colors. And then added my title last. The hardest part about it was getting my banner the same size as the box for the header.

Update!

Its been a month and a half since I last blogged, I started this blog with the intention of blogging daily, maybe even a couple times a day. A few things have changed in my life since the last time I blogged. As you know, my husband and I are currently living with my mother. When we first moved in, we were living with my mother only. Her and my stepfather were separated, and with only three of us living here and my husband and mother at work, I could keep the house very well and submerge myself in the Lord. But since my step father has moved in, I have become lazy and distracted from my work and the word of God. It is not his fault, its mine. I really need to work on my self discipline.

We have also added a new addition to the family. On October 1, we got ourselves another little boy! His name is Cocoa, he is a handsome little Yorkshire Terrier. he will be one year old on October 19! And then November 23, is the birthday of our baby boy, Puppy! I plan on doing some research on making baked treats for doggies, so we can celebrate their birthdays!

Update on the house! All of the construction is supposed to be completed today! Yay! But now is going to be the hard part! My husband and I have a lot of work to do ourselves before we can move back in! We are going to be doing the cleaning, deodorizing, painting, pressure washing, staining, and laying and restoring wood floors! Please pray for us! Pray the Lord will give us the strength and energy to get all these things done by next week! We have been away from our home for so long. We are very excited and happy to know it is just a matter of a week or two, until we are home again!

Evening Routine

• Walk Dogs
• Dishes
• Lay Out Clothes
• Tidy House
• Make Husband's Lunch
• Walk Dogs Again
  

Our Meeting

We had our meeting with our contractor yesterday! Everything went as planed, we agreed on all the work that we each would do and signed our contract! We are letting him take care of the hard construction parts! lol And we are going to be doing the cleaning, deodorizing, painting, pressure washing, staining, and laying wood floors! Please pray the Lord will give me the strength and energy to get all these things done in a timely manner! And that we will have good, dry, sunny weather for several days straight, because our roof will be taken completely off and a new roof put on and it takes a few days!

Afternoon Routine

• Walk Dogs
• Dishes
• Laundry
  
• Tidy House
• Walk Dogs Again
• Read
• Blog
  

Morning Routine

• Give Thanks for this Wonderful Day!
• Pack Husband's Lunch
• Walk Dogs
• Feed and Water All Animals
• Water Plants
• Weigh Myself (A habit acquired from www.flylady.net)
• Make Tea
• Take Vitamins and Apple Cider Vinegar
• Read Bible
• Sing Praise
• Pray

This is my morning routine! I usually do them in this order also, but sometimes I switch them around a little. I find, if I can get through my morning routine, my day goes much smoother!

Current Happenings

My husband and I are currently living with my mother, because our house caught fire in the early morning of May 23, 2008. By the Grace of God we are alive today. God blessed us with two wonderful dogs, Jake (American Eskimo) and Puppy (Wire Haired Jack Russel) whom woke us to the burning house. Well, back to the current happenings, I just got off the phone with our Contractor. We are supposed to set up a meeting to go over our contract and discuss who fixes what, time schedules, etc. The fire caused about $40,000 worth of damages. Saturday will make three months since our house caught fire. It has been a long and tiresome struggle with the insurance company. But alas, it looks like we are finally going to get started on our home.

My First Blog

This is my first blog, ever! I have been reading Candy's blog at www.keepingthehome.com for over a year now. I just recently started reading some other blogs about home keeping and decided to make a blog of my own. I am new to blogging and creating a web page, so hopefully my blog won't look too shabby! Thanks for stopping by and reading my first blog!