Yes, yes, I am still alive! And, in all honesty, I'm doing well. We have seemingly gotten over the last bout of illness [knock on wood] with the exception of a couple coughs here and there. My head is much clearer, my throat is no longer on fire, my nose is no longer raw. The worst part, at this moment, may be my chapped lips. And I can deal with that just fine.
Chapter 2: April Fools
Did anyone have any fun pranks on Friday? I didn't really try hard, but I did "borrow" a photo from a preggo friend of her postitive tests and I (1) posted it on Facebook and (2) sent it to the hubs. Within moments, my facebook notifications exploded, as did my phone with texts from friends. I got chewed out by a couple for posting on facebook without telling them, and my husband's reaction was quite calm. Haha. He did call me a jerk once I shared the Aprils Fool part! However, I am officially not pregnant. At all. Praise God! As much as I love little ones, I am fairly certain that I would end up in a padded room. My sister even called me on Friday to ask if I was preggo, and when I said no, she said "Thank God"...lol.
Chapter 3: Mural Finally
While having April Fools fun, I also hung out with a good friend and her kiddos. We spend the day at her mom's house where I was hired to paint a mural on a cabinet that she had gotten. The cabinet was handmade by someone she knew, so what better than to have a painting added on, right? It was a paying job, which felt good. And she loved it, which made it even better. She sent me some photos of landscapes that she liked, so I combined some of the elements to create this:
Chapter 4: Weekend Madness
After finishing the mural, we took the kids to my mom who offered to watch them both from Friday night until Sunday afternoon! Whooo hoo! And, boy, did we have plans for the weekend. Friday night, we continued with our Lent project of "giving up" material possessions. We went into the playroom in the basement and piece by piece, decided if we were going to (1) keep, (2) garage sale, or (3) trash each item. I believe that by the time we were done, we had over 15 plastic grocery bags of stuff for the garage sale and three trash cans full of trash. Don't worry, there is still more than enough stuff in there for the kids to be entertained for a long long time. When we had the room entirely empty, we called it quits for the night and watched a movie.
On Saturday, we woke up fairly early, had a quick breakfast (I love that the hubs cooks) and got to work. Jose headed to Lowe's and bought a ton of lumber while I began to do some deep deep cleaning. He came home and built a shelf in the pantry for the canned food (the plastic shelves we had were sagging) while I kept cleaning.
Then, we removed the chairs from our living room (one went to our bedroom, one went to the garage sale) and threw the rug to the basement before going out for a relaxing lunch. We felt that we deserved a little treat, so Flat Top it was. Then, we went to buy a rug. Our goal was a cheap one from Big Lots. Instead, we spent about twice what I hoped for (my goal was less than $75), but still got a great bargain. We ended up getting a rug at Menards, that was on sale. They only had the display left and when the employee took it off display, the corner got snagged and became unraveled about a half inch. We ended up getting it for $120 instead of the price listed of$150, so I decided to just do it. And I'm glad we did. I love love love it! After adding the two chairs that we had in our basement (that we got a year or so ago from a yard sale for $10 each!), our living room has become new again! Jose has big plans soon to strip the trim, stain it to match the stain in the dining room, and we will be painting...probably a robin egg blue...but for now, here it is...
Jose worked on building a large shelf in our toy room to block the kids from this huge concrete and metal thing that's sticking up in back corner (we think it was once where the water heater was) and I had to "phone a friend" to help get a couple pieces of plywood for the project. We had a ton of giggles because the boards had to go on top of her car/SUV/station wagon vehicle and it was quite the exciting drive. Thank goodness we live less than a half mile from Lowes! Then, she was awesome and made pizza for us at our house while Jose finished the project and began the next. As the night continued, we got the shelf in place, a frame around the sump pump (which will soon have boards across it to protect the kids from the pump and the pump from the kids), and re-assembled the room.
Then, we finished a movie and went to bed.
Chapter 5: Hop on over to Sunday
Welp, we overslept and didn't go to church. Instead, we went straight to my mom's for lunch. Then, we drove about 20 minutes to the next town east and went to see Hop with the kids. Cute movie, but Teo was quite ornery during a good portion of it. He did end up falling asleep, just in time to wake up for the entire drive home. Then, dinner and I went to church for our Lenten series. I was special enough to even have the mic for about five minutes or so and explain my role with the Fort Wayne Fatherhood Coalition and Anchor Community Church.
Chapter 6: Hello Monday
Back to life. Real world. Work. Hoping to get this week pretty much done by Wednesday night so that I get to clean Thursday and Friday..we'll see. Oh, and I'm going to try to keep blogging through this insanity...
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