Around the House...

We've been up to everything and nothing, just like always. Let me break it down for ya.

I decided it was high time I march into the kitchen and make that sweet boy some sugar cookies to decorate. What kind of a mom am I....letting the holiday season come and go and without the opportunity to decorate some baked goods?!

So gosh darn it, I opened that bag of cookie dough (LOL!) and we cut cookies to our heart's content. And just to be sure we covered all our bases, we used Texas, train, fireman hat, and heart cookie cutters.


I went on a cleaning and organizing and purging rampage. Call it a fresh start to the new year or call it nesting. Whatever you call it, I called it necessary.

The moral of the story here is when you take the time to go through all your clothes (and actually get hubby to go through his too), pack up glass and housewares nicely, clean out books and toys and stuffed animals and linens and shoes and bags and all the miscellaneous....oh lord the miscellaneous...then load it all in the truck, then let time get away from you and before you know it Goodwill is closed for the day, then you say oh well we'll just take it tomorrow, and decide to leave it all in the truck bed overnight....

...it'll start to rain cats and dogs in the middle of the night.

I woke up at 6 in the morning and was beside myself. All that stuff that was perfectly good and could go to perfectly good new homes, and that took me perfectly good weeks to sort was soaked to the bone. I couldn't fall back asleep for almost an hour as I laid listening to the storm. It was simply one of those things that NEVER happens to me, but more importantly...now what?! Do I throw it all away or take more of my precious time to sort through it again.

I am apparently a glutton for misery. I laid out as much as I could in the sun (yes, the stinkin' sun) that day and started in doing laundry. I did several loads and started in refolding and repacking the crap.

In the mean time, I received a notice that some organization or another was going to be coming through the neighborhood and taking donations. Hallelujah! I started hauling these boxes out one by one and at the time of the picture taken above...wasn't even finished.

I know I don't have to tell you how good it felt to come home and have all that stuff GONE and a sweet little donation tax receipt waving in the wind in it's place.


But thank goodness for the little pleasures in life to remind me to not sweat the small stuff. Like Joseph's new little wooden dog friend that he loves to walk and feed and play with.


In my purging madness I came across a box of my old dolls! This Cabbage Patch doll is Antony Barry (as in Mark Antony), or as Joseph calls him - Anthony Raspberry. Joseph took to him like a perfect little daddy and hasn't let him out of his sight since.


Joseph has been snapping away with his new digital camera from Bobe Edie. Although I can't say much for the quality of the camera, I don't think it matters since the subject matter is questionable anyway. I could have showed you the tabletop, super duper up close bowl of pennies, sideways uber blurry rug, half of a hand from his viewpoint in the stroller, etc, etc...but this was the one of daddy reading is the one I thought you would like best.


Say cheese! Or not. (There's Antony up there in the back!)


Oh boy was this a fun one! This birdhouse has been in the making for months! We started it and put it aside to let it dry and I forgot about it. I sprayed it with clear coat and put it aside to let it dry and forgot about it. Et cetera.

We finally got out and collected a hand full of sticks to complete our project and glued the night away a couple of nights ago. I need to cut a door and fill it with birdseed and we'll be done....BUT....


....how on earth am I supposed to put this sweet purple hand print outside to weather the elements?! Seriously! Those turquoise and pink brushstrokes are too pretty to let some unknowing, unappreciative birds poop all over them! (That was his idea too...he is a hand print fiend. There is one on each side.)

I think this one may go in the china cabinet for a spell. Just until I feel ready to let it go to the birds.

HA!!

(Next up...Baby Girl stuff!)