I promised pictures, so here you go! She LOVES the new color, and promises me she will actually keep it clean (which I doubt) but at least if nothing else I had a chance to get rid of a ton of her misc. junk that she’s had in there. This is honestly the cleanest her room has been in YEARS!
Started on my son’s room today, and hopefully will finish it over the weekend!
I am a little more than halfway, I would guess, in painting my daughter’s room. I would have to say my lack of attention to detail is pretty staggering, particularly around the ceiling edge, but oh well. That’s been the case in every room I’ve painted here, and we’ve all survived. I’m really hoping to wrap it up tomorrow so I can put her room back together on Friday and start on my son’s room. Mommy fun never ends! Pictures when I’m done.
We’ve decided to repaint the kid’s rooms. In order to do this, we really had to clean out a BUNCH of stuff from both rooms. Being as I actually wanted this to happen today, I decided I HAD to help them. This was literally all day long. I lost count of how many trash bags we filled, but at the moment they are all still piled up in the loft in front of the pool table.
The accumulated clutter that used to be in the kid’s rooms. Honestly it’s hard to believe this all fit in their rooms before, because quite frankly it sure doesn’t seem like their rooms are lacking for stuff without all this in there.
Painting begins tomorrow. Woohoo!
Alright, so hubby is not home, kids have been down at a friend’s house, and I was trying to come up with something yummy to eat. I regularly buy from the various home party type food companies, so I figured I would dig through my stash of that and pick something. What I came up with was Homemade Gourmet’s Skillet Fried Rice. YUM!!! And SO easy – just needed water and two eggs (optionally I could have added meat, but I preferred to leave it plain). You basically just throw the rice mix in with the water and included seasoning in a skillet for 20 minutes, then scramble the eggs and mix them into the rice. Done. And did I mention the yum? And since it’s just me eating it, there is PLENTY leftover for tomorrow. Sweet. I can tell you from experience that HG makes a TON of other good stuff, too, and if you’ve never tried it, hop on over to my friend Clara’s Homemade Gourmet website and give something a try. I can also tell you that the Mini Pecan Pie Muffin Mix and Baked Potato Soup Mix are a big hit in my house, too. Delish!!
That’s pretty much the word of the day here today. I decided to tackle the silverware drawer. Well, we actually kind of have two. One silverware and accessories, and one for rarely used accessories. Luckily I was able to throw out a LOT of stuff. Amazing how many duplicate items we had. And duplicate of stuff that we hardly ever use anyway. For example, the following duplicate items were tossed:
Now I’m off to clean the bathrooms, a chore that I never enjoy. How old do my kids have to be before I implement a slave labor program with them??
It seems there are so many people participating in programs to improve their blogging, so today’s link love is going to be dedicated to the very idea of blogging. Without further ado, here are the posts I’m loving this past week:
http://jinnialow.com/31-days-to-build-a-better-blog-days-15-22/
http://theredheadriter.blogspot.com/2010/08/woo-us-to-your-blog-name-that-picture.html
http://www.theconfessionsofastayathomemom.com/2010/08/pourquoi.html
http://www.busy-moms-tips-blog.com/2010/08/earn-money-with-linkfromblog.html
Well, ya’ll know that I can’t ever just swing completely wordless, and honestly I think this requires a bit of explanation, anyway. Yes, it’s a baby pool. Nope, I don’t have a baby. Or at least not a human one, but I do have my 8 month old Mastiff, Moose, who insists on splashing like a toddler in every puddle in the yard. So we decided maybe if he had his own splash pool he would play in that rather than in the muddy water. Just got it last night, so I don’t know yet how effective it will be.
