The new kitchen has been started!

Wow, i never thought I would see this happen! Last weekend I finally managed to get hubby motivated enough to close in the former dinning room for the office, now there is a door on it, and we can keep the kids out when its business hours. During the week we had drywall going up and a door and sanding and spakling. This weekend we have the sub floor going in (we have to raise the sunken living room floor to meet the floor in the rest of the kitchen. Hopefully during the week we will manage to get some electrical and plumbing run and then the walls for the bathroom and laundry room can go up! I am finally getting closer to that new kitchen that I so desperately want! I will take some pictures and post them. That is if i get the chance, cause I am helping where I can as well!

Another day in paradise!

Well I managed to survive the first week of summer vacation, and I only had to have one melt down!!!
Finally the work has started (if not slowly) on the remodeling of the kitchen and opening it up to the formal living room....to all be one large kitchen! I'm trying to be patient but it doesn't always work so well for me. I am not very patient!
I am attempting to re-organize the office while they are closing it in...and that will be a very slow process, but in a few days it will be done and I can concentrate on other things. I just want the office to be more efficient so that things can be found easier and put away when they are around. There has just been too much stuff in this office that isn't needed. A lot of the stuff will find new homes in some kind of storage. I really hope to get everything more efficient in the near future.
I finally got the latest installment by Janet Evonavich and the Stephanie Plum series! It was a really good read too. Now i am anxious for the next installment in the Joanne Fluke Hanna Swenson series. I am also busy crocheting socks for Christmas. If you don't want to know what your getting for Christmas you should forget you read the last line.
Two kids are off to friends houses today, one has a friend over and the other is at work, so its pretty quiet around here...and that's a good thing.
I managed to get nothing done over the weekend...what else is new! I ran around with hubby and kids to different things and of course everyone in this house thinks weekends are for veggin' out! So nothing worth much got done. Its alright I am working towards the goal of 2018 and a clean house!
I'm off to work, its the thing I do to support my tequila habit and crafting habit!

My Last Day of Freedom for the Summer

ok so I can be a bit of a drama queen on that...but it is the last day of school and I am currently scurrying around the house attempting to get done everything I haven't done during the last school year. The hallway still isnt finished being painted (I started that two summers ago), and I didn't get the house cleaned and organized like I thought I would. The kitchen hasn't been remodeled (as if that is going to happen anytime soon); but I have learned to crochet socks, and I have purchased some higher end yarn and I am actually working on a pair of socks right now, that I am really proud of...I will attempt to post of picture of them when I figure out how you do that exactly. I have also managed to get my end of the year stuff done for Girl Scouts, well...except for the financial report...and I did manage to have a great time all school year running around with Kristie to Boarders, Target, the grocery store, Five Guys Burgers and Fries and the Chinese buffet. I even managed to learn about the yarn store with her, and I have extended my knowledge on podcasts, and blogs...I even managed to join a few swap groups and Ravelry!!! Now thats something to crow about!!!At the start of the school year I was going to join the local gym and work out....ok so that didnt happen, I still do think about it though! Usually when I think about starting to excersise, I just lay down have a cupcake and wait for the moment to pass...so far that has been working for me!
I also read the complete series of Janet Evonovich's Stephanie Plum mysteries and the entire series of Joanne Fluke's Hanna Swensen mysteries.
I took a few classes this spring in card making and made some really neat things other than cards. So in the view point of some folks I didn't get a whole lot accomplished, but in my mind I guess I think I did.
I even managed to squeeze in making a new friend...her name is Flora...a delightful addition to my life as a friend and fellow redkneck! She rocks! She can get my kids to listen to me with a look...how cool is that...and she can swill margaritas with me at the local resteraunt and she even likes yarn crafts and country music...sorry Kristie...I think she passes the test for the new best friend!!
I have had the chance to be something other than mother and wife for a few hours each week, and gosh don't we all need that. Sometimes that can bog you down and make you feel like you are always doing for others when what you really need to do is take a minute or two for yourself.The house will eventually be clean, I figure by 2018 I will be able to claim back the house (thats when my youngest is finally going to be 18) and I can stop worrying about things like a mountain of laundry and running kids to activities. Hey, thats a goal to shoot for...a clean house in 2018!Well I have wasted about as much time as I dare before the little monsters....uhhmmmm I mean the little angels make theri way in the door. I expect that they will all be anxiouse for lunch out today as we are celebrating the middle daughters birthday....here I come Five Guys Burgers and Fries!!! In case you missed that they really have great burgers and fries!!! Ok I am off to do a load of laundry and clean a toilet......UGH! Oh and of course text back and forth with my NBFF about our plans for the evening!

podcasts and not being tech savy!

I am tech savy, I will be the first to admit that!!! Recently my friend Kristie turned me on to podcasts for crochet and knitting....but i don't seem to be able to get them on my MP3 player...which is not an ipod....but I am working on it. I am also trying to figure out how to do what i need to in blogging, and getting everything set up to read the way i want it to, but I am diligently working on it. So i will keep on trying and eventually get everything running smoothly....yeah right, somewhere between the 4 kids, 1 husband, and office to run, a house to clean and volunteering with my scouts...............hahahaha

the first

Wow! Never thought I would be doing a blog!!! What has this world come to when they allow me to have one of my very own! Well I guess its part and pacel of life as we know it today! So if you have nothing better to do, see what someone who has no reason to, thinks about the world and other stuff!