Two Weeks!!!!!!

I have two weeks left before I finish school! (This week and next week) And I am so excited.  I can't wait to be done. After 7 years, I am going to be a college graduate.  That feels good.  School has been hard to get through so I feel an extremely huge sense of accomplishment.

I also have two weeks before I get to relax and play house again.  I can't wait to pick up my slack on house keeping and baby girl time.  Poor girly has been sadly under appreciated this last semester.  As has my house.  There will be some serious scrubbing going on here pretty soon.  I wish I could paint my apartment walls.  They are so yucky looking.  I had to scrub the walls not too long after we moved in because they were still covered in filth from the last tenants.  They still look so dirty even though they are cleaner now.  James and I joke often about what we will have in a house someday.  We say things like we will get all new tubs and toilets and sinks because it's gross to use someone else's.  We want all new carpets (if we do carpet) and all new wood floors,... after forty years, wood floors just look awful.  We may even go with tile or stained concrete. And we will have freshly painted walls that aren't stained from cigarette smoke or other unspeakable messes left by others.  AND THE KITCHEN- will be my special baby.  Granite counters! Deep and wide sinks, maybe a viking stove and oven.  And then the back yard is going to be spacious and we'll have a hammock or tree bed swing.  And we want a garden and flower bed. All kinds of wonderful stuff.  Dreaming helps with what we have now and also keeps our sense of humor in tact.  

There is also now only two weeks left before I can pull out my craft projects without feeling guilty.  They won't cut into my homework time then.  Ah, my poor crafts have all been shoved away in boxes waiting patiently for the day I will come back for them and finish them.  I feel like a surgeon who quit in the middle of an operation and... wait... maybe that's not quite the right picture. But it's driving me crazy wanting to finish them!

But with school done I have more time for other things that need my attention and things I want my attention for.  I am sure that I will still be just as busy as before.  But with a cleaner house!  Yeay for cleanliness!

TWO WEEKS!!!!!!!!

Smoothies!

When I was pregnant all I could think of were two things. Tater tots and fruit smoothies! I borrowed my sisters blender so many times but never got around to getting my own. Well I've been wanting my own for so long now. My mom gave me her food processor but that just left lumps. Yesterday my sweet husband took me to the store to try to find a magic bullet or something similar. I got an Oster MyBlend. I love it. It's so much quieter than the food processor and makes such smooth smoothies. I love it. I'm all set for baby number two! Whenever that is. Not for a while I hope. In the meantime I can enjoy delicious smoothies to my hearts content! Funny thing is...I'm not that big on tater tots anymore.

Emily is walking! Ok so she only takes about three or four steps at a time and then sits down but it's a start. And we praise her to the sky and she get's so excited. She is a talker. All of a sudden she just goes off and tells me all about it. Or she'll tall random objects all about it. This morning she told her gate a very long story. It was so cute. Why do I never have my camera handy at times like these? Ahhh! I hope she lets me catch her at it again soon when I can record it. I hear so many people say that they want to use the pictures that they take of their kids as blackmail one day or to embarrass them at their weddings but all I want them for is so I can preserve the memory I have of my precious little girl. I love her so much and I'm gonna have to find some kind of tactic to counter her get out of jail free card... anytime she knows I'm getting on to her she snuggles and gives me kisses... which immediately melts my heart. Oh boy. I love that little girl!!!!!!

Welcome Home!

For the past 6 months our little family lived in my parents basement. It was great ans it was not so great. But now we are on our own once more in a great little two bedroom apartment in Springfield. James works and goes to school, I stay home with Emily and do on-line classes. I love having my own place again. I like cleaning it and cooking in my own kitchen. I've been busy and I like it.

Emily is crawling and almost walking. In my kitchen I have a set of drawers that goes all the way down to the floor and yesterday I found Emily sitting in the bottom drawer and my tablecloths scattered across the floor. I laughed so hard. She just sat there looking so proud of herself. Oh she's so fun. She certainly keeps me on my toes.

I found out today just how much I can get done in a short amount of time. In two hours I cleaned the entire house -minus the bathroom- and organized my cabinets. All the while with Emily under my feet or tugging at my pants trying to walk holding on to my leg. It was fun to race myself. But now I have nothing much to clean tomorrow...so maybe I'll get to work on some projects! That will be fun. I have so many projects started that I haven't finished. Maybe now I can get some done. Here's to projects finished!