If I wasn’t married to Mr.007 already…I would totally MARRY my refrigerator. The one we had to use in our rental house was OLD OLD OLD…it only had one big drawer at the bottom. It had wire shelves…I loathed that fridge! So when we bought our current house we purchased the lovely fridge in the pictures.
We bought it almost 4yrs ago and it has been very good to us. Of course now they have a bigger better model with better features. Now you can get water and ice in the door. The indispensable features for me are the freezer being on the bottom, the large deli drawer and the sheer size of the thing. We can fit a ridiculous amount of food and beverages inside. You can put TWO pizza boxes in the deli drawer! TWO PIZZA BOXES!
Now that I think about it our fridge may just be the reason I am so chubby.
Maybe if we had a smaller refrigerator we wouldn’t have so much food to eat.
OH woe to me! I can’t get rid of it I LURVE IT too much. I guess I could just develop some actual self control.
Good Friday wasn’t very good in the city of Murfreesboro, TN.
The first picture was taken literally less than a block from our house. I had the girls in the basement 15 minutes before this tornado touched the ground. That is all thanks to the early warning from our news channels and the weather radio. And let me just tell you how fun it is to be stuck in a dirt basement with an 18 month old baby. Addison just curled up and covered her ears. Alivia just didn’t understand why she had to stay on my lap.
It was traumatic to say the least but we are truly blessed to have no damage to our house. I just kept repeating in my head “God please protect us”.
I was watching the weather all morning and I knew it was going to be bad. I just didn’t expect our city to experience this much devastation.
I got all of these pictures from our county newspaper’s website.
This is a very interesting video from that day. I have never heard our news anchors sound so frantic and scared.
We were very blessed because our house has no damage and we walked away from the ordeal with nothing more than anxious minds and exhausted bodies.
My mom’s sister Karen’s house was hit badly (with her teenage son inside!)
He got into a closet downstairs and when he came out the house was torn apart.
My mom’s good friend Judy is having a 6-8 hour surgery on her spine today because of injuries from the tornado.
Here is a picture of Judy’s house…or where Judy’s house used to be. From what I hear she and her family are in good spirits. Losing the house is devastating but the fact that everyone inside survived is a miracle. Judy was inside her house with her teenage daughter and 2 other teenage girls. She threw herself on top of them! What a brave woman!
Not very far from Judy’s house a 30 yr old mom and her 9 week old baby didn’t make it. I am not sure of the details but the woman’s husband is still in critical condition. Their house is gone. I just can’t wrap my mind around it.
We are under a tornado watch in our area as I type this so please say a prayer that we don’t get any more severe weather. Our community has had enough I think!
Ok now onto a serious matter…I may be mistaken but isn’t the Easter Bunny a freaking vegetarian? Actually isn’t he technically a vegan? All he eats are salads right? He absolutely adores carrots, celery, beets and lettuces.
Now I ask you….why oh WHY do we feel like it’s not Easter without a basket full of chocolate? I don’t keep chocolate in the house and my kids don’t get to eat it very often. But I went merrily into the Target near our house and filled a shopping cart with Reese cups wrapped in pastel tin foil and m&m’s that look like birds eggs ( it’s ok I got the dark chocolate kind so they’re “healthy” m&m’s)
I also bought Addison a solid chocolate bunny to put in her Easter bucket. It’s not huge but it’s nothing but a brick of chocolate molded to look like a rabbit. Because my almost 8 yr old daughter neeeeds more of a reason to act like a spaz.
Yeah she needs a solid brick of chocolate about as much as my waistline needs all of the chocolatey treats that I will be snarfing this week. Hey I only bought them in the name of tradition.
You know what would be funny? If I just decided to forgo the candy and just buy a veggie tray.
What do you think Addison would say if she came out Sunday morning only to find a veggie tray in the middle of the living room floor? Something tells me that wouldn’t go over very well.
Happy Easter! Have a beet!
I think there would be an uprising of titanic proportions.
While I was out buying Easter goodies in the form of chocolate I stopped at Lifeway and bought a couple of books, some ressurrection eggs and a lamb Webkinz. I also went to Target and got the girls some new spring pj’s and Madagascar 2.
I blame Target. With all of their cheerful spring displays and trendy items. I still maintain my theory that there is a Target conspiracy. They are taking over the world with their trendy affordable products and brilliant marketing techniques. I mean who doesn’t love a montage of household products? Target…just know this…I am onto you.
Feeling a bit better today. The weather is awesome and the house isn’t a total disaster. I opened the windows and it just finally feels like Spring! Since it’s Wordless Wednesday here are some pics I have taken the past couple weeks.
I am all caught up in my own head lately. I have been trying to talk myself out of being in this perpetual bad mood.
I cleaned the entire house and washed every stitch of laundry. And that helped for about as long as it lasted with the dog and kids plotting against me.
The weather has been nice and that helped too. But then it rained yesterday….all day long. I want to blame someone else. I want to dodge responsibility. But it’s me. And no one can help me but me.
The bottom line is I am unhappy with myself right now. I have a plan on how to fix it but digging out of the hole I am in is harder than I thought. Especially since I have been the one throwing the dirt in on top of myself.
Don’t get me wrong I haven’t been staying in bed all day or moping around. I have good moments and I am taking care of my family. I even showered on Monday.
Kidding kidding…I have bathed every single day.
I think the weight and responsibility of life just become overwhelming sometimes. Does anyone else feel like you could use a vacation? It’s been too long since my toes were in the sand. What I wouldn’t give to have a week alone with Adam, plentiful sunshine, beach chairs and frozen margaritas. I would miss my kids but we would comeback refreshed and sporting a reddish brown freckly glow.
Ahhh bask in the fantasy….bask in it. Ok stop basking…this is my fantasy! Hey stop looking at Adam’s butt! You too Grandma!
By the way if you left me a comment or emailed me and I haven’t responded I am really sorry….I am WAY behind in my inbox!
I will get out of this funk eventually. In the meantime I am getting back to my beach fantasy. Can’t you just hear Jimmy Buffett in the background?
I haven’t had much to say this week. Actually that’s not really true. I have quite a lot in my head it’s just a little less than coherent. I am in a place where I am feeling irritable and busy and tired and hot and cold and hungry and fat and basically I am just a JOY to be around right now. About once a month I enter into some alternate reality where my emotional instability makes no sense to anyone and least of all myself. If I try to explain how I am feeling it just makes me sound crazy.
Yes yes I am crazy. Soooo what do we do when we are feeling crazy? We write a list of random stuff so our brain can feel better.
Oh and when I say we I mean you and me not me and me. I am not THAT crazy. Yet.
I am still expecting my monthly nemesis any day…no really? shocking isn’t it?
I feel really FAT…and I am going to an outdoor wedding this weekend….nothing to wear with pale white skin…yay.
I went to the ENT and had some horrifying stuff sprayed up my nose in order to numb my throat. THEN the Dr. stuck this long skinny thing with a light in my nose and down into my throat. It was a lovely experience.
Alivia screamed almost the entire time and clung to me through the whole procedure
I don’t know which one of us was more traumatized
Did I mention I am having intense PMS?
Max ate an entire package of Pita bread …including some of the plastic
I really wanted to make hummus and eat it with warm Pita bread for lunch but instead I spent 2.65 cents for Max to have a snack. BAH!
I could really use some chocolate but I don’t need it because see #2
There is no number 10 but since we are here what do you do when you are feeling overwhelmed and crazy? Any and all ideas would be appreciated.
She didn’t die and she didn’t move away but in June it will be a year since we have spoken. In a way I feel a grief similar to when someone dies but obviously I know she is alive and well so it’s not exactly the same.
I haven’t talked about it at all on my blog because I didn’t want to cross certain lines but I think I can talk about my feelings without hurting anyone involved. That is my hope anyway.
My anger has faded and while I used to think I would be hurt and mad forever I find myself just now actually grieving the relationship. It’s weird to have these feelings now 9 months after the fact.
She was truly like a sister to me and we had been friends since sophomore year in high school. We were both there for each other when our children were born, we talked several times a day and we knew pretty much everything about each other. I probably could have told you what she ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner any day of the week.
We were a part of a group of six girls from high school and I always thought it was so special that we had all managed to stay close over the last 10 years since we graduated. We were still there for each other and we still made time for our friendships even though we all had such different lives. It’s so beautiful to be able to pick up right where you leave off every time. We had all grown and changed and we weren’t the same people anymore but our differences never seemed to affect the love we had for each other.
We have this history that no one else but the six of us really understands. And now it is changed forever. Our other 4 friends didn’t ask to be involved in our problem but they were unavoidably affected by it’s outcome.
We are all adults and there hasn’t been any crazy stupid drama happening but the reality is that everything is different now. It’s not a repairable problem. Forgiveness has long since happened because I am not a grudge holder. But we can never be friends again and it sucks. I hate it. I miss how hilarious she is. I miss her awesome children and I am so sad that I have to watch her kids grow up by reading her blog.
(I still read her blog is that weird ya’ll? I just have this need to know that they are all doing ok. That life is moving right along and they are happy. )
So yeah there it is. I miss my ex best friend and she just lives like 5 miles across town.
Can you tell my monthly nemesis is getting close to visiting me? I always get a little sappy and pathetic around this time of the month.
Do you know how hard it is to take a picture of a kite on a windy day? The things I do in the name of blogging!
She looks like she is having fun right?
After I took this picture she handed me the kite and didn’t touch it again.
Apparently she has inherited my mom’s irrational fear of flying a kite. Sorry to out you mom but it is too funny and I have a blog. Gotta keep it fresh!
Alivia had fun running around even though I didn’t let her hold the kite. I mean it might carry her off to the next town or something.
It’s hard to get good pictures of her because she is constantly in motion.
She did think the basketball made a good place to sit so I took advantage of the seconds of stillness.
Addison stole her idea and shrieking soon followed. Then a few moments of sisterly love happened.
We only have one bathroom and I was always embarrassed to let people go in there. It wasn’t the ugliest bathroom in the world but I pretty much hated everything about it. I could go on and on about all the things that I disliked but I know the pictures are what you really want to see. So here are the before pics:
I am pretty sure this light was here in 1962 when the house was built. Bleck
These pictures were taken after we had already started working on it. We had thrown away the shower curtain and taken down the decorations. Then we got the bright idea to take before and after photos. Yeah because we are quick like that. Note the hairdryer cord on the floor. It always looked like that.
This is after Adam took the sink out. Um Ew!
Ok now let’s see it after! Are you excited? Yay!
I think I am most excited about the new floor. We couldn’t put tile in there because you have to step up to get in the bathroom and it just wasn’t going to work. But I think we picked a really good vinyl and I am very happy with the way it turned out. The old floor never looked clean and it showed up every little thing.
Do you like the new light fixture? We have a lot of these types of lights around the house. We think they look like boobs. Come on you know they do.
We also didn’t have any under sink storage and even though this vanity cabinet is not very deep I am just happy to have a place to put my hairdryer.
It’s always fun to get a new shower curtain! I found this one at TJ Maxx for $12.99 and the hooks for $4.00! I looked at Target and all the shower curtains I liked there were like 40 bucks. No thank you. Target did have the new rod and liner for $10 each. That I can handle.
I am so happy to have an updated space that actually feels clean after I clean it! I would like to get a fresh coat of paint on the quarter round but for now I am loving the new space.
Now I need your opinion. This iron thingy is hanging in my living room above a doorway. I have another one exactly like it.
Do you think it would look good above the mirror in the bathroom?
