THE start of some fun changes

My hallway has been a shade of Royal Blue since we first moved in... The only change that area has seen has been different rugs......

Like the rest of the "walkways" in this house it's very narrow and in desperate need of change........

This is where all 3 bedrooms are and the upstairs bath..........(don't get me started on the bathroom!) someday, sigh.....


So this is before


And this is the after.......Just a little bit more painting of the ceiling and then cleaning up the floor and the "lines" made in the wrong place and I'll be finished...

What do ya think? Does it make it look a little more open, calm?????

Dream moments

Tonight I made one Isaac's dreams come true... It made his night...May have even made his YEAR!!!

About 2months ago he tells me this author is going to come to school and he'll get to see and have him sign these "super awesome" books... Well that fell thru and he was devastated...

THEN 2weeks ago I happen to take Ari to Barns and Noble to play with the train and I overhear a staff member telling a customer that he's going to be there for a book signing...

Tonight was the night................................................



Waiting in line(we got there earlier enough to be 3ish in line)


THE Jonathan Rand ladies and gentlemen....He came in wearing his glasses, the kids LOVED it... Isaac did say he wished he could see his "actual" eyes :-)

Not 2 minutes later and the little child was inside in tears because "Isaac thru a snowball at my ear" to which I did my best to be sympathetic while saying "buddy, if your hat was on this would not have happened"........ so glad I caught this on film, otherwise I would not have known it was so beautiful before the tears.....

This neat little "chart" is going to **hopefully** end the mommy meltdown morning's as I YELL for the say.....5th time to brush your teeth or brush your hair or get YOUR SHOES ON!! If you do and mark, at the end of the day mom will check that it's finished and you get a piece of candy in your lunch the next day... If you do and forget to mark..............not my problem, your out of luck, if you don't do.....again, no candy for you............

I think the hardest part will be ME keeping my mouth shut and the consequence speaking for itself..... I'm stubborn and will succeed, the children(girl child) the verdict is out.....

Winter

It would seem that winter did indeed come to these here parts......................Just way late............................................

very pleased young lady

We went from this..............................................



To this..................................................................



The organizational freak otherwise known as "mom" is in love with this bed! No more dresser cuz it all fits in the one side of the bed "leg" and then the other side holds "precious" things like jewelry box's and pictures and books and then the door holds shoes, coats, hoodies!!!!!!!

We both LOVE this and the best part is that by the time the second half comes to us "the other bed" the under part will probably be old and she won't mind it going there OR we just wont use it at this time :-)
AWESOME!!

Make way for his super cuteness!

I spent the morning bringing EVERYTHING out of Norah's room to prepare for a new to us bed she's getting today...
This is what I saw from the kitchen....

Then he was doing this, the cute little bugger, I could eat him right up!!

Yesterday he came to me telling me he was "tied up"

This is everything from her room... Note that the cloths from the dresser are in the 2 laundry baskets......... Wow does this girl have a lot of crap still. So glad to have the nap time to go thru things again and consolidate :-)

Someone got a haircut and looks all sorts of grown up now.....






My baby is going to be 4 in 3 short months..... sigh..............................

Back to school they went all snuggled up in snowpants and boots to keep warm.......

Why is it they drive me bonkers when they are all home day in and day out but then once they get out of the van at school I'm so sad....................

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the alarm clock going off at 540 instead of lazy 7 ;)

Or that I love them sooooooooooo much, even when they are big giant boogers!!!