2008 in Review

Got my braces off. . .
Removed the need for my glasses / contacts. . .
Bought a house with MBB. . .
Took ~48 hours to fly acrossed the pond for work. . .
Moved acrossed the river (jeg-lagged!) and created a new family unit. . .
Started a remodeling trend. . .
Stopped a remodeling trend. . .
Met with my doctor way more than I wanted. . .
Started remembering names of other parents who live in our county. . .
Got a few potential carpools lined up. . .
Hauled a ton of stuff to the hometown for Christmas and a ton and a half back. . .
Expanded our family by one. . .
Restarted the remodeling trend. . .

Namaste.

WOW

We are on a remodeling spree unlike any that I have ever been.

We bought all of the materials to finish almost all of our projects.

MaBell and I (with some help) painted a pretty large wall today - it's a light blue gray.
It looks pretty good, if I do say so myself!

I am planning on getting some more walls painted on Thursday and Friday.

We'll see how it goes!

Namaste.

Family Addition

Another reason that it took me awhile to post recently is this:
This is the newest addition to our family: YeagerBomb.

He was a bit freaked out by the size of our house and all of the creaks and moans at first.
He is now in our half bath (really full bath size) getting acclimated on a much smaller scale.
He is becoming a purr box!
By tomorrow night, we will be able to attempt the rest of the house again. :)

Namaste.

No More Mystery!

My apologies for being MIA for awhile.

With all of the Christmas travel. . .
MBBMommy being back in the hospital. . .
Our Water Heater deciding that it wanted nothing more to do with us. . .
Our Internet deciding that it was on vacation too. . .

Well, it's been a busy few days.

As far as the box mystery. . .
It is a mystery no more! :)

On Christmas morning, I opened this:
A scanner.
A big scanner.
A scanner big enough to scan my 12x12 scrapbook pages.

Yep, my honey heard me say that I wished I could scan my scrapbooks in case anything ever happened to them.
Now, I can.

Namaste.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!
Or Happy Holidays for those of you who honor other religions.


This card was CASED from JanTink. Click here to see her original masterpiece.

Namaste.

Hmmm. . .

MBB disappeared into the den about two hours ago.
I have strict instructions to "Stay Out".

I was going to paint some samples on the wall. . .But I can't find the primer.
I was going to play some of my CSI computer game. . .But I can't get it to load on this computer.

So, I am sitting here wondering what in the world he is doing.
Remember "the Box"?
Yep, it's in the den with him.

Namaste.

Sight Around Town. . .

I'd heard about them.
I'd even read Mike Brown's comment on them.

I finally saw one and had my camera handy.
Namaste.

Homemade Remedy

I won't name any names, but we have an issue with someone's stinky feet in the house.

We read about a homemade remedy of comet and since the bathtub must be cleaned on occasion, we decided to combine the two.

It seemed like tons of fun, so both MaBell and OB jumped on it and provided some evening entertainment.

NOTE: The homemade remedy did NOT work. We are still battling stinky feet.

Namaste.

Remodeling Success. . .

My Mary Kay corner has been not so pretty since we moved last March.

There was a hole in our den wall over the ceiling of the staircase going to the basement.
MBB enclosed the hole and built me a huge Lazy Suzy type thing that is perfect for my inventory.
I don't have everything loaded onto it yet, but you get the idea.
Eventually, we'll finish it off with trim and all of that good stuff.

Namaste.

Whew!

I had the last two days off to try to get the rest of the holiday prep done.
Then Mother Nature and the School System decided to have a say - the kids have also been home the last two days. Not such good news with MaBell's finals starting Friday and all of the study guides are still in the hands of the teachers.

I did get a bit of shopping done before my dentist appointment yesterday.
I also did a marathon baking session today - I'm pleased to share that all of that is done!

Here is just a small portion of what I baked. :)

Yep - I'm a little tired after being in the kitchen all day!
The kids enjoyed being my taste testers.
I'm seriously considering changing OB's nickname to Cookie Monster. :D

Namaste.