In The Mind of A Thirtysomething Mom

What, more pictures????

Because I know you're all sitting on the edge of your seats for those pictures I promised *cough cough* , I'll share a couple.

Here's the kitchen before I painted.

And here it is after. See, it's a nice soft yellow and dare I say it looks pretty.

Here's the girls room before 

and after. It's not as dark as it looks. M walked in tonight and upon seeing it for the first time said "This is a beautiful room. Now, where's my bed?" Yeah, it's still in a box on the floor-you just can't see that. ;)

The bathroom? Still not done. I don't know when it'll happen. Maybe by next weekend, maybe I spent $20+ on paint that'll sit in the garage for the next 3 years. We'll see.

Some of you may be wondering what my obsession is with painting the new house. Well, living in military housing has tons of advantages and tons of disadvantages. One of the disadvantages is that you get all white walls, everywhere! I've put up with it for 12 years and I finally decided that I wanted a little color this time. I figured small rooms like the kitchen and bathroom and one wall in the girls room was a good starting point. If it weren't so ding dang expensive and time consuming, I'd probably do more. That and if we didn't have to repaint the walls when we move out. Yeah I'm so looking forward to painting over that purple!

5 days and counting

We're down to 5 days until we're officially spending our first night in the new house. October 2nd is the day! We're working fervently to get what we need to get done before the movers take over on Monday. We're kind of stalled for today and tomorrow since Mr. Smoochiefrog has to work. We've got a lot to do Saturday & Sunday though. All 3 bathrooms (1 down, 2 to go), the kitchen and the shed HAVE to be empty. All the closets are empty except for clothes (we store lots in our closets) so we're good on that. Those'll be easy to finish. Come on Tuesday-I'm ready to be done!

I've taken before shots of the walls we're painting. We've finished the kitchen and the girls room (yesterday). Once the bathroom is done I'll post the before and after. I know you're all just dying to see them. *crickets*

We also went and got M's new bed, dresser, and nightstand yesterday. If you're interested you can see what we got here.

On that note, all my Ebay auctions end this weekend. If you're a card-maker or a scrapbooker there's lots of stamp sets you'll want to check out.

Football Frenzy

It started a couple of weeks ago, but today was when football craziness really hit home. Today was the first Redskins game M got to dance at. She was supposed to dance at a game earlier this month, but it got rained out. This is her second year as a Jr. Redskin cheerleader and she loves it! Shoot, who else can say that they got to dance in front of 90,000 crazy fans when they're only 6 years old?

I took pictures (of course) and I just wanted to share last year's and this year's with ya'll.

2006

2007

The only bad thing about her dancing is that b/c we don't have tickets, we don't get to see her dance. It kind of stinks not being able to go but I got to stand on my back porch and I could hear the music while she was dancing (yes, we live that stinking close to the Redskins stadium-shoot, we walk up there all the time). Is it bad when mom is dancing along with the music b/c you've been to enough practices that you know the routine too?

Happy 2nd Birthday K!!!!

Two years ago today I was in a hospital room praying for my newborn's life. Now you look at Miss Thing and Praise God there's nary a sign of the problems she had that day.

K was born on September 22, 2005 shortly before 8 in the morning. She weighed in at 8lbs 1oz. She spent 5 days in the hospital due to her inability to regulate her blood sugar.  Nothing hurts a new (even for the 4th time) momma more than having to see your baby connected to tubes and wires and having to have her blood checked EVERY time she ate. Here's a picture of her with all her monitoring devices. You can see they had to tape a board to her arm b/c she kept pulling her IV out when she moved. Let me tell you, all those wires sure made nursing hard! After she finally was able to regulate her sugar levels, she came home to a very anxious and loving group of siblings. She started growing by leaps and bounds and hasn't stopped since.

Here are a few pics from her first 2 years.

<<<<2 months

4 months>>>

6 months

>>>>9 months with her broken arm. She fell down 4 steps here at home. She learned how to walk quite quickly due to the fact she couldn't crawl anymore. Shortly after this, she started having seizures that were finally attributed to her holding her breath. She's been seizure free for almost 2 years now.

November 2006

March 2007>>>>

<<< September 2007

Since we're in the middle of moving, we have kind of postponed her birthday celebration for a week or so. We did go out and have ice cream for dinner though. She totally enjoyed that! Who wouldn't?

Happy Birthday sweet baby girl! Mommy loves you very much!

House Tour

Here's a video of the inside of our new house. Please pardon the jumpiness. I never claimed to be a film maker.