when life slows down I will...

how many times have I said that in the last...7 years?! A gajillion times, it seems.

But life seems to get busier and busier! Isabella is in brownies so every other weekend is a brownie event and there are pictures to take and parties to attend and and and!!! It is still January and every single weekend day in February is booked already. BOOKED!

Donovan made me plan nothing for a whole weekend a few weeks ago, I think I need to do it more often.

a room a day in the month of J

Yes, I thought of that myself. It sure is hard to pat myself on the back while typing!

My plan (11 days into J!) is to clean a room (like floor to ceiling) a day. Today I started by doing 3 fairly small rooms. U dud the laundry room, the hall closet and the downstairs bathroom. I had all my tools with me and the vacuum ready to suck in the hallway. I magic erased, windexed and organized all 3 rooms...whoo!

Now let's see if I can stick to it. I suck at that part.

art

I don't get "art" I don't get how a goat sewn onto a piece of luggage is art. Or how a group of people in monkey suit jumping around on video is art.

What I did love was seeing Ansel Adams photographs. Now that's what I call art.

grandma's technicolor dreamcarpet

I wish I had documented this in photo and I should wait to blog this so I can show you, but I didn't and I'm not so here goes.

The carpet in my grandma's house is well...different. In EVERY room!

Living room: fancy you-don't-walk on-white carpet
den: green 70's with the lines in it
hallway: industrial blue and white loopy type
grandma's bedroom: Georgia peach!
2nd bedroom: I really don't know, I used to sleep in there when I visited and there was always a uber scary drawing of my grandma's mom on the wall so I don't really go into that room.

another one

I thought I would put my New Years resolutions on here so that I could (possibly) stick to them.

• goal #1 is to attend church EVERY single weekend. We always find an excuse about why we NEED to skip it. Really? I can't find 2 hours out of 168 hours in a week.
  

• goal #2 is to organize more, I was thinking I would clean and organize a room a day while the kids are in school.

• goal #3 is to unzip my fat suit! I have felt gross for the last year and I need to do something about it. I met with a friend who owns a nutrition store and she set me up with an eating program and I am going to start walking more regularly and using my Wii for the awesome fitness programs that I have for it.
  

I can't wait to work on all of these, bring on 2010!

BAD blogger!

I felt like I just couldn't start up again, that I had been gone for so long that there was no point to coming back, but I really do enjoy it! Another thing I didn't want to update from everything I missed, well...I don't have time for that so I am starting fresh. What a day to start fresh, huh?!

Today was a fantastic day, I love days like this. We put away all the Christmas stuff, we re-arranged some furniture, cleaned out some drawers, had lunch at Chili's, spent some time at my toy store (Target!), I vacuumed. It was good.

Happy 2010 blogging friends! Much love to you and your families.