2 1/2 Weeks until listing day...

Our "to-do" list is progressively getting shorter. Dave is working SO HARD. He works all day at the office, comes home and plays with the kids for an hour, then goes outside and works until dark.

We looked at property two days ago. Fell in love with a place 10 miles south of here. It's 5 acres, and is bordered on 2 sides by farmland. The back side has a 20 foot canyon with a creek at the bottom. There are views of the mountains on three sides. I'm scared to death my kids would find the canyon, but that it's a bit far back there. We've also looked at modular home plans. So exciting, the thought of getting something BRAND NEW!

Last night I made jambalaya for supper. Yumm! This week is the week of family favorites. Jambalaya, Mexican lasagna, bar-b-qued ribs... I'm a good cook, if I have to say so myself.

Question of the day, what do you do when you really like someone as a friend but can NOT stand their kid? Especially when that kid pushes and shoves and hits and is just downright mean to your children?

To do list...

So we found out today that we need to list our house on April 15th. Does that date sound familiar to anyone?! That happens to be the DUE DATE OF TAX SEASON! Ahhh! However, you either make April 15th and get your house into the spring/summer catalogue, or you don't. Sooo... we have to...

1. Tear out and build a new front porch.
2. Install new front porch columns and side rails.
3. Replace the back door.
4. Scrape and repaint the exterior windows.
5. Put up a chain link fence across the back half of our yard (to pen in the dog)
6. Pack up all the extra stuff in our house to make it seem larger.
7. AND touch up paint anything that needs it in the interior of the house.

I'm slightly stressed. Just slightly as it is tax season still. Wow!

Elyana though declared the other day that we need to get a new house with a purple front door. She wants a purple bedroom with one wall painted hearts and one wall painted cars. Then she declared that we should have a yellow kitchen and a pink laundry room.

Spring...

My children are seriously the happiest children in the world. This laughing face I see all day! :) Elyana usually greets me in the morning with "MOMMY it's a BRAND NEW DAY!" Which is why I love time change. For a couple blessed weeks they sleep in until 7:30 or maybe 8:00. wow... A few minutes to myself.

I should be exercising in the mornings, but I hate hate hate working out to a video. They are so incredibly boring. And then you have to take a shower and there are two little critters who really don't want you in the bathroom for that long. It's much easier to get up, get ready, start my day, then after lunch load them into a stroller and go for a long jaunt in the fresh air. Hey, with both of them and the stroller it's a combined weight of 70+lbs. That has to count for something right!? I must be as strong as an ox though as we walk every day for at least an hour and it doesn't do much of anything to the number on the scales.

One more month of tax season. Last night I planted 160 gladiolus bulbs, and 80 daffodils; today I have to finish with the 80 daffodil bulbs I have left. I am so ready for spring. Today I am wearing capris and a t-shirt, even though it's projected to be all of 39 degrees and raining today. Ha!

I bought a BOZ preschool activity book for Elyana. It has 25 lessons, each with 5 activities. We do "school" every morning now. She loves it! I'm pretty proud of her. She is three and already knows all her colors, shapes, most of her letters, numbers... We go back and forth wether to homeschool or send her to a Christian private school. The latter option is very expensive, but I think she would just love the whole "school" thing. I did. Either way this fall we are putting away tuition money every month so that if we do send her to school we can prepay the whole year. Yikes!

Gotta go get my coffee...