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Picking hubby up from the airport today!! We are all happy to have daddy home again. Tommy woke up crying in the middle of the night two nights ago as he was missing his Daddy. So Tommy and I will head to the airport to get Daddy this afternoon. Hubby is gone on business so I have the whole house ripped apart. What was I thinking??? ARGH!! I started by just wanting to put new shelves into Tommy's room. Well Tommy has been asking for a while to have his room repainted as it is till decorated as his winnie the Pooh nursery. He is a big boy now!! So with a very heavy heart I painted over the winnie the pooh murals on his walls. They were a gift from my neighbor for my baby shower. It was amazing. I was young and didn't have much money when Josh was born so I didn't have a nursery for him. We actually shared a room. So with Tommy my hubby blessed me with the dream come true nursery. I loved it!! I will add pictures later as they are one Josh's computer and he is still sleeping. Hubby took my camera to Memphis with him so I don't have it and I can't get Josh's camera to let me upload the pictures onto my computer. THE BIG BOY ROOM: Tommy requested a blue room with a Pirate theme. So that is what we are doing. I came up with some great ideas and am excited about completing this project. One entire wall in Tommy's room will be floor to ceiling bookcases. He has a very small room and no storage! So he will only have a few things in his room now all toys and books must fit onto the shelf system. And when he no longer in this room the shelves will be my library. I bought some quality Ikea shelves so that I will be able to use them years from now. Don't ask to see a picture of my living room right now!! ARGH!! ALl of Tommy's toys and furniture are in the living room. you can't even walk. I have to get his room all put back together today. I am finished painting I think. I painted one coat of tinted primer and one coat of paint. I think it is pretty good. This fabric was the catalyst to the wall color. Tommy's walls are painted the color of the water in the fabric above. This might cause a problem for what I want to do for a mural, but we will see. I found this great website that sells paint by number murals to put on walls. (you can find anything on the Internet, right??) I plan on painting a treasure map on his wall by his bed. Doesn't that look cool!! This might be stretching my abilities, but I want to give it a try. I used to be pretty artist years ago. I might have painted the walls too dark of a color to paint the mural so it might take alot of coats or I can paint white primer in the area I need to put the mural. I am not sure I will figure that out when I am at that point. If the map works out ok, Tommy would like to me paint the Pirates only Sign as well. I also want to paint some letter and spell Tommy above the door. I am going to try to paint something similair to these. There are too expensive. They wanted $20.00 a letter, which is CRAZY!! I am not sure which fabric I will pick for the curtains. I am afraid if I use the blue fabric that there will be too much blue in the room. I plan on painting his little knick knack shelf black with red pegs. So maybe one of these fabrics would be a better choice. What do you think???? NEW XANGA MEMBER............. Hey everyone I am so happy to introduce you to my niece, Sus. She just started a blog and is new to xanga. Stop by and say hi! It is so nice to have a niece you can call your friend. She is a wonderful mother of two little boys and an elementary school teacher. During my vacation I was able to spend alot of time with them. I used to care for her alot when she was little so it was so wonderful to see her parenting her sons. It was so very nice and now I can continue talk with her and hear about the boys! And she even likes to cook!!! Stop by and visit, samnsus!! I hope she will enjoy blogging and the xanga community! I am off to pull off the painter's tape, scrub Tommy's floors and start putting his room back together. This will probably be an all day event! Want to Purchase??? http://www.organizeitmom.com/grocerylist.html Check out this site to motivate you little ones to clean their rooms!! I need to redo Tommy's bedroom before school starts. It looks like a hurricane hit it and there is absolutely no storage in it. It is also still painted like a nursery so he wants to be a big boy now! Josh and I are going to hit Ikea this afternoon we will see what we come up with. That will be my project while hubby is out of town! This morning I am packig up and heading back to Minnesota. We have had a very nice visit with my parents are sad to be heading home. I think we both wouldn't mind staying a few more days. I will post pictures tomorrow when I return home i guess. I never got around to it. I spent most of my free time reading.... I read three books during my time here: The Stones Diaries - Carol Shields - 3/5 The Septembers of Shiraz - Dalia Sofer - 4.5/5 Daughter's Keeper - Ayelet Waldman - 4/5 (This book got me to shed a couple of tears.) Well I better get busy and pack up my stuff and hit the road. Later!!! I will post a official vacation blog very soon. I have more pictures to share, but I have to post some pictures for daddy from today's fishing adventure. I am not sure he believes how big the fish was we caught today was!!! See honey....it's true!! Tommy and my great nephew, Samuel with the fish we caught!! Yep...that is a 22 inch Northern. Trust me we were all pretty surprised to catch that one! The boys thought it was very cool! All the boys watched while grandma cleaned the fish. I wasn't sure how they would react to that, but they all were pretty interested. |
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