I'm getting old....

Oh, man, I do feel old sometimes....especially when I think about my cousin Diane's daughter Stacey.

She was born the year I graduated from high school. Now...she has two beautiful little ones of her own.

This summer when I went north my niece Julie, and I went to the zoo with Stacey, Noah, and Taylor. Oh, what a hot day that was, but, it was my idea. It was worth the memories though.

Boy did I feel old that day....

Like mother...like daughter....

Hm...who else thinks my mother and sister look a little alike ;o)

My mother, Norma, aka Doris!

My sister, Judy, aka Big Bird!

Colors!!

We are coming up on a month since we have been back in the house. I still look around and think wow! We have some bright colors in our life now, and I am just loving it.

Some may think, "wow, bright colors" but they look so great. With each thing we put back in place it amazes me. Sam re-hung the valance we had in the kitchen, and wow, it looks even better.

It is amazing too that little changes can make such a difference. When I was still living with my mother and painted her kitchen I suggested swapping out the old outlets and switches, but no...she wanted nothing to do with that.

Well, we did and even that made a big difference. Maybe, just maybe my mother may trust my judgement on something.

We bought new curtain rods for the living room and they just play so well off the wall sconce that Sam got me for my birthday a couple of years ago.

Not only am I blessed with a wonderful loving husband, but my husband is an artist with the most amazing eye for detail, and what would or would not look good.

The wall colors look so wonderful with his paintings that grace our walls.

I even keep looking at the fireplace. Our woodwork/trim before was painted a kind of seafoam green color. Now it is a biscuit color and boy does it make the mantel look great, it even shows off the stones of the fireplace better, it revives them. We have a cathedral ceiling and there is a wall that devides our living room and kitchen. We have books lined on this wall, and it looks great...even better with the biscuit trim.

You just don't know how much better something can look until you change it.

Now, I am all for "if it ain't broke don't fix it". Well, we were broke and now we are fixed! Living in a home now filled with color!

Prayers do get answered....

I woke up this morning watched my husband sleep and was reminded of how lucky I am. Lucky that God brought me something I had always prayed for- "someone to love me for me that would help me grow into a better person". He takes such wonderful care of me, spoils me actually.

All last week for some reason I was just so tired, one night I had a sore throat. I was in bed, and asleep most nights by 9:30.

Sam, though he has a much more difficult and stressful job than I do shopped for, and made dinner all week. Now, that I think about it the weekend before he cooked all weekend. Very delicious meals.

I doubt he realized what he was taking on when he married me, he has to talk me off the ledge often. But he is good at it...

Thank you babe, for not giving up on me, and thank you, God for answering my prayers in the best way!

You won't regret it!!!

We have splashed some color into our lives!

Boy, am I a lucky woman.

God blessed me with a loving and patient man.

We are finally back in our home, and boy does it look great! I look around when I am there and still am in awe that it is our house!

It was a long 10 days in the hotel but it was sure worth it. There are still a few things to be done but….boy does it look great! Even things we have had that we put on the walls seem to have taken on a new life.

We have great new light fixtures in the kitchen and dining area, including a ceiling fan in the kitchen which really makes a difference. The ceiling fixture in our bedroom was for some strange reason in the corner of the room behind the door. My oldest stepdaughter Kendra bought us a light fixture for out bedroom when we got married we had intended to just hang it in the corner and swag it to the center of the room. Well, they moved it to the center of the room for us and it looks just great!

The kitchen is also so much more roomier. My brilliant stepdaughter Kendra had the idea to move the bar part of the counter over. They moved it over just about a foot and it seems like a mile. Sam did some measuring and reconfigured some cabinets to move the refrigerator out of the corner and wow what a difference it makes.

I will put some pictures on when I can find the camera. We are plucking away and putting the house back together.

Sam has been working like a dog, me working like a weak little puppy! Even as I write this he is headed out the door to mow the front lawn before it gets dark. I must say again...boy am I a lucky woman.

So.....If you are sitting in your house right now and just looking a white or off white walls do yourself a favor and splash some color on them, you won't regret it!!

Why are they always in the corner?

Okay, we are still at the hotel, but the house is coming along very nicely. Hopefully Wednesday night.

I was in the bathroom this morning, Sam and Emlyn both still asleep.

Look over in a corner and what appears before my eyes? Nope, not Santa. A huge brown spider!

I grab a wad of toilet paper. I work up the courage, position myself just right, work up the courage and go in for the kill.

What happens next...well...a million, did I say million, I mean billion tiny baby spiders run all over! Of course at this point I scream. Then, grab my hair spray to slow them down so I can catch them. Sam then came to see if I was okay, and went back to bed.

Then I got them all cleaned up and flushed the toilet....and well....needed a plunger. So, I came out got on some pants and a t-shirt went and snagged the maintenance guy as he was on his way out for a smoke and got a plunger. I confessed to using excess toilet paper to kill a spider, and well, he laughed, said it probably got under the door.

Why....I ask you why...are they always in the corner?