Back to reality!

Well...our shopping trip is over and we're back to reality. What a wonderful time we had...we spent ALL our money (and more!) We got to eat out, Mexican and Chinese...YUM! I took the picture of my sister's orange bathroom for Sara! I found this beautiful, beautiful quilt for Abby's bed(when she gets a room and has room for a big bed!) I LOVE it...TJ Maxx, it was just what I was looking for! NOW, I need all you smart ladies' opinions on what color I will paint the room. Should it be mauve, pink or yellow...we also got dragonfly sheets to go with it! I also got an adorable,pink, 3-shelf unit with princess figures on the side for 10$ at the Christmas Tree Shop! The only downfall of my trip was that my husband called me to say that Jonathan REALLLY wanted to go with his grandparents to Jillian's graduation at Marantha. He's going to miss 6 days of school and going to be gone from me for 10 days...I wasn't home to get him ready, so I can only imagine what he packed!?! I really had to ask God for peace because I was VERY worried to let him go so far without me...I spent a wakeful night, but I'm OK today. Pray for his safety. I did get to meet him in St. George for a hug on my way back.

Girls road trip!!

I'm so excited....Ashley and I and our friends, Eva and Laura Hodder are heading to Maine bright and early Friday morning on a shopping trip!! No husbands, no housework, no little children!! We're going to spend Friday and Saturday night at my sister's in Gardiner-Saturday we're leaving my little nephew with a friend and all the girls are going to hit Freeport and Portland. We'll leave for home first thing Sunday morning...it should be a great time! Pray for safety on the roads.

FLOWERS...

These are my first flowers of the year...beautiful purple crocuses.

Well, we have someone putting new drywall on our living room ceiling. This means that my couch is in my dining room, my arm chair is in the kitchen, the piano is in the hallway...this is the second day like that....knowing my need for unclutteredness...need I say more. Our hope is, is that the Lord has finally put us in a position where we can move to a house more suited to our family's needs, therefore, we're preparing the house to be put up for sale. We will wait and see what transpires... After looking at Sara's orange walls....I think I may try orange somewhere in the new house,when I find one!!

At the church we attended before going to JLBC, we hung around with Ruth and Rudy Poirier and their 2 boys who were Jon and Jake's ages. We used to spend quite alot of time together, but don't get to see them much anymore. I stopped to see her today, they just moved into a new house a few months ago...it's really cute. Ruth and I are great friends and always seem to just pick up where we left off, even though months go in between times that we see each other. One thing I love about Ruth is that she LOVES SHOES!! Why is this good for me you may ask...well, we both wear the same size and even though I haven't seen her in a few months...she had a pair of shoes waiting for me to take home with me!! Can't have a better friend than that! She also loves to shop like I do, but she says that now that she has her new house, she can't shop anymore...I'm not quite sure if I am willing to give up one for the other. I hope I don't have to choose!!

A Future Sunday School Teacher!!

I couldn't find Abby this morning...I went in her room and found her teaching her baby a story. She always has to have the book and turn the pages like they do in Sunday School...or should I say like her hero, Mrs. Shand does!!

TULIPS,CROCUSES...

These are obviously not from my garden, but it won't be long before mine come out(if it ever warms up!). My sister in Maine said they had snow last night and now today they've had 7 inches of rain and the winds are just like a hurricane...hope we don't get that here!

SPRING CLEANING!!

Well, it's 2 pm and I've changed all the beds, washed the sheets and hung them on the clothes line. I've put away most of the winter clothes, got summer ones out, cleaned up the boys room, washed the walls in the boys room, organized their clothes, cleaned my room, the bathroom and am heading to the kitchen. I started out with making sure the upstairs was tidy as we're having realtors in tonight to assess the situation and everything spiralled after that. I'm a compulsive get rid of-er...I love to de-clutter and get rid of stuff ...so I had an enjoyable morning!!

COUSINS....

Ian Geoffrey and Abigail Monique...two favourite cousins...they are always so excited to see each other and never fight!! They came to visit from Maine 2 weekends ago so that Amy could go Frenchy's shopping for some summer clother. I made supper for them, stirfry, to which I'm told that Ian doesn't like sauce on anything. I did convince him that Auntie Angela made the sauce special for him and it was very good-he did try a little bit. I'll tell you one thing, when he comes to visit Auntie for 2 weeks this summer, he's going to learn to eat some new things:)

TEA PARTIES!!!

This is Gaelyn!


I'm going to do a couple of extra ones just for Jillian...I downloaded the Easter pictures and discovered some other things that I'd taken pictures of!! Ashley has a good friend, Katelyn who is very much like Ashley-silly, uninterested in boys(yeah!), a book worm..she comes from a family of 6 kids who live up the road from us, she's homeschooled as well. The girls have been having tea parties- an English one, a German one, and this one was an Irish one, on St.Patrick's Day. They have theme food and everything. This day, their other friend, Gaelyn, couldn't make it, so they invited Abby to join them. ....they decided after they would never invite Abby again because she was too messy and drank her tea too loudly!! (I'd rather them be having tea parties at 14 then chasing boys!!)

HAPPY EASTER!!

Happy Easter everyone...I hope that everyone is enjoying some family time on this holiday and also remembering the real reason we celebrate Easter. We were snowed in today so we didn't get to go to church...no sunrise breakfast, no Easter service, no Easter dresses....I did get 10 pages scrapbooked and finished off 2 albums I've been working on for awhile...YEAH! Stephen got to plow snow, his least favourite job... Abby and I figured we should take a picture of her in her Easter dress to show everyone even though she didn't get to wear it today. Amy got it at TJ Maxx with a matching dress for her doll! My dad teases that it's a new addition to her spring collection!?!