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<\/a><\/p>\nIn the middle of the mountains of stuff I had to do for both Em’s school and Ad’s school this past week, I started a house redesign project or two. Or three. I started to clean out the play\/craft room so I could paint it. I want to do this<\/a> to one of the walls. How cool is that? And I started shopping for new fabric for the living room because that room needs some serious help. And then, because I am schizophrenic and can’t stop myself, I was sitting in the bathroom while the girls were taking a bath and thought, “I wonder what this wallpaper is like to get off? I wonder if I just pull that little corner where it is coming up…”<\/p>\n Yeah, within 10 minutes I had all of the paper off all the way up to the bathtub. “Mama!” Emma shrieked, “Don’t peel the wallpaper over the bathtub, you’ll get us all papery!” So after they got out of the tub, I pulled off the rest of the paper. It is seriously cathartic to pull down ugly 40-year old wallpaper, let me tell you. But now tomorrow I really need to get that room painted. It would be nice to start the week with at least one project completed.<\/p>\n Emma said to me, “Every time Daddy comes back we have some new project to show him! I don’t think he likes it when we do that all the time.”<\/p>\n But I think he does<\/em> like it – it means less stuff on my list for him to do!<\/p>\n J. was gone the whole week to New York and usually that makes for a long lonely-ish kind of week, but our week was so packed that I only had time to miss him when I was crawling up the stairs each night to climb into bed and I only then would I remember that he wouldn’t be home. Thankfully he returned yesterday safe and sound and we had a super sweet date night last night.<\/p>\n We celebrated J’s brother’s\u00a0 engagement. Oh? Haven’t I mentioned that he proposed to JB, she said yes, and they are getting married?? THEY ARE! And we couldn’t be more excited. We adore JB, obviously love Jeff with all our hearts, and seeing the two of them together and happy is, well, it is just perfect.\u00a0 So we celebrated last night. A lot. And I needed a whole bunch of coffee this morning, apparently I am too old for this partying stuff any more.<\/p>\n Other things that I may be too old for…Em’s little ant hill. Come to find out the ants, once they started crawling around and building their tunnels, are HUGE! And crawly…ick. The good news is they only live 2-4 weeks and I’ve already prepped Em on their eventual death.<\/p>\n Someone asked about their care – you feed them a popcorn-sized bit of carrot, apple or celery every 3 days or so and that is the ONLY time you open the little top (and ONLY Mommies can open the top – ha!). And the ant, um…poo? I guess it just gets swept out with the dead ants in the end.<\/p>\n If you want to try something with kids, I highly suggest the Butterfly habitat first. It is very easy and much more exciting. That was my favorite habitat so far. Growing the ladybugs was kind of labor intensive, with the always needing drops of water and bits of soaked raisins and such…shesh. It was too much like having 20 little kids!<\/p>\n Just trying to get through this post has made me so very sleepy. I think I need to get some zzzz’s while I still can. Hopefully we’ll jump into next week all nice and fresh and will have a much calmer week.<\/p>\n Oh, like everyone isn’t insanely busy lately, right? But seriously? This was the longest, craziest, busiest week ever. I haven’t had a free moment to think and I just keep moving to-dos from one day of my calendar to the … Continue reading ![\"DSC_0030.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/4610375893_a17a7a75ca_b.jpg\")
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