It is so beautiful...

I need to get some photos up of the bathroom. We are in the home stretch. Finally!
The trim is not up and there are a couple of spot that need some mudding but not yet because he has to decide what he is going to do about the trim in those areas.
I know that the color choice was a little bright/dark to some peoples taste but I really do love it. I think it will look really nice with all my stuff in it. At this point I would be happy if he would just rehang my mirrors on the vanity.

My weekend

Well we were ready to start painting on Sunday but we were just too tired. We worked really hard getting the last of the mudding done on Saturday and then sanding ALL day Sunday. Honestly it hurts to raise my arm to even brush my teeth. I am so proud of us.
Austin is putting up the primer today when he gets home from work and then tomorrow we are going to paint.
I now have to dust the whole house because it doesn't matter how careful you think you are when you are sanding. It gets everywhere. I do mean everywhere. I have so much to do before Thursday. Well actually Wednesday because I will be cooking all day on Wednesday so I won't be able to clean. Should be fun. Wish me luck!
On the good side Austin's mom is off work this week so I am going to coerce her into watching Mason this afternoon.
That was our weekend. It was literally spent in the bathroom. I am just so glad it is finally getting done. I am so ready to start hanging all my decorations back up and getting it really clean. I am so tired of the grungy construction bathroom. To be able to get my bathroom to smell of candles and bleach again. What a wonderful Christmas present. I know I'm weird. It's okay.
Well I'm off to get the house ready for Turkey day.

wii had a lot of fun

Yesterday being my birthday we went into town to go out to eat and to get our b-day/christmas present. No there isn't more than one of me!! Austin's b-day is in January so we usually decide on one big thing and combine our b-days and Christmas. This year he got to decide what we got. I think he made a good decision. Mind you I had no clue what it was until we got into Best Buy and he picked it up.
Next we went to eat. Mexican at La Carretas. Mason was good and ate also instead of retard people watching. We like going there. We have a 'usual'. Never did I think we would have a 'usual' somewhere. We have been going there for literally 6 years. We walk in, they take Mason and ask us if we are having the usual, we say yes, they bring me an iced tea, Austin a water with no ice, a milk for Mason and cheese dip for the chips. I always get the super burrito with an extra plate for Mason and Austin gets a #3 whatever that is. Some people get annoyed because we aren't there very long and we already have our food. They have just started to tell people that we call ahead. People can be so stupid. When Austin gets done with his plate they come over and ask if he wants the Fried Ice Cream or the Xango. Last night he got the Xango because he planned on sharing with me. He is sweet sometimes. I think we were in and out of there in under 45 minutes. We left home at 4 and got back home about 6:30. We are nothing if not efficient.
When we got home we watched Survivor, I was so glad to see Randy go, I couldn't believe how hard Sugar was laughing. Now they need to get rid of Kenny and Corinne, but that is a whole other subject.
So after Survivor we hooked up the wii and I kicked Austin's butt at bowling and boxing. Golf I didn't do so good, for 3 holes I was a +8. I did a lot better this morning I was a +1 on 9 holes. I couldn't believe my score last night I am actually good golf, at least when the girls are restrained properly. I really like golf. I always have, I just don't like to golf with Austin because he takes so long. Again a whole other subject.
So that is what we did last night. Nothing too exciting. I am actually surprised Austin waited so long to get the wii. I am sure he will play it a lot more than me especially when he finds out that you can download older Nintendo games.
Well I'm off to put another coat of mud on the bathroom. We don't have very much longer and it absolutely has to be done. I plan on painting on Sunday. That is the plan but whether or not that actually happens is another story.

I'm really not surprised...

Monday is almost done and I feel as though I have got nothing accomplished.
Austin ended up not being home very much on Friday which was a good thing. We would have ended up arguing if he had been home.
The whole weekend went smooth. Very rare indeed. We both worked on the bathroom and hopefully we will be painting it next week. I guess I will rephrase that. We WILL BE painting it next week.
Austin has Thursday and Friday this week and I am really hoping that he has something to do that will keep him away from the house and out of my hair. It would be really great if he could take baby with him and let me have some quiet time. I know this won't happen but I can dream.
Well I didn't get anything done that I wanted to and now it is time to make supper. I think he will eat PB&J. I don't feel like cooking.

Weekend Plans

This weekend Mason and I are going to Mom and Dad's. I am going to a baby shower on Saturday morning with Cammie and Marianne for my cousin Cassie. It should be fun. A little girl shower. Something new for us. We all had boys! All 3 of us... had boys... what are the odds of that?
Saturday night I am going to the town Halloween party. I don't know if this one will be fun or not. I cannot leave Mom's until Mason is asleep because we are having attachment issues and I don't want to leave her with my crying child, so I won't get up there until 9 or so. I remember last years, by the end of the night a lot of people didn't even know their own names.
Not me, no thanks, I just smelled of cigarette smoke really bad. It was a great night. This year I am taking my camera to have photographic evidence of Cammie's behavior. She doesn't believe me about some things that happened last year. I don't know if Marianne will be going with us or not, she has turned into a little homebody. Even worse than me.
I had to refill Mason's brag book because last year everyone wanted to see photos but the only ones I had were on my phone. Now Mason keeps taking my book, pointing to his photos and saying Ason, der Ason. Then he has to kiss the photo of his dad that I put in there. Don't worry he won't kiss the photo of me in there. I ask him if he will and he spits his tongue out at me. He definitely has his fathers personality.
Austin is staying home and laying the tile in the rest of the bathroom. Finally! It is finally getting done. It has been a long 2 months. I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
I am also all caught up on the laundry. Now the question is what do I do with the 10 sets of sheets that we have. Who in their right mind has 10 queen size sets of sheets. Sad part is that they are all tan, cream or white. How boring.
I think one of the white sets will be used to back my quilt that I have been working on. You know in my 'free time'. In other words when I can't sleep in the middle of the night.
Well we should be home by Monday at noon, Wednesday night at the latest. After all we are going back to Council Bluffs for Halloween the next weekend. I wouldn't want Austin to think that we forgot about him.

Mason's First Night Away!!

Mason spent the night with Grandma and Grandpa on Friday night. I didn't have a hard time with it but Austin sure did. I couldn't believe it. He did everything but stomp around and cry.

I had a dinner for MOPS on Friday night so I left it up to Austin to get Mason over to his parents house. I made sure all he had to do was grab Mason, the milk out of the fridge, and a little bag with sippies in it. I didn't think it sounded that hard. I had already packed the truck with the bags, pack-n-play and carseat.

Well I go and enjoy my dinner and get home around 9:30 and Austin isn't there so I call him. He wasn't even over to his parents house yet. What??

Come to find out Mason had hurt himself by falling into the couch arm and they had fallen asleep in Austin's recliner. Mason now has a huge bruise on his cheek. The poor little kid.

So anyways Austin wasn't happy about Mason being away all night and had planned on picking him up as soon as he got home from his 'hobby'.

That didn't happen. He went over there but ended up bring his father home with him and working on the bathroom floor. What do you know they ran out of tile at 6:45 so I had to make the hurried run to Menards. He just had to have it that night so that he could get it all cut and thinset so that he could grout Sunday. Whatever. I am about 10 minutes away on the way home and he calls me to say that they will see me over at his moms that he decided he could wait until next weekend to thinset and grout. Sometimes I would like to spank him, but that would be a whole new post in itself.

Oh Happy Days! Happy Days!

My washer and dryer are upstairs and running. They are stacked nice and pretty in my bathroom. I have done 4 loads of laundry since last night. I love it.

Last night I get home from doing MOPS stuff, I walk in the door and Austin says 'Are you ready to help?'

Naturally I was skeptic whether to say yes or no so I said 'That depends.'

He starts towards the basement and says 'Nope it is now or next month, late next month.' So I said 'Sure!' still not knowing what it was.

I get to the basement and he has the washer ready to come up the stairs. This washer 275 pounds and he expects me to help him get it up the stairs. Well as you can guess we got it up after much fighting, yelling, name calling and cussing teamwork, cooperation and relationship building.

The dryer wasn't near as hard to get up. It is much lighter. It did take some more yelling and cussing teamwork and communication to get it stacked on the washer.

It was actually really comical. We get the stupid up there, the vent hose put on and attached to the washer and Austin says 'YOU forgot to plug it in!' I start laughing and Austin starts thinking of ways to get it plugged in.

After much deliberation we went with my suggestion. Austin stands on a chair to get to the top of the dryer, climbs on, I hold his feet while he sticks the top half of his body behind the dryer to reach the cord and get it plugged in. All I have to say is thank god he is tall and skinny and not short and fat.

So now my washer and dryer are stacked in my bathroom and we are still married. I would call that a success.

Now I have to go put a very tired little boy down for a nap. I might even take one as well. I hurt in places I have never hurt before or will ever again.

Now enjoy this beautiful photo:

How long does it take?

We started work on the bathroom on August the 8th. We are now 2 months later and it still isn't done. So here is the update:



Tile is down where the washer and dryer are going to go.

Walls have been mudded, sanded, primed and painted in the washer/dryer area.

Ceiling has been mudded and sanded everywhere but where the light fixtures are.

Only the corners need to be mudded. (I can not do them anywhere near as good as Austin so he has agreed to do them. We have decided to wait until the floor is down to do the rest.)

I found a magazine rack for the bathroom. (Austin has been asking for one for years)

Austin did his own laundry without complaining because he saw the snake in the basement again.

Bathroom Update:

Austin has been trying to get the floor down for what feels like forever but in all actuality is only about 2 weeks. He has the dry run down in the area where the washer and dryer are going to go. Finally.

Since the beginning I have been trying to talk him into buying a tile cutter (a table saw like thing that cuts while spraying water on the cut), he has refused saying they cost too much. I might have been speechless at this point. My husband was giving up the chance to buy new tools. I seriously thought he was sick and offered to take his temp.

So here we are, trying to get this floor laid, and he gets to where he needs to cut a tile. He sends me to Menards to buy tile snappers, cost $9.00. The tile snappers didn't even make it for 2 tiles, so I go back to Menards and get a tile snapper, cost $30.00. I laughed when I saw him try to use this contraption. I think he broke more tiles than actually got cut.

I find myself at Lowes on Sunday after seeing the cutest little baby (a whole other story all in itself). So I am at Lowes and he tells me to get a new snapper. Well right beside the snappers are tile cutters. The size of tile cutter we needed was $80.00. I made an executive decision. I figured screw it we would end up with one anyways but how much more money was he going to waste before we got to that point. He was mad and then I did the math for him. I am returning the snapper we bought at Menards because it is broken and 30 bucks is 30 bucks.

I don't know why he always has to make things so much more difficult.

Thankfully it rained last night and most of today so far so it is too wet outside for him to help with the harvest so he is going to actually get something more done on the floor. Yay!! The sooner we get my washer and dryer upstairs the better.

He really threw a fit when I told him that he was going to have to take both outside and make sure there were no snakes in the drums before he could put them in the bathroom. He will just have to get over it because I am fairly sure that is where the latest snake has made his home.

I compromised on the color also. I didn't feel like driving clear down to Des Moines to go to The Home Depot to get the color I wanted. I found a color I can live with at Menards. It is more olive colored than the grass/john deere color from Home Depot. I like it and I think Austin will be happier with it. Not that I am really concerned about that but I don't want to have to listen to him bitch about it for the next 5 years.

Just What I Needed...

A long lazy weekend...
It was wonderful! We didn't worry about doing stuff in the bathroom or dishes or laundry or mowing the yard. Truly lazy.
Saturday we went to a b-day party and ended up staying most of the day. It had been so long since any of us had been able to get together with everyone that we took advantage of the situation and stayed up late (ha 10) playing cards, laughing, and talking.
Sunday we putzed around the house I did a little cleaning, a few dishes, and a couple loads of laundry. Austin mudded a little in the bathroom and Mason played and was naughty. Around noon Austin decided he wanted to burn some of the old wood that came out of the bathroom so we loaded up the truck and took a load over to the burn barrel because of all the nails we didn't want to put it on the brush pile. It was a very hot fire that we had fun with. I know in a couple of years we will have to refrain from playing with fire when Mason gets older. While Austin and I were playing tag in the yard while watching the fire Mason was taking a nap in his swing outside.
After the wood burning Austin *gasp* folded some laundry and picked up the living room and entertained Mason while I made supper. Pork roast with carrots and celery and mashed potatoes and gravy. I think it was my best yet. For dessert we had Cherry Squares (a homemade cake with cherries in the middle drizzled with homemade icing). I really have to stop spoiling my husband this way he is going to start to expect this every week.
So that is what we have been up to. It was nice to be 'home' all weekend. I love my family but the drive gets old. As of right now I have no plans to go down home again until Halloween. I still have to decide what Mason is going to be this year. Last year he was Tigger. I haven't seen any little costumes that just jumped out at me and yelled 'Mason' this year yet. I am on the lookout though.

I know what could be cuter than this.

My New Bathroom

Finally some photos of the bathroom. The 'before' photos are located here. Even this ugly blueish green drywall is better than that monstrosity.
While Austin is in Germany next week I will be mudding priming and painting. He tells me that everything has to be done before he can bring up the washer and dryer. My goal is to have it so that all that needs done when he gets home is to put in the floor. We will have to see just how cooperative Mason is next week.

Yes, it is very green!!

This is the same tile that is going to go on the floor.
The wonderful light for the shower.
I am not sure why Hyde is in the tub.

The pocket door.
The pocket door again.
And again the pocket door.
We have to invest in an adjustable shower head because this one is so tall that I have to have a plastic glass to wash my hair.
This is where my washer and dryer will be stacked. I absolutely cannot wait to get them in the bathroom and working. Unfortunately that won't be until we are done painting and the tile is laid.

MOPS!!

MOPS starts today and I'm so excited. I don't know what I'm looking forward to most: the 2 hours away from Mason, the fellowship, 2 hours babyfree, friendships, did I mention a whole 2 hours away from Mason, food. I think it is a toss up. I have waited patiently all summer. A big feat for me.
This year I am doing the newsletter. I have a feeling this will get to be more of a chore than anything. I have made my template so all I have to do is change the articles out... maybe... I mean really how many people actually read the newsletter.
After MOPS Mason and I are going to make a quick pit stop at home and then we are going to my mom and dad's. We have a very busy weekend planned. Hopefully We will be home by Tuesday.
Austin asked if I was going to drag it out another day and I could honestly tell him no this time. See... I ordered a new camera and it should be here tomorrow... so I want to get home and play with it. Since he refuses to put it in his backpack when he drives the motorcycle to go to grandma and grandpa's this weekend.
I know! What a brat. Even though I am taking his clothes with me. Good thing I love him or this could be a grievous offense. I think I will forget his underwear. That should show him. I mean really I made his lunch today ,without the spit mind you, the least he could do is bring my camera down with him.
Anyways... so I off to go switch my clothes over. Somehow in the bathroom renovations laundry has gotten messed up and I'm of schedule and ran out of underwear for me. Let me rephrase that. I cannot find almost all my underwear. Out of 30 pairs I can find exactly 4. That's right 4. So instead of being able to do my laundry once a week it feels like I am doing my laundry everyday. Not good when you have snakes in your basement. I have no clue where they went but I have my suspicions that Austin does. He has found this oh so hilarious.
I just keep telling myself that 2 weeks and my washer and dryer will be upstairs. I know I live in a dream world.

hmmm...

So much to blog about so little time.

The bathroom is coming along nicely. I have been taking photos since the beginning and will get around to posting some soon. I promise.

I think I have decided on a color. Ponytail by Dutchboy. It is a warm sandy color. I found a green I absolutely love called Happy Camper by Behr but it wouldn't go with my Americana stuff. So for now I will keep it a neutral color and maybe in a couple of years change it. After all paint is cheap. It is the so called free labor I pay through the nose for. Austin is always reminding me about something nice he has done for me. I love him that should be all the payment he needs.

Funny note because I am sick like this: Austin put his knee through the ceiling in the bathroom while putting a light in. I knew he would end up putting some part of his body through at some point. No I wouldn't have thought it so funny if he had actually gotten hurt or if we already had the drywall up and he put his knee through it. He actually lied to me and told me he didn't when I could plainly see the spot where his knee had come through. Incidentally shaped like his knee. He was afraid I was going to make him come down and put ice on it. Well I figure he is 26 and it will be his own fault if he can't move it in the morning. And yes I will laugh then also.

Austin's mother is trying really hard to talk to me. She has been trying to send me an e-mail everyday.

Truthfully I rather liked it before when I wouldn't hear from them for weeks at a time. Made my life a whole lot more uncomplicated. At least she is making an effort now to get to know me, know me. I think it is about time Austin and I have only been married for what 8 years.

Austin tells me it is because she doesn't know whether to believe Raquel on a couple of things so she figures what better way to figure out the truth than by talking to me everyday. It doesn't matter to me. It truthfully doesn't take that long to send a reply to e-mail. It is much easier to sound interested in e-mail also. Over the phone it is hard to disguise your voice to interested. I get caught all the time. Some people just don't appreciate good sarcasm.

Mason is getting his first hair cut the first weekend of September. I have a wedding to go to in Tabor so I will also be getting my hair cut. I can't wait. I think I have decided to go short. I just haven't decided how short. I am thinking below shoulders to begin with and if I decide to go shorter then I can do that the next time I go down home. My hair grows fast enough that I don't have to worry about going too short. I haven't decided on bangs yet or not. So many decisions so little time. I also have to decide if I want layers and to get my hair thinned. Now that most of the post pregnancy hair loss hair has grown back I have way way too much hair and it gives my migraines to wear it in ponytail all the time. To tell the truth I will probably tell Val to do whatever she wants with it. I truly don't care.

Austin always ask why I drive 3 hours to get my hair cut. Well quite honestly because I know I'm going to get a good cut and because I will already be down there seeing my family. So I guess I really don't drive 3 hours to get my hair cut I really only drive 5 minutes.

When I go to people up here I never know what kind of cut I will end up with. When I leave the salon I want to be able to go home and straighten my hair and have it look good. Nice and even with no stragglers. Up home it is a crapshoot. I went a whole year without having to pay for a hair cut. I actually had women that would go on break as soon as they saw me come in. Chickens!! I never actually yelled at them. I would go home and straighten my hair and come back in and show them how uneven it was.

I know why go somewhere where the cut will suck. Well my hair grows on average a little over an inch every month so it won't look horrible for too long and... well... its free. I don't have to worry about that in Tabor and it cost about half of one in Ames. I cheated and cut it myself yesterday. Just the bang area and into the left side because it grows so much faster than the rest. It was driving me crazy.

Well I think I have blabbered on enough for tonight. Mason gets up way too early. It is like he knows the nights I don't go to bed until late. Tomorrow I will tell you all about my day home with Austin. I know everyone just loves those post.

No Toilet!!

I now have no toilet.
I found out last night that Austin was taking today off and that him and his dad were going to be destroying my bathroom. Evidently he had been planning it all week. He tells me he told me but I would have remembered that.
I like him working because it gives me time to do what I want so I know I would have remembered if he told me he was taking a day off. That would mean he would cutting into my time. I know I'm selfish. When Mason naps I like to be able to do what I want. Not what he wants. So I know he didn't tell me.
So anyways... They are taking apart my bathroom. Austin woke me up at 4:10am to take a shower. I was not happy. 4am!! What kind of loon is he? He was even excited that he got to sleep in. He is crazy!!
He gets up that early by choice. He really doesn't have to get to work until 8:30. He chooses to get there at 5 so that he can get off at 2. I don't know how many times I have to explain that to him.
Anyways... I have no bathroom or running water for that matter. I am really hoping that by tonight he will at least have my toilet set back up. So here is to hoping...

I think I have TB...

I sat at a booth at the county fair for a good portion of the week. I think I have cronic TB, otherwise known as Tired Butt.

It was a nice week. I personally had fun. We were in an air conditioned building so we didn't have to deal with the heat and humidity. I'm sure I would be singing a different tune if it had been the other way around.

My house has suffered greatly with my being gone so much. With Austin fending for himself my dishes had piled up to a shameful level but I could not bring myself to stay up late and wash them. I did make sure they were scrapped though. Nothing worse that putting your hand on a dirty plate and not knowing what it was.

I have realized that Austin just will not wash dishes and the fight to try to get him to is not worth it. After all I do not like sleeping on the couch and still having a grouchy husband. I much rather like to 'play' with him than to 'fight'. Call me crazy. And besides he is starting on my bathroom this week. I can hardly contain my excitement. But now back to my case of TB.

I even took Mason with me to the fair a couple of days and he did awesome. He really loves his stroller and will sit in it for hours just waiting for it to move. Everyone that saw him had to comment on how well behaved he was. Don't think I made him stay in the stroller the whole time I did let him out to play. I am just glad I don't have one those kids that always wants out of the stroller to get into trouble. He is happy with a couple of toys to play with on his tray.

So after me being gone a good majority of the week Austin decides that he is ready to start the bathroom and needs me to pick out stuff. Little did I know that he had planned on his parents coming over on Sunday morning. His mom to watch Mason while he and his dad worked on AutoCad laying out the plans for the bathroom. So instead of me being home washing dishes and cleaning he had me go with him to Lowe's and Menards. We would literally get home put Mason to bed and then go to bed ourselves.

So my house was a disaster when my mother-in-law came over on Sunday morning. How embarrassing. Austin didn't even care. Maybe that is because I try so hard to keep the house so that I can enjoy it. I know my idea of clean (lived in but tidy) and his mom's idea of clean are not the same thing (think sterile hospital). I could have strung him up by his toenails.

In all the excitment...

of Austin going out of town. (He is to bring me something back this time.) I forgot to mention that I am getting a new bathroom this fall. Complete with the washer and dryer in the closet.
I am so excited!!!! I have been begging for this for a long time. A really long time. Since the second day we lived here to be exact.
Austin did say he could sooner if I didn't mind going to the bathroom in a bucket for awhile but I think I can contain my excitement. I believe I will wait until he do it all at one time.
I am just so excited!! A bathtub!! Now that is the stuff dreams are made out of.

Saturday

Well we are having people over on Saturday for supper. Austin was able to bring some Slovakian brandy home and just can't wait to 'share' it with the guys. He also has a ton of photos to show off being that he had a whole day to play tourist in Vienna. Everyday he gets a little more excited.
I think I'm going to fix a turkey. Austin has been bugging me for one for a couple of months. They are just so much work that I don't want to prepare a whole turkey for just the two of us. Having people over to help eat it is a great idea he has even offered to help clean after everyone goes home. I am not going to hold my breath on that. I am the dishwasher so I think I am going to hold him to it this time. Afterall he always says we need to work on our teamwork. I think most of the time he means that I need to learn how to 'take an order'. Now you can get the picture of how our home improvement projects go. Him yelling because I have done something wrong and me ignoring him and doing it my own way. Sounds to me like he needs to work on his teamwork. Mine is just fine as long as he tells me how to do it the correct way the first time. Not after I have done it his way and he then realizes it is wrong. To cover his mistake he blames me on not listening. I think it might just a little bit miscomunication. I am not an engineer and do not think like an engineer. Anyone married to an engineer knows that they are a whole different breed of guy. They know how it should go and sometimes leave out some things when giving directions because as he would say it is a no-brainer. Well I guess I have a lot of brains because I didn't put 2 and 2 together and get 5. Did I happen to mention sometimes his directions are illogical. Well they are.... Now I forgot what I was talking about.... That's right... Teamwork... We don't have any. If we had teamwork my washer and dryer would be in the bathroom closet instead of in the basement.

So we are having people over on Saturday. I never thought of Austin and I as social people. In highschool neither of us had a big group of people we would have called friends. Austin was anti-social and I worked all the time. When I wasn't working I was in Ames watching Austin play hockey on the weekends. When we first got married we didn't need to have friends other than each other. Well now we have learned we NEED friends so we are in a group of 4 couples. Two of the guys Austin worked with at a part time job and thru all of the job changes and moves we have stayed in touch and do quite a bit of stuff together. The 4th couple is a friend of one of the two. We have melded into a bunch of good friends. Not like the normal maybe the husbands are friends and the wives just tolerate each other. Everyone knows what I am talking about here. All of us girls can get together without the husbands and there is deffinately no lag in conversations. We all came from small towns and just seem to connect somehow. We are all transplants to the area so when we go to area resturants we get the tourist look sometimes. Like we are intruding. This would be when the ladies we don't like come into play. I don't know if they think we are intruding on their teritory the more we get involved in the community or what but I am still looking for the right pile.

Tuesday- It's only Tuesday!!

We got more snow last night. I am tired of snow. It looks pretty, but I've had to reschedule Mason ear checkup appointment 2 times. We are 40 minutes from town and there is no way I am taking my child out in below zero wind chills on horrible roads to have his ears rechecked. We went through all his ear medicine so the ear infection should be gone. Hopefully we will be able to make it to the one on Wednesday. It would be nice if we could that way I can pick up groceries while we are in town.
Yesterday was fairly unproductive. I got nothing done. I take that back. I did get a couple loads of laundry done. Austin was complaining about not having his favorite pair of khakis clean this morning. I had to then complain about my washer and dryer being in the basement. I have been asking for months for them to be upstairs in the bathroom. It really wouldn't be that hard. I might wash his khakis next week. That is if I feel like it.

Weekend Plans

Austin's mom is going to watch Mason tonight so we can go to the birthday dinner. She is excited, she just finished her classes on Tuesday, so, she is available. She also gets to watch on him Sunday because I am making Austin help me clean out the basement. I want everything put away or thrown away. I am tired of walking around his boxes. If it has been in a box for over 2 years we evidently don't need it. I don't even remember what all is down there. I found a tote with empty boxes for things we don't even own anymore. Stuff like that can find its way to the burn barrel.

If we have time I am going to make help me finish cleaning out the closet in the bathroom. He said if I could live without that closet then he would seriously consider moving my washer and dryer. He is afraid that the bathroom will be really messy if we move them because of all the dirty clothes that will be in there. I had to remind him that that is where the dirty clothes sit now until I am ready to wash them. I don't know if he thought I was running them downstairs every night, or what. Sometimes I think he is crazy. So anyways he wants me to prove that I can live without that closet. Not a problem. Even though there will storage space beside the w&d. I can do it. I think he is afraid of losing the closet. He keeps more in it than me.

Oh the Joy

Oh the Joy of being a SAHM. I'm sure it wouldn't be so bad if I had more than 1 kid. Mason isn't too much work now that we have the walker. Getting him to do tummy time is still a pain. He just screams, goes stiff and throws his arms about. Really who needs to crawl when you can roll to wherever you want to go.

Everything is clean. I know sometimes in photos the floor looks a mess. Trust me that is all picked up before I go to bed. Well at least in the living room. The office is a different story. If it is on the floor it is there for a reason. I call it organized clutter. So, I have nothing left to do. I went through my cabinets earlier this week. I deep cleaned the bathroom yesterday. I love being able to get out my Comet cleaner. Today I think I will clean out the closet in the bathroom.

Austin and I have been arguing about the washer and dryer getting moved up from the basement. I have the LG front load washer and dryer and they are stackable. Austin says they won't fit in the bathroom closet. I say they will because we have to take out the closet anyway because of the shower/tub combo we are going to put in. It is too long and so we have to take out the one wall of the closet so the whole thing will be coming down. If they won't fit in the empty half of the bathroom then there is a problem. I WILL WIN, or die trying.

He should really learn that the house is my domain and the garage is his. He wants to build a shop where the barn is. I am all for it, but I told him that if he wants that I want my washer and dryer in the bathroom. I don't know why he finds this so hard to understand. I am confident he will give in way before me. Maybe if I keep telling myself that it will come true.

Last night for supper I made chicken and noodles with home made noodles. It was the first time I have cooked, in what feels like forever, that he hasn't complained. I even cheated and used finger noodles. Finger noodles are the same as cut noodles just so much quicker and easier. Unfortuantly my receipe is for like 10 people and there are only 2 of us. That means I will be eating chicken and noodles for lunch for the next week. Well it is about that time. Today is day one of leftovers and it actually still sounds good. Tomorrow will be a different story.