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Well Hello, Darlin’ ….

February 27, 2013 By Kim Filed Under family

Sooo, it has been a while. A long, long, incredibly too long while since my last pop in. I have a confession to make … I’ve been going to bed at a relatively reasonable time the last several months which kills anytime I had to blog. Now not so early that I’m down when the kids go to bed, but early enough that 4:15 in the morning isn’t too painful.

That has become my time. Four am is too early – and I seriously feel frazzled if I get up at 4:30 – and with my borderline OCD, it has to be what I consider a “round” number – so 4:15 is perfect. That gives me time to get up, wake up, shower, dress, face, hair – even shoes are on my feet – eat breakfast, make 4 lunches and usually have just enough time to run the vacuum, empty the dishwasher or something of the sorts. And then I wake the kids! I need that – all of it. Or I feel frazzled.

You know what I mean?

Please don’t be misguided … my house is not clean. One day, I’m sure, it will be. But it isn’t today. It definitely wasn’t yesterday. And I don’t need a crystal ball to tell you it won’t be tomorrow. But I do attempt a household chore once daily before any kids get up.

I would say at least every other night, this blog is on my mind when my head hits the pillow. And I think I will for sure, most definitely blog tomorrow. pshh. And tomorrow comes and goes and I never did blog. Tag me a slacker. I have so much art to post on here – have mercy. It will take me forever!!! BUT I will have to start soon – I want it all posted before I accept orders again!!!

So be on the look out for posts to start appearing … again. Whoo-hoo! I promise to start marking out a time to blog. And I’m pretty sure since I just stated that sentence {the sentence before this sentence,} one of the besties {who will remain anonymous (JLC)} will remind me daily to blog. I know her. She will text, email, facebook, … and call wondering where the heck the next post is. Seriously, it will be borderline harassment. Again, I know this girl.

And speaking of a girl. My munchkin head is having a birthday in less than a month. She will be 5. FIVE! The best part of blogging this long is all the recorded memories – and five years ago was a long time ago! I have decided that I’m going to decorate the house early for her party {and the boys’ too when their birthday months rolls around.} All March-long will be Emme’s month. And the girl is excited!

She wants “a LalaLoopsy rainbow party!” I truly have absolutely no idea what that means – other than the LalaLoopsy people are crazy in colors so I’m going to run with it. For a few weeks, I’ve been on the lookout for tissue, flowers, beads, paper lanterns, ribbons and sparkly paper. I think I want to do something like this over the kitchen table ….

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She has other request for this party other than a rainbow LalaLoopsy party … she wants it to be all girls. {Sorry Wheeler boys, you might be jailed in your room for a few hours that day!} She wants to wear a shirt with a LalaLoopsy character on it during the party. She wants “hot turkey sandwiches” – {I have no idea where that came from?} And the girl wants to paint at her party. ??? Well, okay! Someone else I know that is having a LalaLoopsy party this up coming weekend gave me a great idea for some painting fun with the kids.

So a painting we will be doing under our rainbow of tissue, ribbon and paper lanterns as we eat our hot turkey sandwiches with our female homies admiring Emme in her new LalaLoopsy shirt!!

Fun Times!!!

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Thanksgiving 2012 ….

November 24, 2012 By Kim Filed Under joys of motherhood

…. has come and gone! Yet again, it seems another year is coming to a close. I have learned a big lesson over the past 7 years. If you want to time to speed up – have children. I am amazed at how fast each day, week and year passes by. And it just gets faster and faster.

I was excited this year because Carson and Lawson had the infamous turkey project! As with Hudson, I asked each child what they wanted their turkey disguised as. Carson was so funny about it. He originally said an alligator, but it changed about 8 times. He finally said a “bushy tree.” I think because of all the older cartoons they watch will show characters disguised as a bush. You know what I’m talking about. They will have the twinkle toes and it is usually someone like Scooby or Shaggy hiding from something scary.

Carson colored his turkey. And he tore the strips to make the trunk! I’m not going to deny cutting out the leaves, but he wrinkled them up and glued them down.

The overall effect of the leaves were awesome ….

It definitely had the 3D effect going on. He was so concerned about losing leaves that he carried it in and refused to put it in his backpack. I just hope they make it back in 1 piece. After helping the boys this year, I have concluded that after Em makes one next year, we will FOR SURE be framing all of these in some kind of LARGE montage to be pulled out every year during the month of November.

hehe! I love it!

Now, Lawson on the other hand …. is just not having as much fun with this project as I am. If you know Lawson, you would not be surprised. Our convo went something like this …..

“Lawson come here! We need to figure out what your turkey’s disguise is going to be!”

“THAT is a piece of paper with a turkey printed on it.”

“Yes, it is. Now what do you want to dress him up like?”

“Turkeys do not dress up.”

“Seriously, real turkeys do NOT dress up. But this is pretend. And your pretend turkey needs to dress up! He needs a good costume to hide. He is afraid he is going to be eaten!”

“It is a piece of paper! It does not think about anything. And I am not hungry enough to eat paper!!!”

“LAWSON! JUST TELL ME SOMETHING OR SOMEBODY TO PUT ON TOP OF THIS STUPID TURKEY!”

“Albert Einstein. And we are not suppose to say stupid.”

The glue was still wet {that is the blue stuff.} We used what we could find for Einstein’s hair. It was definitely wild. And notice his blood shot eye. Lawson felt it was significant.

We, I mean, I did up a tie. with a collar. Now it is important to recognize the coloring job. When I asked Lawson about it, he gave me the stink eye. Seriously, this is the part of kindergarten this little dude hates.

As soon as we were done, I said something like “ta dah! Whatcha think?”

“Will I have to do this stuff in high school?”

haha!!!

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Popping in . . .

October 16, 2012 By Kim Filed Under keeping it real, something like decorating

I thought I better pop in and tell you guys “hi!” Just so you know I’m not missing or dead!! Jamie, my Craigs List Whisperer friend, is probably falling out of her chair right now because I’m blogging. She likes to casually remind me that it has been a while since I’ve been on here. I sometimes try to beat her to the punch and “remind” her that it has been a while since I blogged and that I need to post. She tries to be all like “whatever” and just blows me off. But I got her number. I’m reading her mind. I know she is thinking, For the love of all things Christmas, red and lime green – let your readers know you are ALIVE! So, ….

TA-DAHH!

I’m here and alive! And busy like some crazed maniac! Okay, so I failed miserably with my personal date of October 1 being the completion date of the limited edition Christmas art. But my new goal is November 1 – and I’m actually thinking I will actually meet the goal! Now, of course since I said that ….. I probably won’t. So, after reading this paragraph, forget what you read. That will either cancel it out and I will finish them all by November 1 or I won’t, but you will will not remember that I said it was my goal since you forgot about this paragraph!

Yeah, now that I’ve confused you all with that little mind game, let’s move on to some other stuff!

I decorated for Halloween a few weeks ago. I didn’t go all that crazy this year. For one, my kids {aka EMME} wanted some scarier stuff. I don’t really do scary – I like the cutesy Halloween stuff. I pulled out all my pumpkins and Dept 56 village, but kept it at a minimum. I spent about 10 bucks {no joke} on a couple of small skulls and a pack of skeleton hands at Michaels and got this crazy mess ….

I already had the spanish moss, moose moss and the stones {all from Hobby Lobby.} I had saw something like this on pinterest – from Pottery Barn. It was an apothecary jar with some spanish moss and several of the skulls all which way. I think I might have taken it to the next step of creep factor – needless to say, Ems loved it.

Funny {and true} story …. the day I made these, I left them sitting on the dresser that sits behind my couch because I wanted to really clean off my mantel really well. {I need to leave out the part where I tell you there was so much dust on the mantel that I should have left it there for the creepy, haunted house effect.} That night, after the kids were in the bed and the house was dead silent, I came down the stairs. There was only one light on in the living room. It was the lamp that is between the green chairs {I’m telling this story as if you have all been in my house and know exactly what I’m talking about, okay?} The green chairs face the sofa. So the lamp was shining through the hurricanes with the creepy skulls/boney hands in them. When I stepped off the last step, I looked over and saw those things – I for real screamed. And not just any scream. A scream you would give out to an intruder in your house wielding a chain saw! Pretty sure my heart stopped for a few seconds. It was so bad that I immediately spun those things around to face the back of the couch. Only, when I started picking up toys a few seconds later on the other side of the couch, ….. I made freakin’ eye contact with the skull that has his hands on his face {not the one that has the let me out look and is pressing his hands on the glass jar!!} I immediately cleaned the mantel and got those jokers put away at a higher spot so that I could avoid anymore face to face time with them.

That morning Em told me that we needed to add a pretend spider crawling out of the eye socket.

{maybe next year.}

I ended up not doing my legs this year ….

And it is mainly because in the spring I started a topiary in this urn. Yeah, I know – ivy topiaries are dated. But let me tell you that I received a personal call from 1994 and he told me I could keep my topiary because it looked so good. Now, THAT is saying something! haha! Seriously, I’m excited to be able to string Christmas lights on it!!! I know, sort of lame – but hey, it is the little things! I have tried artificial trees and they never look right or good. So, I thought I would try the topiary this year. I will post pictures once that season rolls around. Needless to say, I’m excited about Christmas this year.

And speaking of Christmas, November 1 is awfully close – I got to go paint.

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