Come Spring

I love the fact that it is now daylight longer. Spring is just around the corner and I will say "Welcome bright warm and sunny days" and "Goodbye you ole' dreary gray days!" Boy, I can't wait! Even though it seems so far away I know it is just around the corner. It is 12:16 in the afternoon and the sun is just starting to shine through the blanket of gray up in the sky. It is supposed to be a high of 42 today. We were hit with a snow storm this past weekend. It lasted 2 days. Depressing yes. If it were not for the snow piled in the driveway, the girls could be out enjoying the warm fresh air, as they ride their bikes.

With the warmer weather around the corner I have a lot of things to accomplish. A long list of things actually. A list that I have been adding to for the last 2 years. I finally stopped babysitting, after 2 years. Ahhh.. it is so nice not to be babysitting anymore. So now, the list I have been making and only dreaming about accomplishing, will soon become a reality. I hope. This list includes a lot of painting. I hope to finally finish my sunroom this year. Babysitting on a daily basis kept me from getting any project done. Ahhhh, yes - it is so good not to be babysitting anymore. Do I miss the money? Yes! I know I will especially miss it when garage sales start. But oh well, I have done without before, I am doing without now, and I will do without then. The girls will just have to start using their own money if they want something bad enough. After all, most of what I bought was for them. It's not like they are lacking anything.

So anyway, back to my list. I also need to paint my laundry room closet, need to repaint my kitchen, my bathroom, and both living rooms. (never ever, ever, ever, ever, use flat paint in your kitchen or bathroom.. or any room in your house for that matter, especially if you have kids. It stains very well, and will not clean well at all) So, not only do I have all the walls to paint (or rather re-paint) but I also have a 4.00 sofa table (garage sale find of course) that I would like to sand down and redo. Amongst all that, I have tons of other "small stuff" to do. So yes, I have a lot of work ahead of me. I have been sick for the last 2 weeks. First it was the flu and while I was suffering with that I got a stomach virus on top of that. I was well enough to go to Columbus for 1 weekend to help my sis and bro-in-law to move from their apartment (you would never guess the amount of stuff they had stuffed in that apartment. When I seen the amount of "piled up to the ceiling row after row" of boxes I almost fainted! *gasp*) into a beautiful home. Anyways, I was well enough to go help only to come home and get sick a day later. So I have been sick all week again with a horrid sinus and upper respitory infection and had plenty of time to dream about things that need done. On top of that Emma and Abbi got sick and now Jonathan is feeling it too. My poor sweetheart! *sigh

Anyways, off I go to get these demanding kids something to eat. :)

Daddy, do you want Strawberries on your eggs?

Abigail loves spicing her food up. She loves dipping her food in one sauce or another. The other day, as she was sipping on her Strawberry Banana Milkshake, she was chattering about when all of a sudden she stops in mid sentence, her eyes getting big and her brows on the rise, ... ( by the look on her face I knew she had concocted some great idea or another)

Abigail: hey mommy... I know what! How about we put Strawberries on our eggs!

mommy: ummm... I don't think so. That would be gross, don't you think?

Abigail: nooo.... [in a "as a matter-of-fact" tone] it's like putting candy on it!!

mommy: HAHA (too cute!)

When daddy comes home from work in the evenings, most day's Abbi tells him what's on her menu and off she goes to her Dora Kitchen to "cook" a meal for daddy. So when he came home that evening and barely made it through the door Abbi informed him she was going to cook him eggs. As she takes off down the hallway, about half way she spins around and asks, "daddy... do you want Strawberries on your eggs?"