May almost always follows April

I'm back. It's Been awhile and besides having no computer we have hd no time! We have been double booking our dAys. We have been trying to fit in as much as we can in 24 hours. And while May hAs been wAy better by far for our house emotionally, physically we Are still running.

At the beginning of the month I said I was going to sleep as much as I could, do good when I could and exercise when I could. And I've really tried my best...

I nApped when I needed..I cAnt say i caught up, but you never really catch up, do you?

As far as doing good, I hAvent changed the world, but we contributed when and where we could. And the blessings we received back were well wOrth the effort.

Grace and I haven't went a week with out at
Least 2 walks in them. We love it. Well she loves and I love that she loves it. As far as making me feel better? Well I'm still not convinced but I'm not giving up on that one. I even bought myself some decent runners. Now for some decent weather. Ha

May also seems to be " to do" list month for us! We got the main painting done with only a bit more I'd like done. I organized my walk in closet, which I feel is a room all in itself. Not because it's so big or anything but because of all that we fit into it.

We figured out a bed for that beauty of ours. It comes in 8-10 weeks.. Which is likely the time I need to figure out bedding and layout and all the rest.

And let's not forget about summer clothes for Gracie and assembly clothes former dad and I. Were really not sure when we would get that done(as my trip to nb comes in the middle). But we fit it into our little time slot and we are pretty much done with that.

So to finish off our month, Geoff has the public talk on Sunday at our kingdom hall and then Packing for my trip to new Brunswick.

So May was to some, just the Month that followed April. But April kinda brought us to our knees. So I needed May to bring us around again. It may not of did all that I would of liked but we did survive and that's kinda what I was hoping for!

I hope May brought you around too. I hope you were able to leave some of the bad in April and found something worthwhile in May.

If for some reason your still looking, remember, worthwhile things can be in little things... Like tea with a good friend, or a sunny day or even little scuffed Mary-janes.

pa

Extra time

Hi Guys!

Well my computer has a virus so I wont be on here too much until we get that figured out.  In the meantime, I will be getting ready for my trip home, organizing my home and getting through this extremely busy month.  Oh, and getting healthy.  I hope.

Anyhow, I bought a bunch of things for my living room to "try" and make it...mmmm, better? Haha, well more cozy I s'pose.  I noticed none of you offered any suggestions.  Thanks for that.  Ha.  I guess I'm on my own...

Anyhow, hopefully My computer will be up and running soon.  In the meantime, maybe I can use my extra time to get things done!! Starting with a New England Clam Chowder recipe from my mickey cookbook... Oi!

A chanhe w

Hi!  Happy friday...  Hopefully everyone has found something great about today.  I mean I havent because I'm sick.. haha.. Always the sick one lately, right? I have been seriously debating if I should just force myself to take grace out for a walk.  I have been doin so good with it, since the beginning of may.  But yesterday, I felt too awful, and today, I feel the same, but poor Gracie girl, shes stuck in here... We'll see.

This weekend I'm actually "white washing" some of my walls.  When we first built our basement suite we did the majority of the reno's in under a month, that month being the shortest of the year (I know, we're crazy stupid).  So therefore, I made some calls that were not thought through.  We painted the entire suite, like a dark cream, or a light tan, which is a fantastic neutral, and I got lots of compliments on it.  However, the color doesn't suite me, and our little space, well, as far as I'm concerned anyhow.  Geoff could care less.  He always just lets me decide.  He says it matters WAY MORE to me, than him, anyhow.  And thats true enough.

Anyways, back on track, I want to eventually get this whole place white!  I know there a million reasons not to go white, but I have one really good reason to go white:  I'll like it.  And heres my problem.  Of all the hurried decisons we had to make while builing and painting our suite this one was the worst:

My biggest mistake, well, design mistake, i suppose

Painting half a wall one color and the other half another.  I KNOW I KNOW.  But I wanted yellow in my kitchen and didnt know how to do it to a divided space.  Looking BACK, I know exactly what I would of done, But we dont always have the luxury or knowing the future of our mistakes, do we?  Well, I sure dont!
 Ok, SO thats tomorrow, I have requested Ginny's help so thats tomorrow's project.

I was hoping for your help too.  Nope, I dont need more painters, although, your welcome to help, but what I need is some advice.  I'm not always a good person for knowing what would look perfect, where.  Once and a little while, I can.  But my living room always stumps me.  Its an slightly odd layout and a basement suite.  So windows arent always placed where they look best.  SO, do you have any ideas what I can do or put on these walls to make it look not so broken up(bearing in mind, the color "divide" will be gone.

I was thinking the curtains maybe need to go, those pictures should be moved, but then I dont know how to make the couch lined  up with things on the wall.. and yes, I need things lined up... well at least I think I do.., I'll give you a few pics of my living room and maybe you can help me... or even SAVE ME.  Keep in mind too, I like all things old scuffed and white(mostly).  If you want to email me with help, I'd love it.  I want to head out to see what I can find to maybe help in here...

This is where you'd walk in to the living room area

the couch has to be placed here to see tv ok-ish, leaving the wall broke up weird

no idea if I should be putting something between the tv and comp..

should the curatins go? 

I think I need to put those pictures else where.. and shold I put something up in between?  the color divide is going..

more of the awkward layout

Wait till you see the rest of the things I wanna do around here.. but thats for another weekend..

"And If tomorrow I don't see your face"

Dear Tousin,

I'm pretty sad i might not get to see you this year.  We had been doing so good, too.  If I can find a way I will.  I think you should know, I'm pretty grateful to have someone exactly like you.  I'm myself with you, and I'm funny with you, and I'm happy with you. 

I hope Grace has some of you in her.  But if not, I hope she loves you like we do.  She will, so don't worry about that.  That laugh is ridiculously contagious, and trust me, Its something you'd wanna catch.

And if I dare say, your the smartest ditzy lady I know.  And I mean it.  Your smart when it counts and the rest is just gravy anyhow.  You were given that blonde charm and you use it well!

Thank you for always letting us pick up from where we left off.  Thanks for the books.  Thanks for crunchy whipped cream (especially thanks for crunchy whipped cream).  Thanks for killing that spider over the bed I was sleeping in. Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you.

I hope you have a good night, and we'll talk soon

Love,

Katie

Ps-"I don't brush my teeth, I rinse my mouth out with soda after I eat. I was pretty sure Dr. Pepper was some sort of dentist."

Sweet like the movies

When I was a kid, as much as I would never admit it, I loved the romantic side of things.  I mean my mom probably knew, and come to think of it, the rest of my immediate family.  I was in love with the old musicals.  Funny, right?  I've seen my share of them.  I could quote a number of them.  And sing the songs.  Doris Day?  Oh, how I wanted to be that pretty.  The songs, oh, and THE DRESSES.  I would imagine I was wearing the same dresses.  I remember owning a pink fluffy, ruffly pink dress. Play dress, i believe.  And I would put that on and Prance around our yard (thank you for living out on an acreage where there were less people to see me, living the dream, so to speak). 

The Doris Day

I would watch these movies and think that there really was chivalry like that(see THIS)  Even when I got to be a bit older, i still wanted my life to be sweet like the movies.  I wanted to hear the lines, that those pretty little actresses heard.  But don't those romantical movies ruin us?  Do we somehow forget that they have writers that take months to think out there every word?  Yes.  Yes we do.  When I was single and all my Greatest friends were married, I was like, aren't you just so happy to to do nothing together?  Isn't everyday good, because your with the one you love?  And while, I'm so sure there is a bit of truth to that naive thought, I was leaving out the worries of bills, small children, where to live, where to work and the like, out.  Love conquers all right?  Well it should.

I do believe, I'll save the great romantic scenes for the movies.  I mean, I'd like a bouquet once and awhile.  Or new CD or a new purse.  Hey, I'd take a chore being done, that I didn't have to ask for, to heart. But the one liners, well I'm not buying that.  Don't get me wrong.  I still think there are sweet things we can do for our loved one, But the showiness of it all just makes me squirm.  I need sincere, and nothing that has been written in a script.

Would know be a good time to tell you about falling in love with cartoon characters? No,  Your right, that's for another post entirely!

laugh when you can manage

Well My dear friends, we made it through April, didn't we?  Was it just me, or was April awful?  I wish I could say, that's that! and May is a new month.  But for some of us, April ran right into May, without a recovery period.  To my Friends and Family suffering with the recent, Please know, We are hurting with you, thinking of you continually and hoping you'll find moments of relief in each day. 

When things get like this, and they often do, if not to us, to someone we love, there seems to be a gloominess in all we do.  I have felt like Eeyore, from Winnie the Pooh.  And let me just tell you, I have tamed it down compared to how I really feel.  Is it awful, I took comfort in the fact that this month, I wasn't alone in feeling like that?  Can you take comfort in knowing, your not alone too?  You can, cuz its ok with me!

All I can say is this.  This month, I'm planning on taking advantage of each nice day, and getting me and Grace outside for exercise.  Thats gotta help. I'm gonna Sleep when opportunity presents itself.  Laugh when I can manage and help where I can.  Walk away from what I can't.  Such small goals.  Such Tall orders, sometimes.




Oh well, we are never given more than we can bear right?  Repeat that over and over, If necessary (and It might be).  Well today is good weather, and already the 2nd of May...