Thank the Lord that he looks out for my hubby and keeps him safe!

As our remodel continues, we have finished the bedroom and the bathroom, almost. Or as some would call it the ensuite. Ours is a very small ensuite for sure! It is nice to go into our room to sleep and not have construction dust all over our feet! or in our hair, or noses.
We have been working on the kitchen and it is quite interesting. My husband remembered his dad making a ladder jack to use as a poor man's scaffolding and attempted to do the same, to save fifty bucks. However, it did not work just like he planned. It worked fine for a couple of hours then it collapsed with him standing on it, ten or twelve feet above the ground. I stood inside the house looking out from the hole he had made by removing the window. As I stood helping him attempt to frame in the newer, smaller but oh so energy efficient window I watched him fall to the ground. The wood was flying everywhere and the thirty five pound nail gun and Eddie went down.
I reached for him as I saw it collapse but I was on the other end of the window and there was no stopping it. He only weighs about 125 so it is not due to his size. He said that when he looked at the boards, the screw was sheared off, faulty screws if you ask me. Anyhoo, he appears to be okay except that his shoulder is killing him and he cannot move his right arm, but he thinks it will be okay in the morning. He even asked his buddy Scott to stop and pick up some scaffolding on the way out here in the morning so he thinks he will put in a full days work. He said if it still bothers him tomorrow, I can take him to the medi clinic after we return the scaffolding. I fear he may have ripped his rotator cuff but he thinks it is not that serious. I guess he has an MD that I did not know about......

Life at the lake and other things

I had a blast keeping my grandson while his sister went to Sea World camp. I do not think she enjoyed it as much as she did last year. She was worn out everyday, so it was hard to tell. She may be talking her family's heads off about now that she has had some sleep.

We are making headway in the master suite. In the bath area sheet rock is hung with tape and some mud on it. Brandon is coming to help Eddie with the electrical tomorrow. Next will be the shower installation and tile. I am getting so excited. It has been such a long process that I decided it was never going to end but the end is in sight. We need a faucet for the sink and a tank for the toilet, hubby had to use the one we bought for it in the other bathroom, that is another story. We also need slate for the walls surrounding the vanity area.

I will post some photos once we finish. I guess I better get busy making drapes, dust ruffles and ottomans......

Time truly does seem to fly! It has been two months since I posted and it does not seem like it has been that long. Both of our sons are now married to women that perfectly compliment them! We are thrilled to have them in our family! I made cute little hearts for the reception at Brandon and Tammy's wedding to give as little gifts. I will try to post a photo of them. They turned out really cute. I should sell the extras on Etsy but have not gotten up the nerve to, yet. Rejection by no one wanting them would be crushing! I also made cute little fridge magnets for gifts for the guests at Brady and Brittney's rehearsal dinner. I have extra's of those, too. They spell LOVE. I guess I should dig them out and put them on Etsy as well. I have had the shop space for quite a while but am so insecure about what others will think of my things that I still have them all..... The two items are so different that they might only appeal to a small audience.

I am trying to learn to create scrapbook pages, kits, etc. using Photoshop. I am not sure that I am loving it. I guess I will keep working at it until I figure it all out or give up. I want to be able to add my own touches to photos prior to printing them, mainly. I am sure I will never tire of using paper, scissors and my own hands to make the pages but have wished many times that I could add things to the photos. If anyone reads this at all and has suggestions for tutorials that are straightforward and for Photoshop CS2, I would like to have the site url.

I am slowly cleaning out closets, cabinets and drawers, trying to purge our abode of all things that are just lying there, not ever being used. I donate the items to a local charity so that they are used by someone. Recycling and re-using is not a new concept! My mother and grandmother and great grandmother have been doing it for many, many years. Most people that went through the Depression and WWII tend to be very frugal. They certainly understood the need for conservation of all resources.

My precious grandchildren were here this past week. Hearing little man say,"kank you, Mia" when I give him something is one of the sweetest things on earth. He is a cutie and gives the best hugs. His sister is a very creative child. She used about a ream of paper making her own paperdolls and her own paper zoo, complete with momma, daddy and children animals of many varieties. She is quite a girl. She is going to Sea World camp again this year so they will be back in a couple of weeks. I look forward to it!

Spring Break week

It is spring break and just about 17 days until my middle child marries. It is exciting in one way and sad in another. He is a good man and an honorable man and will make a very good husband, I think, but I may be biased since I am his momma. He was a bit earlier than his due date and had respiratory distress syndrome. He stayed in a NICU for a week and then we got to take him home. I was scared to death! I quickly got over that and just loved and cared for him. A very easy baby to care for, too. He slept well, actually too well, and had to be awakened to feed. He has always been a sensitive and observant person. He is a lot like his granddaddy Mc and my great uncle Stelvin. Both were very straight to the point type of people that tended to see beyond the surface. He writes like and has hands like his granddaddy but looks more like my side of the family. I guess I am a tad sad because I had hoped he would be finished with college when he married but he is not. Not even close. The Marine corps delayed his education by a long shot but is also help paying for it. He was and is a large eater but not a very large guy. I often wonder where he puts it all. Someone remarked that his brother is a big eater and I was surprised. Since we had the older brother, I had not even noticed that the younger one at quite a bit,too. He does not eat nearly as much as the older one! Well, I am working on some little favors for the wedding guests. They may have to wait in baskets outside the door so the guests can pick them up on their way out. They do not match the wedding colors so they might not look good in the reception area. I find that blog watching seems to cause problems on my computer. I doubt I will continue to blog for long, we will see.

On The Road Again

I am heading to North Texas tomorrow to play wonderful auntie for Zella. She will call me Mia as do my grandchildren and her brother do. My great niece's are starting to call me that as well. I have three sisters and a brother. Since there are so many of us and some of us have grandchildren but our youngest sister's family is toddlers and newborns, we decided to have this generation of little ones refer to us by our "grandparent" name. So I am Mia, one sister is Mim and one sister is MiMi and the youngest is well, I forgot. We have not started having the children call her anything beside her name, yet, so I have a reasonable excuse for not remembering. Or it could be I am getting hormonal, or menopausal, but wait that would be the same thing wouldn't it? I am getting confused and feel a hot flash coming on. I think I will go fan myself and try to figure this all out. I will try to post again, later. Once my hormones settle down!

Precious Baby

Where has the time gone? Whew! I have a new niece, Zella Ruth. She was born yesterday and we are so glad she is here, safe and sound and that her mommy is doing very well, too! 

I finally took down the Christmas decorations on the postal cubby hole cabinet and am going to deck it out with Valentines and President's Day. I love history and have written reports on Lincoln during my school days, very long ago! And I love Valentine's Day. Zella's mother used to call it Valenheart day when she was little. I am 11 years older than her so I remember these things. She was very serious when she discussed Valenheart day and she loved it as much as I. 

We have made progress on the house. We have started hanging the sheet rock in the bedroom which makes it feel more like a room. Taping and floating are lengthy processes because it is so chilly in there. It takes awhile for the first coat to dry but then the second one goes really fast. Whoo hoo! The bathroom is next and then we can move into that space which will give us much more room everywhere else. Ahh, the excitement of decorating is slowly rising but I contain it as much as possible since I have no idea how long it will take. So long for now, I am off to work on baby items and then to see Miss Zella and her family.

Poor little Christmas decorations sitting all alone....

We are remodeling the house we are living in, even though it does not belong to us. It belongs to our daughter. We have a house in another town that our brother in law is living in, that does not need to be remodeled. Confused? So am I. How did this happen and why to me? That is another issue, back to this one.....

Anyway, because of the vast remodeling, I have not been able to decorate for Christmas for the past two years. Which about kills me, I love decorating for Christmas, well any holiday, butI  love Christmas. And Valentines Day. And any patriotic holiday.   I love celebrating the birth of Christ and love that family is able to gather for the occasion.  But not at this joint this past year. My poor decorations sit out in the storage building and wish they were allowed inside. I wish they were able to come in and play but there is no room. Not for any of them. Except on this great postal cabinet from some old hotel I found at an antique joint in Llano, Texas. What a great buy, eh? I decided that I can just decorate it for each holiday and pretend that the house is in one piece and that everything is lovely. What a kidder I am, and dreamer. Not in touch with the real world at all. Do not look too closely because you may be able to see that the wall behind it is just sheet rocked, is that a word?, on one side. The other one. This is in the wanna be kitchen. It will have to be deconstructed before reconstructed but this shelf is going to take up this space until that happens. It will be the best dressed lady in the house.  I think I am going to attach some fabric or wrapping paper to the backside to hide my half wall and it will also add some flourish to the decor. Maybe. I guess I need to pack these babies up and send them to the storage room but hate to relegate them to such a dreary existence. I feel a decorating tangent coming on so I better go get busy, now! Where are the tubs of Valentine decorations?? I here them calling my name.....